C.X.Turner

a ghostly wind
reaching through me
for candy

— C.X.Turner

Keith Evetts

Hallowe’en barbecue
what I mistook
for a sausage

— Keith Evetts

C.X.Turner

unsinkable
ships passing in the night
ghost-white

— C.X.Turner

Keith Evetts

chasm overlook
the gap
in the rope

— Keith Evetts

Herb Tate

at the wake

father preys

on my mind

— Herb Tate

Chris Langer

bathroom mirror
feeling comfortable
in my neighbor’s skin

— Chris Langer

staring contest 

with her doll-

it blinks first

— Chris Langer

Subir Ningthouja

hypnotic chants ...
he cuts the clay clod
again and again

— Subir Ningthouja

midnight road ...

a white wailing sari

beckons me

— Subir Ningthouja

Kerry J Heckman

college kids 
tempt the devil’s chair
blood moon

— Kerry J Heckman

Jerome Berglund

stealing glances
through chinks in blinds:
a house of horrors

— Jerome Berglund

Daipayan Nair

late night 
what’s left of the mouse 
on my doormat

— Daipayan Nair

Rudolf Slöh

cursed reflection -
fingers slowly bending
backwards

— Rudolf Slöh

Nitu Yumnam

old blender
making rasping sounds
just like ma

— Nitu Yumnam

Mark Gilbert

a clunk
in the back of the cupboard
the cocoon splits

— Mark Gilbert

a faint wailing

sirens on the wind

perhaps I’m the ghost

— Mark Gilbert

Mona Bedi

lonely night
her dead grandmother
gives her company

— Mona Bedi

suddenly awakened

she finds herself hanging

from the ceiling

— Mona Bedi

Minal Sarosh

funeral
a big moth fluttering 
near grandpa’s glasses

— Minal Sarosh

Hunter’s Moon

on the kitchen window 

a splash of blood

— Minal Sarosh

Roberta Beach Jacobson

bashed
in the head with a bowling ball
strike!

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Kimberly Kuchar

creaky gate
banging open and shut...
no wind tonight

— Kimberly Kuchar

Pippa Phillips

old haunts—
my bicycle limned
with rust 

— Pippa Phillips

Lorraine A Padden

the black
at my back
basement stairs

— Lorraine A Padden

plucking doll’s eyes my field of dreams

— Lorraine A Padden

Chad Lee Robinson

the click of Grandma’s teeth nighty night

— Chad Lee Robinson

petro c. k.

children disappearing
the halloween candy

— petro c. k.

John Hawkhead

passing time
grandpa and his cronies
at the graveyard gate

— John Hawkhead

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

not like the other girls in the grinder

— Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Hifsa Ashraf

witching hour—
reshuffles my fears
a cauldron of bats

— Hifsa Ashraf

midnight terror

the radio frequency 

out of tune

— Hifsa Ashraf

Keith Evetts

the last slice
she left him
in the freezer

— Keith Evetts

discarded pie

the sous-chef’s heart

isn’t in it

— Keith Evetts

Arvinder Kaur

footprints on floor dust twilight chill

— Arvinder Kaur

the stare 

of a hunted head

ghost hour

— Arvinder Kaur

Christopher Peys

dark corridor
black along the baseboard
cockroach

— Christopher Peys

Hemapriya Chellappan

at the edge of town night sharpens its teeth

— Hemapriya Chellappan

moth entering the house entering me

— Hemapriya Chellappan