www.theoldwife.com

Come in. Welcome to my home.  My name is Goody Winters, but most people call me the Old Wife. For more than 300 years, I have lived in a saltbox by the sea in Salem, Massachusetts, with my cat, Salem, who always seems to be getting into trouble. I am a wise woman, what some people would call a witch. When I'm not brewing magic potions or casting spells, I trade my wand for a quill and write stories of mystery, murder and the macabre (with a pinch of science fiction and fantasy).  Salem and I invite you to wander through our house and out onto our property and read some of the stories I've written.  If you enjoy your visit, feel free to return.  I add new stories to the site every month.

If you would like to be notified by email when a new story is posted, click HERE to add your address to the Old Wife's mailing list.  (I personally maintain this list and do not share the information with anyone.)

[For information on getting The Old Wife's Tales in print, click HERE.  The Old Wife's Tales is also available for download at the Amazon Kindle store for $6.39. The Kindle version can also be read on iPhone and iPod touch.]

 

Coming December 1, the Old Wife's Tales will feature an online advent calendar. For each of twenty-five days, you can open a "window" and read an installment of my latest story, appropriately entitled "The Advent Calendar" (or wait until after December 24th and read the entire story).

 

The following are my most recent stories:

The Word of God (November 5)

The Sandman (October 18)

The Ventriloquist (October 15)

The Support Group (October 5)

The Personal Effects of Aloysius P. Featherwyck

The Halls of History

Advice Columnist

And the Children Shall Lead

A Death in Hollywood

Sixteen

Mystery at Whitewood College

The Girl He Left Behind

Carved in Stone

Murder at Fenway

My Father's Secret

Unhappily Ever After

Eisoptrophobia

Doctor Trumble

News Flash

Angel of the Morning

More Frightening Than Fiction

The Execution

The Surrogate

The Shepherd

The Lady Killer

The Tolling

If you would like to read more of my stories, click on the room buttons below to enter the archives.  My earliest stories are found in the lower right room (the parlor).  As you go to the left and then up through the levels, the stories are more recent. Number of stories currently posted on this website:  450

 

 

 
 

All stories © Marie Winters Haisan