Writing with Ghosts: These Walls Still Talk, Part One | The Grave Talks

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Some places don’t need a story written about them—they already have one.

Missouri State Penitentiary is one of those places. With a long history and a reputation for lingering activity, it’s a location that has drawn investigators, storytellers, and the curious for years.

Author Brian Paone took a different approach.

Instead of visiting, he stayed—spending eight weeks inside the prison, writing at night, surrounded by the same environment that inspired his novel These Walls Still Talk. A story about a woman returning to confront something that has followed her for years… set in a place where many believe the past never truly left.

Blending real locations with fiction, the experience raises an interesting question: when you create a story inside a place already filled with its own history, where does the line begin to blur?

Because in a setting like this, it’s not always clear what’s being imagined… and what might already be there.

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