Martha Wickham

Nine Tales. Nine Secrets. All Before Dawn.

In the shadow of Bloomstone Manor, a dilapidated estate hauntingly known as "Lily Lane", the veil...

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Martha Wickham

Martha Wickham has a knack for finding the ghosts hidden in the dust. A lifelong student of the arcane and the artistic, Martha has an Associate's Degree and professional writing credentials, but she honed her skills in the thrilling shadows of screenwriting and horror. Martha lives for the secrets that only come out By Dawn. You can discover more of her work, including her newest audiobooks, at your favorite retailer.

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Books

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Eternally Beautiful Summer Nights

Book #4 from the series: Summer Screams

Dolls, ghosts that glitter, and that’s not all. A cursed grandfather clock that chimes randomly. Stories for your eternal summer.

Girl Protected
A doll is given to Rita, an old collectable for protection. But she takes it to school and it is stolen. Can she get it to protect her before it’s too late?

Reiny’s Clock Terror
Reiny was Rita’s old doll...

By Dawn

The 13th House

Nine Tales. Nine Secrets. All Before Dawn.

In the shadow of Bloomstone Manor, a dilapidated estate hauntingly known as "Lily Lane", the veil between the living and the dead is impossibly thin. This collection of nine paranormal mystery stories explores inheritances, dark family legacies, and spectral demands, all bound by the Manor's enduring,...

The Roses: Voices in the Dark

Book #9 from the series: Circle of Roses

When Margaret Whitmore inherits her great-aunt’s Victorian mansion on Chicago’s Ashford Avenue, she thinks she’s gotten lucky. The house is beautiful, valuable, and comes with decades of family history. But within weeks of moving in, Margaret realizes why the property has changed hands seventeen times in the past century—and why no one ever...

Other Writing

Spring Poems

In anticipation of spring, I thought I'd post some poems from my poetry book Relaxed Poetry.

Spring

Spring come in with a ring,

Beauty will you bring?

New petals on the wind can fling,

Holding me with natures wing.

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Book 2 Audiobook

Currently we are working on Emily's Darkness turning it into an audiobook. It should be finished by the end of September.

10 Things

This is a fact sheet I made about myself during a book tour. 10 facts people don't know about me.

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Praise

Excellent Story
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2022
Great story, very thrilling. If you read one page, you would want to read the next page and keep reading.

– Ariana

Great book
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2021
Martha is a great writer i like shorts books and this one is one of them 👍🏼.

– JC Villa

I loved this clever "high concept" short tale told from the Bride's POV. The storyline and characters worked well.

– Intrepid Matzo

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Latest Updates

December 14, 2025

Magic

Hello and Merry Christmas...

Recently I've been busy. Yesterday I quickly wrote a song called Mistletoe Magic, my new audio book Eternally Beautiful is out and By Dawn is as...

Blog

January 1, 2026

Blitz

I have a book blitz for my book By Dawn on Jan 7. A blitz has an excerpt and my book on different blogs for days.

It will be here: https://sites.google.com/rabtbooktoursandpr.com/2026-blitzes/martha-wickham-by-dawn-the-13th-house-book-blitz

December 31, 2025

What's New

Happy new year. The pictures above are some of the books I read this year. I'm already working on a story about a haunting winter investigation. The Haunted Rosebuds got a new cover. It's posted in the thumbnail. I'm taking horror writing classes right now and look forward to improving my writing.