“Halloween Memories: The Dark,” a short memoir by Scott Cole, author of Triple Axe, for Haunted Passages

Halloween Memories: The Dark I was twelve. We had just moved to a new town that August, and I hadn’t … More

Craft Essay for Haunted Passages: “Standing at a Line in the Sand with a Shiver in Your Heart” by Bones Are Made to Be Broken author Paul Michael Anderson

Standing at a Line in the Sand with a Shiver in Your Heart I want to talk about the limitless … More

Haunted Passages Flash Fiction: “The Cable Company” by Darkansas author Jarret Middleton

The Cable Company A barmaid closing up for the night stopped polishing a glass when a telegram dropped through the … More

Five Poems by Esteban Rodríguez for Haunted Passages

Landscape with tree and leg Then you come across a tree,and hanging from its branch you find a leg—long, pale, … More

“Cthulhu Doesn’t Hate You” for Haunted Passages: Sean Oscar’s Critical Analysis of Apostle, the 2018 Netflix orginal film directed by Gareth Evans

Cthulhu Doesn’t Hate You Apostle follows Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) on the hunt for his sister, Jennifer (Elen Rhys). He … More

“In Darkness,” a Haunted Passages horror memoir by Craig Wallwork, author of Gory Hole: A Horror Triple Bill

In Darkness Horror has been with me from a very early age. I found several copies of The House of … More

“Monster Family Portraits” for Haunted Passages: 14 Ghost and Monster Movies that Inspired or Influenced Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales by Orrin Grey

Monster Family Portraits My previous collection, Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts, was specifically and self-consciously assembled around an idea … More

Haunted Passages: “Halloween Poem” by Lucas Mangum, author of the dark suspense novel Gods of the Dark Web

Halloween Poem Halloween, six-years-old:Stephen King’s Silver Bullet,My brother and IChased by a mummy.The next year I dressedAs the Devil in … More

“The Good Folk” a Haunted Passages nonfiction essay by Carrie Laben

The Good Folk It was one of the most grueling scenes of my novel to write. A mother confronts the … More

David James Keaton’s “Gasoline Dreams”: A Definitive, Last-word Inventory of Car-Chase Flicks for Haunted Passages

Gasoline Dreams As I was poking around under the hood of my new collection, Our Pool Party Bus Forever Days: … More

“The Colossal Beast Strikes a Match in My Brain”: Lee Widener Introduces His Cosmic Horror Collection Under the Shanghai Tunnels to Haunted Passages

The Colossal Beast Strikes a Match in My Brain It all began for me on a Saturday night when I … More

“Proof in the Blood,” a short story by Michael Allen Rose for Haunted Passages

Proof in the Blood They say there’s proof in the blood, that something can be in it that you didn’t … More

A Review of THE SARAH BOOK by Scott McClanahan

An interesting thing happened in literature recently, and not for the first time. Most readers were looking at Big Five … More

How to Catch a Coyote, a novel by Christy Crutchfield, reviewed by Gabino Iglesias

The strange thing about Christy Crutchfield’s debut novel, How to Catch a Coyote, is not that it’s beautiful, but that … More

Lamentation, by Joe Clifford

It’s relatively easy to find a crime narrative that’s gritty. However, finding one in which the grittiness intensifies once it … More