Salt in the Trees: Coastal Tales of Dread

Salt in the Trees: Coastal Tales of Dread gathers four deeply atmospheric horror stories rooted in the eerie beauty of the Florida coast. When heat, history, and the unexplainable press too close, ordinary lives begin to warp in unsettling ways. These stories explore themes of isolation, folklore, obsession, haunting, and the quiet horrors that seep into the spaces we pretend not to see. Four stories, each unique, tell their own tales of dread. A newly minted nurse on a locked unit begins to notice a presence in her favorite patient's room-something only the two of them seem to see. A janitor in the late '90s takes what he thinks is a shortcut-an unfamiliar hallway leading to something impossible. In the early 2000s, a teenage girl walks home from an evening swim, only to realize the footsteps behind her stop where the palmettos end. In the 1970's, a parks employee finds himself not quite alone after falling asleep on the beach.Perfect for readers who love: - Southern Gothic & Florida Weird- Coastal horror- Liminal spaces & slow-building dread- Psychological hauntings- Short fiction with literary tension Step into the wetlands, the backroads, the rising tides. Every story leaves its mark.