“Accidental and Inevitable”: Marcus Pactor Talks to Christian TeBordo about His Short Story Collection GHOST ENGINE

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

Haunted Passages: “Maxwell House’s Demon,” a short story by J. Thomas Murphy

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

NEW ONLINE FEATURE! Flavortown USA. Submissions now open. Read more below. What’s that smell wafting on the wind? A … More

IN XI’AN, CHINA, I HAD the runs. It had gone on for two days, and I couldn’t control it. I … More

“THE RESTAURANT OF OBSCURE SORROWS isn’t the best place to work,” I told Alice, “but at least there’s no … More

Them Ants (’54) “The sounds the giant ants emit in the film were the calls of bird-voiced tree frogs … More

Hostage After Katie Peterson On the night I ended it the police had cordoned off every street surrounding the … More

AFTER COLLEGE, MICHELLE HAD DIFFICULTY sleeping. The problem started when she was a freshman sharing a room with a … More

THESE DAYS YOUR ARMS ARE covered in tiny red scratches. You can’t seem to get any work done without Jonah … More

FATHER DIED SO HIGH THAT not even ravens could bury him. I don’t remember this. I wasn’t there. When, … More