For Halloween, scary stories from past issues of The New Yorker, including stories by Rebecca Curtis, Mariana Enriquez, Amelia Gray, John Lanchester, Joyce Carol Oates, Hye-yung Pyun, and Karen Russell.
—Deborah Treisman Rebecca Curtis, “The Pink House” “Over dinner, they’d discussed politics and failed relationships, then moved on to ghost stories. The guests were full, tipsy, and reluctant to go out into the rain. They’d heard about the boot steps on the stairs of the old Virginia fort, and the Northern California gold-rush-era hotel where female guests woke with hand-shaped bruises around their necks. A ghost story about a man’s life getting ruined seemed better. They leaned forward.
I knew where I was and what I was doing, but my volition seemed to have been dialled down so that I could not move or speak. I saw the handle of the door, directly across from where I was sitting, start to move. It was easy to tell, because it was an irregular wooden handle and the pattern of light shifted on it as it turned. The door began, very gradually, to open.” Read more. Joyce Carol Oates, “Pumpkin Head” “She couldn’t make out his face.
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