MY MOTHER CARRIED BRIGHT COLORED candies with her everywhere. Usually Skittles or M&M’s. It didn’t strike me as odd … More
Category: Haunted Passages
An ominous wind circles you in the middle of an isolated woods. Your friends wander into an empty factory, under the cover of dusk, never to be seen again. These are “Haunted Passages,” new features of unearthly delights.
Fred Gerhard: Four Poems for Haunted Passages
Chill November On a chill November afternoon memory of color clings to sky like pitch dark twigs alive reaching … More
“Styrofoam”: A Haunted Passages Flash Essay by Sarah Robbins
“THIS IS YOU,” SHE SAYS, with a riiip to the Styrofoam cup. “When you start out, you are pure … More
“greetings from televillage”: A Poem for Haunted Passages by Ariel Clark-Semyck
I how the quiver of the camera makes it all seem so mine—my body flying over the bonnie green … More
Madeline Kinkel: “The Place Between Tongue and Teeth,” a Haunted Passages short story
AT NIGHT IT FILLS MY mouth, this unnamable, unmournable ghost. I don’t know who it is, but on calm … More
Noah Thornburgh on B.R. Yeager’s cosmic horror novel NEGATIVE SPACE
Negative Space, by B.R. Yeager. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Apocalypse Party, March 2020. 382 pages. $14.99, paper. Works of cosmic horror threaten … More
Two Poems by Sean Burke for Haunted Passages
The Moon Lays Down a No Trick Hand When father left office a rag of colts followed on their … More
Honor Vincent: “Boots,” a Haunted Passages short story
IT WAS, AS IT ALWAYS is, the cat who first noticed that the number of ghosts squeezing themselves into … More
Andrew Bertaina: “A Good Day’s Work,” a Haunted Passages short story
THE MAN THREADED HIS WAY down the long rows of bodies with an old wheelbarrow, careful as he rolled, … More
“Becoming Gods,” a flash fiction for Haunted Passages by Steve Gergley
OH, JESUS. JUST TRY TO relax. You’re okay. God. You’re okay, I’m right here with you, just like always. … More
Haunted Passages: “Thank You for Shopping with CouchCart,” a short story by Tara Campbell
Tara Campbell (taracampbell.com) is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction editor at Barrelhouse. She received her MFA … More
“Inked,” a Haunted Passages short story by Kara Oakleaf
MY FIRST TATTOO APPEARS THE morning after Ian’s funeral. I wake up and press my hands into my eyes … More