Ellen Ashe

Three generations crowed into the old farm house where Ellen Ashe spent her youth in Nova Scotia, a house that whispered constantly with the voices of ancestors long buried. Telling ghost stories became more than a hobby--it was simply a part of every day life. After securing degrees in English, History and Elementary Education, Ellen traveled to Thailand to teach, a year of absorbing a culture's somber belief in the spirit world. Her next teaching position took her to London, England, and oddly enough, eventually she ended up in the ancient city of York, reputed to be the most haunted city in all of Europe. Home again to the eastern Canadian province, she began writing, recounting personal experiences, weaving thin strands of truth into fanciful tales of mythological creatures, spirits, ghosts, demigods and deliciously barbaric men with insatiable desires. The possibilities are endless. So too, is her inherited passion for story telling.