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The Story of a Haunting, a Kidnapping, and an International Incident"> Good Ghosts and Bad Fathers: <br

Good Ghosts and Bad Fathers: <br

The Story of a Haunting, a Kidnapping, and an International Incident">

The Story of a Haunting, a Kidnapping, and an International Incident">Good Ghosts and Bad Fathers:
The Story of a Haunting, a Kidnapping, and an International Incident

Helen Vogelsong-Donahue Finally Escapes Her Bogeyman

By Helen Vogelsong-Donahue | October 31, 2024

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

The Haunting of Hill House">Alexandra Dos Santos on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

By Alexandra Dos Santos | October 11, 2023

TaraShea Nesbit on Reckoning With Ghosts, and Returning to the Same Story, Again and Again

TaraShea Nesbit on Reckoning With Ghosts, and Returning to the Same Story, Again and Again

“There is a backward-looking thing in all good stories and essays: a haunting.”

By TaraShea Nesbit | October 21, 2021

Ghosts, Demons, and Depression: Writers and Their Many Hauntings

Ghosts, Demons, and Depression: Writers and Their Many Hauntings

Claire Cronin on the Literary Fixation on the Supernatural

By Claire Cronin | October 30, 2020

Making Poems into Phantoms, One Broken Line at a Time

Making Poems into Phantoms, One Broken Line at a Time

Adam O. Davis Finds Ghostly Relics in His New Collection

By Adam O. Davis | September 10, 2020

Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

"I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death."

By Honor Moore | January 3, 2019

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Shanthi Sekaran Returns to Haunt Her Childhood Library

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Happy 100th Birthday, Shirley Jackson!

By Literary Hub | December 14, 2016

Why We Love to Be Haunted

Why We Love to Be Haunted

On What Our Ghosts Are Really Trying to Tell Us

By Lyz Lenz | October 31, 2016

On the Horror of Language, and the Horror of Trump

On the Horror of Language, and the Horror of Trump

The Shining to the Election, and the Things That Scare Us Most">From The Shining to the Election, and the Things That Scare Us Most

By Emily Harnett | October 31, 2016

Memories of a Killing, Visions of a Haunting

Memories of a Killing, Visions of a Haunting

SCRAPIRON BLUES">On the Violence of Dambudzo Marechera's SCRAPIRON BLUES

By Scott Cheshire | April 6, 2016

Of Loneliness, Motherhood, Hauntings, and Cults

Of Loneliness, Motherhood, Hauntings, and Cults

Darcey Steinke in Conversation with Samantha Hunt

By Darcey Steinke | March 15, 2016

A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist

A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist

Of Ghosts and the Great Invisible Library

By Samantha Hunt | January 4, 2016

My Haunted Honeymoon: On Getting Punched by the Ghost of Frida Kahlo

My Haunted Honeymoon: On Getting Punched by the Ghost of Frida Kahlo

Hermione Hoby Sees Through the Veil

By Hermione Hoby | October 30, 2015