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A Short Biography

A graduate of Vancouver College, author Anton Von Stefan spent his childhood growing up in Vancouver, Surrey, and Richmond, British Columbia. After working for forty-two years at the Pacific Grain Terminal on Vancouver’s waterfront, the author retired and became a full-time writer. Before his retirement he briefly worked for the Herald and Times, a West Side newspaper and the City Drive News, an East End newspaper which, unfortunately, folded in late 2002.

For ten years, he organized murder mystery weekends at Mayne Island’s Springwater Lodge for Vancouver’s Pacific Ski Club. At precisely midnight on the first night the author would read one of his completed ghost stories. Since then, he has held author’s readings at Cole’s Books in Langford, Western Sky Books in Port Coquitlam and at his home in Delta, British Columbia, in North Sydney on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and twice in the author’s birth city of Vienna at Shakespeare and Company.

With thirty-six completed ghost stories, the author published his first book, The Curse of The Red Crystal, in 2017. It is available throughout Greater Vancouver at the Licorice Parlor (both locations), on Vancouver Island at Cole's Books in Langford, at Western Sky Books in Port Coquitlam, the Hope General Store in the Fraser Canyon, and at Shakespeare and Company in Vienna, Austria's First District.

He is currently in negotiations with a theatrical company to bring A Very Strange Christmas to the world stage, and he is working on his third book, The Curse of Count Louie Vincenti.

You can see the author's other book(s) on his publisher's web site:
Granville Island Publishing.
Ask for his books at your book store.

The Curse of The Red Crystal, Anton Von Stefan's first book, was published in 2017 and contains 11 of the over 37 ghost stories the author has completed. Each is an original work of fiction created in the mind of the author.

From the book's Table of Content, the ghost stories contained in the book are:

• The Shrouding
• The Incredible Mirror
• The Death of Mrs Witmore
• The Curse of The Red Crystal
• The Passing of Mr Needles
• The Bizarre Events at Carlton House
• Number 80 Harrow Street
• The Thoughts of Jonathan Moor
• The Tale of Dr Leopold
• The Thin Line
• The Ghastly Demise of Mr Duff

All of the tales bring out spine-tingling emotions which emerge as you read through the words penned by the author.

You can see the author's other book, A Very Strange Christmas!, on this site or you may go to the publisher's web site:
Granville Island Publishing.
Ask for his books at your book store.

The tale of a nefarious loner who, on Christmas Eve of all nights, prowls the streets looking for his next victim. Yet, on this special night, many strange events come into play which will alter the lives of everyone involved.

This tale was written twice. The original manuscript was, for a time, lost but never quite forgotten. More than one year after the first draft had been penned, Anton Von Stefan woke up and had the entire tale in the forefront of his mind once more. Taking his pen in hand on that cold December morning, he wrote the whole story again. More than six months later, the original document came to light. Incredibly, the second, hand-written draft was almost word for word to the first.

"It is a ghostly tale that just had to be brought to the public," the author said with a smile while attending a recent play in Vienna, Austria.

We sincerely hope that it will become a book you will enjoy year after year as Christmas approaches. The author intended it to be a book which brings out the best in each of us and can be read to children from the age of six to one-hundred-six!

You can see the author's other book,

The Curse of The Red Crystal,

on this website or you can go to the publisher's website:
Granville Island Publishing.
Ask for his books at your book store.