The Ghost White Salamander

The Ghost White Salamander

Belvedere was the ghost of a ghost white salamander who hung out with Salaman The Magician.

The two had met when the stage magician had been doing a magic show in Salt Lake City.


Belvedere did not believe that he had always been a ghost white salamander.


He believed an evil witch had turned him into a ghost white salamander when he refused to pay her for services rendered in a room above a Wild West saloon.

Since he had been turned into a salamander and was ghostly white in colour, he would have been labelled by zoologists a ghost white salamander.


He turned into the ghost of a ghost white salamander after being run over by an ox cart heading further west.


No one could see him until Salaman The Magician had spotted him in Salt Lake City.


Belvedere and Salaman had hit it off and the two hung out together ever since.


Belvedere would occasionally help Salaman out with his magic show.

Having a ghost as part of the show often left other stage magicians who were sitting in the audience as spectators scratching their heads wondering themselves how a certain trick could have been possibly done.





Salaman had recently been hired by the British government to put on a fake haunting using fake ghosts at a Scottish castle this past weekend.

"Why didn't you use a real ghost like me for the haunting?" Belvedere the ghost of the ghost white salamander asked Salaman.


"A lot of people don't find ghosts of ghost white salamanders scary," Salaman answered.


"Really?" Belvedere looked perplexed, "I find myself looking scary whenever I look into the mirror and find dandruff flakes falling out of my ectoplasm."


"Yes, that really is a strange phenomenon," Salaman had to admit.


"I really don't know how to stop it," Belvedere said sheepishly, "it makes me glad most people aren't able to see me."


"Eek!" The magician's lovely stage assistant Maria screamed when she entered the room, "What is that strange creature with dandruff flakes falling out of its ectoplasm?".


"Of which this moment is a prime example," Belvedere the ghost white salamander hung his head in shame.


-A vampire novel chapter
  written by Christopher
  Monday May 30th
 2016.