If you enjoy stories like Coraline, Over the Garden Wall, and the Haunting of Hill House, you’ll enjoy The Strange Accounts of Germantown. We take inspiration from the spookiness and wholesomeness of these stories to create something of our own. Each short story centers on the love of the familiarity, such as family or careers, but moved slightly to the left to create something chilling and unsettling.

The Strange Accounts of Germantown feels like home because it is. We decided to create stories that are set right in our own backyard. Philadelphia is one of America’s oldest cities and it is ripe with history. Germantown has so many historical landmarks that we were inspired to create spooky prompts from what we see every day.

We took two and half months to make something out of nothing, but that doesn’t mean that it was easy. My sister and I began with ten spooky short story prompts and we settled on eight of our best ones. We split up the stories and got to work, writing and editing from day to night. We were able to finish by our deadline (Halloween 2022). Part of the reason we were able to accomplish it so quickly was because we only had a few short stories assigned to us and we were able to craft them with attention to detail. There are eight stories (kinda, iykyk) and the collection ends under 200 pages.