Stephanie Golightly

Stephanie Golightly writes fantasy fiction that blends humor, emotional depth, and quietly unsettling questions about identity and perception. Her work often explores the spaces where meaning shifts—between roles, relationships, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.
Drawing on a background in literature and a love of layered storytelling, she writes across formats, including novels and short fiction. Her stories range from satirical fantasy to more introspective, atmospheric pieces, often circling themes of transformation, memory, and the instability of certainty.
When she’s not writing, she’s building interconnected worlds where even the smallest details—like a word, a symbol, or a choice—can carry unexpected weight.

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Summary: Ghosts are only one way the dead refuse to leave us. From cursed homes and forgotten roads to monsters, memories, and grief that refuses to loosen its grip, Bound, Broken, and Haunted explores the ghosts that follow us long after the darkness should have passed. This collection gathers seven supernatural suspense and dark fantasy tales of love that refuses to let go, loss, redemption, and tangled memories—including After His Funeral, an original full-length novel in which a grieving college student begins hearing the voice of her dead twin brother, only to discover that not every voice calling us home speaks from love. Inside you'll find: Revelry Unmasked — A Halloween masquerade hides a predator who feeds on emotions instead of blood. Ad Infinitum — Sometimes a decision in your life is so important, you just can’t get past it. The House with Gas Lights — A lonely woman inherits a Victorian house where every light reveals another reason to fear the dark. A trio of stories about the Travis siblings: Parson's Trap, Devil's Contract — Some monsters wear faith more convincingly than the faithful. Three Threads of the Turnpike Man — All the fallen must pay the price for salvation somehow. Twig the Cull Maneuvering the Apostles — Paperwork, promises, and forgotten debts become far more dangerous than claws or fangs. A haunting psychological horror novel: After His Funeral — A grieving twin struggles to distinguish memory from something far more dangerous as the voice of her brother lingers long after he's passed. Perfect for readers who enjoy atmospheric supernatural fiction where the greatest horrors are often heartbreak, memory, and the impossible choices love demands.

Bound, Broken, and Haunted

Stephanie Golightly

Published: 08/30/2026

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Summary: They are broken, bruised, and troubled. But Waylon Academy will make them perfect. Even if it kills them. In a not so distant future America, a combination of the troubled teen epidemic and a lack of young people joining the military has spawned the Waylon Academy for the Obedient and Enlightened. A school made to kidnap delinquent children, at the behest of their parents, and train them in an elite super soldier program. A place where they break students down in order to build them up into killing machines. When Naomi is taken and thrown into the silent room, she realizes that this is the first step of a long system meant to brainwash her into a shell of herself. But she refuses to play their game. As she goes through the school, she knows that she will not graduate. She will not let the system win. She plans her escape, meets friends and unlikely allies. But the more she learns, the more she realizes the truth. There is no escape, only service. Graduate or die.