Horror • Haunted Typewriter

Some of my favourite horror stories, folklore, and resources about horror fiction.

Articles

The Scariest Part Happens After the Ghosts Are Gone by Aurora Stewart de Peña: The Haunting of Hill House takes place after that last scene. It demands that we finally see what the trauma of being haunted looks like.
Ever Scarier: On The Turn of the Screw by Brad Leithauser: If the governess is mad, she has unwittingly killed a bright and beautiful little boy; this is a tragedy, but a local one. If the ghosts are genuine, however, there are jagged cracks in the firmament above us all, and nobody is safe.
The Housewife, the Ghost Hunter and the Poltergeist by Kate Summerscale: Come to my house, Alma Fielding implored the Pictorial’s news desk. There are things going on here I cannot explain.
The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson by Zoë Heller: If there is an animating tension in Jackson’s fiction, it is surely the tension between wanting to get out and being too frightened to go, or between longing for a home and knowing that in all homes one person inevitably ends up swallowing the other.