“Our Mutual Friend”: A Short Story for Haunted Passages by Stephen Langlois

MY DAUGHTER ARABELLE, SHE WAS the first to hear them. They woke her Thursday night before last, tapping on … More

“The Shapes in the Carpet”: A Short Story for Bad Survivalist by Stephen Piccarella

BOTH OF MY PARENTS ARE dead. I live with Zeke, my older half-brother, and we take care of each other. … More

FOSTER WAS IN TOWN AGAIN. We took a cab together and had a late lunch in an empty little … More

LORNA SCANNED HER REFLECTION IN a full-length mirror, sucking in her stomach as she forced the button through the hole. … More

DEAR BECCA, I’VE WANTED TO write you for a long time. But on the last episode, GO FOR IT, … More

THE RED IN THE RIVER wasn’t blood, at first. It was iron. Just sediment eroded from mountain rocks that … More

A RUNAWAY HIPPO, TYPHOID FEVER, and a charge of theft had not figured in my plans for a tranquil … More

Tariq Shah’s Whiteout Conditions is a slim book that, by centering on death, allows its protagonist to explore life. Ant, the … More

Christian TeBordo’s Ghost Engine has everything I always want from a short story collection. These pieces are darkly humorous, formally … More

SHE WOKE UP TO THE rain and a vague sense of unease. The unease she attributed to the melancholy weather. … More

THE FIRST GHOST LAW WAS supposed to get everybody on better terms with their resident ghosts, but whoever wrote that … More

WHEN MY GRANDMA WAS ON the farm, she snapped around one thousand chicken necks and in one day killed, … More