The Two-Knock Ghost

About the Book

The Two-Knock Ghost is the story about a good man, a psychologist, who slowly slips into alcoholism after the death of his parents and his paternal grandparents on their way home from his twenty-fourth birthday party. They are killed by a drunk driver. After thirty years of drinking to anesthetize his emotional pain, his wife, a nurse and a great person, asks him to leave because he is not the man she married. She says she’ll wait for him, but he needs to get his act together before she accepts him back. He leaves in shock, not having a clue that he’s an alcoholic. While living away, he is troubled by dreams of the devil, whom he doesn’t believe in in conscious life, and by a pesky ghost that knocks twice in many of his dreams but never comes in and reveals itself. It is the story of his personal search for answers and the truth about himself and what or who the two-knock ghost really is.

About the Author

I am originally from Chicago. I have a BA in theater arts and a master’s degree in education, each from Pepperdine University. I worked as a writer and actor for Education Through Theatre Association and as an actor here in St. Pete with Mystery Dinner Theatre and Bill Erle Dinner Theatre as well as Ed Fletchers Dinner Theatre. I also worked as a milieu activity therapist, working with abused children for several agencies over the years. I also contracted a rare illness called transverse myelitis, which caused me to become semiparalyzed at fifty-eight, develop six brain tumors, have to live on a ventilator, spend six years in a wheelchair, and finally teach myself how to walk on my own without a walker or a cane after eight years. The way I achieved that was by walking relentlessly on a treadmill I bought.