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Welcome to the third and final day of my interview trilogy for the upcoming Gothic anthology, Among the Headstones: Creepy Tales from the Graveyard, edited by Gothic author Rayne Hall.

Full details about the haunting anthology are provided at the end of the interview. But now, let’s chat with Australian-based author Zachary Ashford.

Using three words, Zachary, describe your story in Among the Headstones.

Spooky, tropical, cemetery.

Is there a particular graveyard that inspired this story?

Not a real one. My wife and I have visited some of the more beautiful cemeteries while travelling, but the graveyard in my story is one of the typical country-town ones you see in rural and regional Australia. They’re usually quite tiny, existing on a single block of land. They’re really quite interesting because you might think there’s no one around, but the town may have been a satellite community on a…