James A. Reeves: “The Diver,” a Haunted Passages flash fiction

MY MOTHER BELIEVED LIFE SHOULD be graceful and clean, much like the way she entered the water when she was … 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

THE DISEMBODIED HANDS WERE STILL a long way off. I mean, we could hear them down the hallway, kind … 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

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

1 YOU ACCEPT THE CHARGES, PULL the latex cap over your scalp. You can already hear the ambient noise … More

IT’S NOT THAT PLENARY MEETING. Yet, little do you know, when you plod on through the rain, through the … More

Haunted House The haunted house does not require a history, but it needs a mouth: a previous, innocent tenant, … More