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The Return of Rose White
When Madame Veneris reached the cemetery, the first thing she did, after getting out of her car and setting down the blue blanket and candle, was to pull up the ...
Promises You Can Keep
Pete leant on the washing machine, catching his breath, looking around. It was a big kitchen. Big and empty and incomplete, caught between one age and another, one owner and ...
Walter
We didn’t usually ignore him. That would mean being irresponsible, and we were responsible homeowners—with a little help. Walter kept things running like a tight ship. I loved it. The ...
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Litro #119: Ghosts
From Daniel Knauf’s eerily unsettling and nightmarish horror fable “Bye, Bye Blackbird” to “Flat Pack Pirate”, Sabrina Mahfouz’s slick and chilling tale of domestic paranoia, there’s something to chill even ...
Digital Subscriptions, Letters from the Editor, Litro #119: Ghosts
Litro #119: Ghosts — Editors’ Letter
What are ghosts, if not the dark residue of memory? Their form is shaped by our own, their fears our fears grotesquely inversed. They mirror our own lives—a warning, or ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #119: Ghosts
Flat-pack Pirate
Late that night when the river outside was black like octopus ink and inside the only noise was the low buzz of the boiler, he heard a scratching sound and ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #119: Ghosts
Bye, Bye Blackbird
She was with him every night as he drifted between sleep and delirium. He heard her coo softly, a cool hand on his forehead. Even when his cough settled deep ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #119: Ghosts
Jellyfish
Seabirds haunt an area where the contents of a bucket have been tossed. I see fish-heads. Entrails. Farther along, I almost step on a dead jellyfish. Its skin is transparent. ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #119: Ghosts
The Ghost in the (Fruit) Machine
It was there that the father-son relationship was nurtured by proxy, though increasingly as my brother approached puberty, the attractions became less familial and more like lovers. He would murmur ...
Five Ghost Stories that Scared M. R. James
Today marks 150 years since the birth of the master of the ghost story, Montague Rhodes James. In the century since they were first published, James’s stories have never been ...