Category: Haunted Passages
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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“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…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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“The Minister’s Black Mass,” a short story by Chase Dearinger for Haunted Passages
When the fireplace was so full that the air grew heavy and beads of sweat broke out across his forehead, Tom went to bed. But the hallway where he expected to find the doors to his family wasn’t the narrow, wood-paneled one he expected. What he found instead: floral wallpaper, rose-tinted golden sconces, thick red…
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A Haunted Passages Excerpt from A Spectral Hue, a horror novel by Craig Laurance Gidney
For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement of African-American artists, all working in different media, but all utilizing the same haunting color. Landscape paintings, trompe l’oeil quilts, decorated dolls, mixed-media assemblages, and more, all featuring the same peculiar hue, a shifting pigment somewhere between purple and pink,…
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