Today on The Grave Talks, writing with ghosts, these walls still talk.

A conversation with author Brian Payone.

What happens when an author decides to write his next novel inside one of the most haunted prisons in America?

Brian Paoni did exactly that.

Over the course of eight weeks, he wrote These Walls Still Talk, on site at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary.

Working at night and fully immersed in the prison's eerie abandoned atmosphere.

Brian brought to life the story of Hannah, a woman who returns to MSP to confront the dark

spirit that's haunted her for years, only to find the prison has other plans.

Blending real-life haunted locations with immersive paranormal fiction, Ryan reveals what

it's like to write a ghost story and a place already full of them.

Step behind the cell doors and experience the creative process where fact and phantoms converge.

Today on the Grave Talks, writing with ghosts, a conversation with author Brian Payone.

Brian, thank you so much for taking the time to join me tonight.

I appreciate it.

I'm excited to talk about your book.

It's called These Walls Still Talk. Now, you've written quite a few books.

This is book number 11 overall. I say overall because I do have a trilogy. So that trilogy

obviously makes up, you know, three of the books. But overall, I have, that's my

11th and my, in my 12th novel, um, is coming out September 13th. So yeah, so I will have 12 books

total in like two months. That's a lot. It is. And then my number, lucky number 13 is I am going to the Kentucky's most haunted inn to write the next on location haunted house novel.

That's a whole other story about how that wound up happening.

And I want to talk about that and when the book comes out too.

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