Category: Haunted Passages

Haunted Passages: Three Visual Poems by Ana

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Seed Luminous Marrow Bestia Ana is a Zurich-based legal professional. She serves as art director with Pidgeonholes Magazine and recently published work in Obra/Artifact, Storm Cellar, and Hayden’s Ferry Review.
Zach VandeZande Fiction: “Imperative”

It is night and the feeling is coming on again. You know the one. There are rules for dealing with this, a blunt methodology we have devised over time. Stay awake. Don’t stop thinking. Don’t let it wash over you the way it does. Find something to do. The knight Wallace makes his way up…
Haunted Passages: “Sticking the Cow,” a lyrical prose piece by Stina French

My mother called penises “tallywackers.” That’s a name meant to scare a girl off ‘em. I wonder if that word came to mind when she was eighteen, when her uncle raped her. I didn’t understand, as someone who had never been raped, how it can make a woman run from her body forever, force her…
“The Arm,” a short story for Haunted Passages by Henry Giardina

I made my choice, and I don’t have no regrets so far. That’s a lot better than some folks in town can say. It’s been about, oh, four years now since they took the arm. Actually took it, I mean. I made the choice for it to go much earlier—I guess I must have been…
Sara Lautman Illustration: “overcast”

*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Sara Lautman is a cartoonist, illustrator and editor in Brooklyn. Her drawings have been published with Tablet, Jezebel, The Pitchfork Review, The Believer Logger, and are forthcoming in The New Yorker. Her next collection, The Ultimate Laugh, was published by Tinto Press in winter 2016. She is…
“CisWorld,” a speculative essay by Torrey Peters

If there were only trans people in the world, would the monsters in horror movies be cisgender people? The way that cis people have their monsters and villains in transgender characters like Buffalo Bill, or Michael Caine’s character in Dressed to Kill, or Angela in Sleepaway Camp, or Brother Martin in the X-Files episode “Gender…
Sara Adams: Three Erasures

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Head Librarian Erasure from Stephen King’s It Love Poem Erasure from Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea His Heart Was Shit Erasure from Stephen King’s It Sara Adams is the author of three chapbooks: Think Like a B (SOd Press), Poems for Ivan (Porkbelly Press)…
Haunted Passages: An Excerpt from ANGEL HOUSE, a coming-of-age horror novel by David Leo Rice

After crossing a vast inland sea in an ark called ANGEL HOUSE, Professor Squimbop docks on a distant shore. As soon as his anchor makes purchase, a town sprouts up that may or may not encapsulate all of existence. At the behest of some distant master, he embarks into this town to teach the children…
A Hawk in the Woods, a supernatural road novel by Carrie Laben (An Excerpt)

When newscaster Abby Waite is diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness, she decides to do the logical thing … break her twin sister Martha out of prison and hit the road. Their destination is the Waite family cabin in Minnesota where Abby plans a family reunion of sorts. But when you come from a family…