My first crush killed a man in Ohio. His name was Taylor;

the crush, not the man, whose name I do not know.

By day the Quartermain greenhouse is still an actively-maintained conservatory, boasting an impressive assortment of flowers and vegetables, along with some righteous weed.

That was the year

I dressed up as confident

I loved my best friend

but candy more

It will happen on a sunny day when other thingsare happening that are more important

It was the day of the dead. We pitchedour discreet rows of canvas mausoleums;

His flawless routine. The tea pot whistle: the slow pour: the towel draped over his head: his face over the bowl: the steam emanating.

the ghost is a presence defined by negative space, a nothingness gripping your leg, your waist, your lungs, your throat, your tongue, creating a silence surrounded by static.

One of the things Peter liked most about nights when the moon was full was that under its light he turned into a woman.

When the zombies came, they were kinda lame.

Saw kept his eyes closed but imagined opening them, seeing night. The sun would have set, everything gone dark.

I walk into the confessional booth.

I haven’t been in at least a decade,

and, between you and me, I should confess

When you died everyone came home

to fill up the church.

The three of us—me and Cassie and our ten-year-old daughter, Luanne—were carving pumpkins at the kitchen table when Lu announced that her favorite movie of all time was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Even now in the dawn of the seventh grade, you know that you’re taking a risk.

Is this a horror story? I'd rather not use that word, because it involves one of my very best friends in the distant past and there was no horror in the event I will describe.

My mom says not to fall in love with a car.

My son is afraid of zombies. He runs into my room at night. They're going to eat my brains! They’ll come in through the windows while we’re sleeping and eat our brains!

Freddy Vs. Jason is a quintessential tale of a clash between titans, the unstoppable force pitted against the immovable object, a crude powerhouse reckoning with a vulgar wit.

Hasbro says pass goFingers divinefrom worlds beyond

So, Kelsey had this ghost boyfriend, see, and it was weird because, well, for one reason, she’d met him through her younger sister, who was really like a little sister, like Kelsey’s sister was young, but before you go thinking, you know, this is the kind of fucked up story where kids are hanging out with much older people, you should remember that Bradley wasn’t, like, an actual person.