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October 23, 2024

Who is The Sexton Ghost?

What traditional Halloween supper do you conjure up on October 31? How about ghost-steaming penne pasta, murdered sliced-up sausage, and green spinach playing peek-a-BOO. At our house, this is a Halloween night favorite.

This dish Penne Alla Vite is served at the Twisted Vine Restaurant in Derby, Connecticut, where diners report hearing disembodied voices, seeing apparitions—a little girl is said to haunt the tables—and a jukebox starts playing at its will.

The pasta recipe is published in Food To Die For by Ami Bruni, Recipes and Stories From America’s Most Legendary Haunted Places.

This cookbook is amazing, from Lizzie Borden’s Killer Meatloaf to Hemingway’s Bloody Mary to Jack the Red Pepper Quiche.

Bruni has written a storybook of food and phantoms. A must-have if you are a supernatural mystery story-lover with an epicurean philosophy to eat, drink, and be haunted.

My Halloween ghostly pasta dinner has an added treat. A cocktail!

The Sexton Ghost.

This Irish whiskey, “The Sexton,” boasts a skeleton wearing a top hat on its label and goes frightfully well with our Gothic candlelight evening.

Easy to conjure up: Pour a deep splatter of The Sexton whiskey over ice, add 4 ounces of cider, spear of apple, a cinnamon dagger, and backstab the mixture with rosemary or thyme sprigs.

Speaking of The Sexton. Have you met Marc Sexton of Bedford, New York?

Marc’s ancestral family created and brewed this Irish whiskey in olde Ireland. Do you know Draakensky Windmill Estate in Bedford? Let me bring you there.

Enter through the black iron gates . . .

Meet Charlotte Knight

Hired to live on the estate while illustrating poetry under the guidance of the reclusive spinster Jaa Morland (a wind-witch), Charlotte quickly encounters unsettling phenomena—the voice of a ghost and a sinister figure lurking in the shadows.

As Charlotte navigates this ghostly reality, she finds refuge in Marc Sexton, an attractive local, impossibly sexy, and has knowledge of Celtic magick.

Together, they delve into a world of witchcraft, necromancy, and hidden truths.

A murder. A wind sorcerer. A dark spirit. 

On Draakensky, magick dictates destiny.

I lift my glass—The Sexton Ghost. Cheers!

 Draakensky, A Supernatural Tale of Magick and Romance

“A powerful, timeless piece of dark fiction that is just as much a work of art as the artful content found within its magickal pages. Well-researched, written as top-notch, and contains deep character development. A gothic setting that is dark and poetic. Factual magick, witchcraft, Arthurian legend, Celtic lore, and more. A book that is different, unique, and stands out loudly from the rest. Highly recommended.” —Jon R. Meyers, The Horror Zine

On Amazon

(https://www.amazon.com/Draakensky-Supernatural-Tale-Magick-Romance-ebook/dp/B0DCKBVQTV)

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