Ghost Stories from Wisconsin is an open-ended narrative fiction project created and written by Justin Zyduck that seeks to reinvigorate the classic ghost story tradition of English writers like M.R. James, E.F. Benson, and Robert Aickman, and combine it with the culture and texture of the American Midwest.
This website has been created to suggest "modernized antiquity" through its design emulation/simulation of a hard-copy book but also through its homebrew Web 1.0 construction (built using the sadgrl layout builder). It is hosted on neocities.org, a platform which itself is an exercise in nostalgia harkening back to the decentralized internet of the late 20th century, where many of these stories will no doubt be set.
Justin Zyduck was born and raised in southeastern Wisconsin, went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spent several years in the Fox Valley, and eventually returned to the Madison area, where he lives today with his wife and two children.
When he is not writing ghost stories, he is also the co-host (with Jim Cannon) of The Iron Age of Comics, a podcast that takes a critical look at comic books from between 1985 to 2000.
He has never seen a ghost.
For all questions, feedback, and inquiries, contact ghoststoriesfromwisconsin@gmail.com.
No AI was used in the creation of these stories. (All em dashes are, I'm afraid, my own.) If these words should be used to feed an LLM, may the unquiet dead that haunt these stories also haunt it and its makers and masters.