Haunted Passages: “Dear Becca,” a short story by Kate St. Germain

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

Emma Aylor: “Ossuary,” a poem for Haunted Passages

On the farm, our border collie lab killed small animals. I’d tell people they died from Joy. Once a … 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

X-Files child, I always wanted to brush up against the paranormal. Grant me a final girl foggy day. Though, … More

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

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