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This page was last updated on: 10/2/25
We are currently OPEN to poetry and fiction submissions for our Halloween Tropes Contest as well as our Halloween Issue 2025.
Toothy Nanny
Stumper’s Wood
The Great Un-Haunting of Raven’s End
Halloween
Guardian
The Professor’s Cough
Ain’t So
The Great Chemical Apocalypse: Factory Settings
Mommy Dearest
Hungerford Forest
The Knock Behind the Wall
Fourteen
The Woman in My Home: A True Story
Filter Fade
Beachside Baptism
Visions of Halloween
Panic in the Basement
Lessons in Darkness
Meeting Death
The Unspoken Side of Being a Zombie
Born Again
Jacob’s Ladder
The Last Light of Asteron
Bigame’s Mom
Second Skin
A Good Likeness
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
A Still and Quiet Night
Roar
Back to Back
He Skipped Detention
Saturday Afternoon
The House on Fulton Street
No Way Out
Skulls
The Dirge Tongue
At the Cold Whiskey
The Brownstone
Vainglorious VHS
The Cemetery Cat
The Lantern at Hollow Creek
The Divil’s Bargain
Hot Tea and Catnip
Cold Corridors
Forever, In Autumn
The Reflecting Child
Another Sunny Day
No Appointment Needed
The Lycanthrope
Crossing the Road
Please Don’t Tell
The Haunting of Hill House: A Book Review Beyond the Ghosts
La Bonne Vie
Do you believe in Miracles?
The Tale of the Isah Musah Bird
Black Cats are Bad Luck
Lights without a Switch
The Abbey
The Hand That Takes the Candy
The Night Bleeds Poe
Ashes to Dust
Trick or Trick
Boo Humbug
Bite
Weeknight at the Bad Mall
Halloween Facades
Destined
Room 156
Everything is Fine
Feeding Time
The Woman from Inside the Tree
The Deep, Deep, Dark Woods
Layover
The Mentor
Anybody Home?
The Great Un-haunting of Raven’s End
The Walk Home
Uncle Pete
Exshala
Happy Traveler
The World Movie Premiere of Hotter than Hades at Summerween
Blue Ribbon
Moon Beam
I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Something Within
A Predator in the Neighborhood
Scary Kids
Doppelganger
Silas
Bit Lip
As Insignificant as a Single Vein
Halloween is Cancelled!
Melon Head
Tricks or Treats or Everything Neats
By the Light of Day
Halloween ’97
The Heretic Doll: A Cursed Manuscript
Milanka’s Summer
A Little Light in the Darkness
Hunger
The Follower
When Darkness Falls
Moonlit Arrival
The Dragon at Lane’s End
The Woman in the Softshell Raincoat
The Retreat
Ceviche Azul
Malediction on the Hunter’s Moon
Blood in the Water
Deepwater Town
Gift from the Marginal Sea
Uncle Bob Came Back Not Quite Right
More Than Mildly Scary
The Follower
Off the Grid
Love: Encapsulated
The Hiding Place
Katie Witchcock
Grave Fools
The Scientist and the Sorcerer
Fetish
Illustrations of the Dark Wood
Scratched by the Moon
Masks
Sharp Teeth, Frightened Ghosts
Ghosts Like Sheep
Fissures in the Desert
The Final Awakening
Little Mamma’s
Blood Sun
His Blood
Trick or Treats in the Old Section of Town
The Echo Room
How’s the Trick?
Dinner
The Hat Man
The Invitation
Three
Whispers of the Debt
The Witching Hour
Stipendum
Into the Wind
The Creaky Door
Can You Catch the Train Past the Fey Wargal Alley?
Suzie’s Angel
The Quake
Baja Bozo
The Pranksters
Baby Blues
The Walk Home
Mystery of the Frozen Mountain
Exorcising Mother
A Miracle Girl – Spooky
Malediction
I Love You This Mulch
Deadeye Dicke
No Treat
The Man Without a Face
The Empathy Tax
Claws Beneath the Earth
Deja Vu
The Boy with Hollow Bones
Aliveness
The Lady of the Hill
A Rock and a Hard Place
Who Comforts the Officers?
Barista Elves
Steam
Hour of the Beast
Considerate Things
Hands of a Clock
The Collar
A Summer Daytrip in the Woods
Trauma at a Tollbooth
Nos Galan Gaeaf
Polly Flinders
The Peculiar Vengeance of a Forest Afire
Possums
Tunnel Vision
Hunger
The Slapstick Tragedy of Eden – Notes from a Failed Creation
Surfacing
Suicidemary
Black Christmas or A Carboniferous Yuletide
Not a Pretty Girl
Death is a Black Door in the Ghetto
Assimilation
Halloween Back in My Day
Breast Milk for Adults
When You Arrived
Civil Disturbance
The Sea is Full of Ghosts
Prisoners, Both
An Eater
Paste
A Walk in the Park