Writing with Ghosts: These Walls Still Talk, Part One | Guest Brian Paone

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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What happens when an author decides to write his next novel inside one of the most haunted prisons in America? Brian Paone 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 haunted locations with immersive paranormal fiction, Brian reveals what it’s like to write a ghost story in a place already full of them. Get ready to step behind the cell doors and experience the creative process where fact and phantoms converge.

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