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Illustration by James McBryde for M. R. James's story "Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad", first published "All Hallows Eve 1904"
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Eight M.R. James Stories to Make Your Holidays a Little Scarier

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Cover of Tom's Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski.
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Journeys and Destinations: On Mark Z. Danielewski’s Tom’s Crossing

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Don’t Put That Thing in Your Mouth: Nghi Vo’s “What the Dead Know”

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Illustration from Washington Irving's Old Christmas, depicting a ghostly knight on horseback holding a lance
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Six Haunting Stories About the Things Ghosts Long For

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The Girl (Noutnapha Soydara) and the Boy (Por Silatsa) in a scene from The Long Walk (2019)
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The Long Walk: Grief, Guilt, and the Inescapable Weight of the Past

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Cover of the anthology Weird Sisters
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Martha has two… — Mary Elizabeth Counselman’s “Mommy”

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Rebecca Payne (Lucy Liu) hears an uncanny sound in Presence.
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Presence Finds Its Horror in Loneliness

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Book cover of The Dark Descent horror anthology
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Dissecting The Dark Descent

A Spectre Is Haunting Catesby Wran: “Smoke Ghost” by Fritz Leiber

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Book cover of The Dark Descent horror anthology
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Dissecting The Dark Descent

Haunted Homecoming: “The Jolly Corner” by Henry James 

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Cover of Apex Magazine issue 143
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Reading the Weird

Love in the Time of Fungi: Nika Murphy’s “The Ghost Tenders of Chornobyl”

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Christmas

How the Holidays Became Haunted

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Cover of The Room in the Tower and Other Stories by E.F. Benson
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Have a Merry Scary Christmas: E. F. Benson’s “Between the Lights”

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"It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”

Frank Herbert, Dune

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