Ghost Fingers Sometime in the 1940s, a school bus in Horton, Texas, was hit by a train after stalling on … 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.
Haunted Passages Digital Collage: “The Frenzy of an Indispensable Hallucination” by Bill Wolak
*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. The Frenzy of an Indispensable Hallucination Bill Wolak has just published his … More
“Fugitive,” a new poem for Haunted Passages by Douglas Cole
Fugitive These junkyards at the edge of cities,towers of wrecks, cars with bloodstill on the driver seat, the windshield—I am … More
Haunted Passages: “The Gold-Eyed Plague,” a short story by Sophie Panzer
The Gold-Eyed Plague The girls arrived on a bad wind like blight and ate up our lives like locusts. Some … More
Haunted Passages Poetry: “Registry” by Dane Slutzky
Registry We got married before the disasterand now, whenever something happens,a package shows up on the doorstep. When part of … More
Haunted Passages: Five Poems by Scott Ferry
this is a poem about the fish on the dock whose mouth gasps a 0 as it tries to breatheand … More
“Call Me Kitty,” a new Haunted Passages short story by Kelly Gray
Call Me Kitty I’m on my way to a party down the highway at one of the houses in town … More
Short Fiction: “To Have Done with the Division of Moving Bodies” by John Madera
To Have Done with the Division of Moving Bodies The day the killer killed the bitch, the town-they-called-a-city’s grayscale sky … More
“A Duality, a Duet”: Reading Addie Tsai’s Unwieldy Creatures by Maxx Fidalgo
Described as a “genderbent, queer, biracial modern-retelling of Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein,” Addie Tsai delivers on all descriptors. Unwieldy Creatures … More
“The Painting and the Parrot,” a Haunted Passages flash by David Luntz
The Painting and the Parrot I wrote this story once about a guy who kills his best friend. Well, he … More
“Masks” for Haunted Passages: Short Story Excerpt from How to See Ghosts & Other Figments, a new collection by Orrin Grey
When it comes to short fiction, Orrin Grey is a magician, a practitioner of an arcane art inspired by the … More
Three New Poems for Haunted Passages by Eva Heisler
Call Off the Angels Flashy enough in appearance—and I assume this motivated the selection—the group is much older than advertised.One … More
Review: Dave Fitzgerald on Cialis, Verdi, Gin, Jag, a novel by Adam Johnson
In my younger and more vulnerable years, I used to have a very bad habit that routinely got me into … More
“Omens”: A New Haunted Passages Short Story by Andrew Bertaina
Omens When the moon appeared, a violent red sphere riding low on the prow of the sky, everyone in the … More
Haunted Passages: “Possession” by Lauren Brazeal Garza
Possession Mother, suddenly they were everywhere—dozens of chittering advertisements for an “EVP consultant.” In scrutiny of all who passed, their … More