Category: Haunted Passages
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Haunted Passages: “The Dreamers of Revolution Never Left,” a short story by Mandira Pattnaik
It’s not that plenary meeting. Yet, little do you know, when you plod on through the rain, through the narrow, stony, cobbled steps towards the ugly backside of the mansion, where the worst possible history is engraved in, that the glossy sheen of natural fur will unnerve you. When you collect the keys of your…
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Haunted Passages: Two Poems by Carolyn Supinka
Haunted House The haunted house does not require a history, but it needs a mouth: a previous, innocent tenant, someone to live to tell the tale. I can speak for its corners. Very lean and fine, alien landscapes of plateaus and dead red rivers spilling out behind, smoke of past lives burned and rising as…
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GHOST/HOME: A Beginner’s Guide to Being Haunted, an essay by Dennis James Sweeney, reviewed by Frank J. Crone
“If you don’t believe in ghosts, you don’t believe in your own interstices,” says Dennis James Sweeney in his latest chapbook GHOST/HOME: A Beginner’s Guide to Being Haunted. Sweeney gifts us a formalistic yet pleasurable read that points out how we don’t have to go far to find the ghost(s) haunting all of us. Providing…
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Circus + The Skin, the first novel from Keith McCleary, reviewed by Kelsi Brown
The premise is a deceptively simple one: A man walks in with tattoos that form a pattern he doesn’t understand, and asks me to explain. And I can’t explain. No matter how you got those tattoos. It’s not important anymore. It’s the skin that keeps you safe. Or ignorant, which is close. They will call…
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“A Great Mentor Is the Kind That Teaches You How to Kill the Mentor”: John Kazanjian Interviews David Leo Rice
David Leo Rice’s novel ANGEL HOUSE is the story of an ensemble cast brought into existence by Professor Squimbop, who serves as the town’s creator, destroyer, and pedagogue. Squimbop’s role in his creation complicates the lives of the town’s people and compounds his growing existential ennui. The result is an examination of the creative process,…
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“Our Town”: A Short Story by Leona Vander Molen for Haunted Passages
We have always lived here and we always will. This is our home and we love it here. We love our house and our neighbor and we used to love our neighbor’s cat. But things happen. We know this. And we know we will never leave. How could we ever leave our home? We do…
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Haunted Passages Flash Fiction by Candace Hartsuyker: “Safe with Paul Newman”
The girl is buried in a locked metal box. Three feet of shoveled sand is above her. The memories of how she got here are fuzzy. There was a man or men. There was a car and there she was, a girl stuffed in a trunk and then shoved in a box. The girl wishes…
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Spiritualist Erotica by Erin Lyndal Martin: “The Flower Medium” for Haunted Passages
I wrote down my findings about what happened that night, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell everything. Not even to you, Lieutenant. I hear you’re old and sick and you may die soon. I sure hate to lose you. You saw the force through some hard times, and no hard time ever met a…
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“A Cadaver Is Filled with Plenty of Material Activity”: Mike Corrao Talks to B.R. Yeager, Author of the Horror Novel Negative Space
I recently had the chance to sit down with B.R. Yeager and discuss his upcoming book Negative Space, which will be coming out from Apocalypse Party in March 2020. Negative Space is an unsettling novel exploring the occult experiences of teenagers as they navigate their lives in a rural town. B.R. Yeager reps Western Massachusetts.…
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