“Last Call,” a Haunted Passages short story by Cassandra Clarke

“THE RESTAURANT OF OBSCURE SORROWS isn’t the best place to work,” I told Alice, “but at least there’s no … More

Louis Zieja: Three Ekphrastic Monster Movie Noises for Haunted Passages

Them Ants (’54) “The sounds the giant ants emit in the film were the calls of bird-voiced tree frogs … More

Hostage After Katie Peterson On the night I ended it the police had cordoned off every street surrounding the … More

AFTER COLLEGE, MICHELLE HAD DIFFICULTY sleeping. The problem started when she was a freshman sharing a room with a … More

THESE DAYS YOUR ARMS ARE covered in tiny red scratches. You can’t seem to get any work done without Jonah … More

I YOU MEET THEM WHEN THEY get off the metro. You can’t tell who they are because you’ve only seen … More

IT WASN’T THEIR FAULT, THE fire. The last time the sheriff’s department spoke to the newspapers, they said the … More

FATHER DIED SO HIGH THAT not even ravens could bury him. I don’t remember this. I wasn’t there. When, … More

Note: ALL subs not pertaining to the collaborative fellowship will be auto-rejected. In thinking about my relationship with my late … More

We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections every … More

1 YOU ACCEPT THE CHARGES, PULL the latex cap over your scalp. You can already hear the ambient noise … More

OUR EYES MET IN THE rearview mirror and he looked at me appraisingly. “You look Middle Eastern.” This would have … More