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Hungry Ghosts

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 2, 2023January 2, 2023

“I think of all the hurts she can never outlive — the ghosts that can never be satisfied, no matter how much of herself she feeds to them.”

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Haunting the Archive

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 23, 2022December 12, 2022

“The media’s obsession with my mother changed my relationship to grief.”

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Encounters With Ghosts

by Peter Rubin November 2, 2022November 2, 2022

“We were all there to see ghosts; we were all, I suppose, future ghosts.”

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The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 19, 2022October 19, 2022

“One day, a white sheet is draped over the ocean, the next it has burst into a million pieces. A ghost, within a matter of days.” Jack Ryan beautifully weaves history, personal narrative, and science writing in this reported essay for CNET. He comments on our current climate crisis from a front-row seat at the […]

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When Your Mother Is a Ghost Hunter

by Peter Rubin October 26, 2021October 19, 2022

“On the hunt with TikTok star Brittany Broski and her mother Heather Long, lead investigator of the Texas Ghost Gals.”

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Finally, the Truth Behind the ‘Haunted’ Dybbuk Box Can Be Revealed

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“The Dybbuk Box has captured the popular imagination, becoming the stuff of internet legend — and commerce.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, History, Nonfiction, Story

The Corpse Rider

by Colin Dickey October 24, 2019January 20, 2023

“I could see the ghosts,” recalled Lafcadio Hearn about his early childhood. Late in life, he became a celebrated chronicler of Japan’s folk tales: stories of strange demons and lingering visitations.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

Girl on the Third Floor

by Longreads March 15, 2019October 19, 2022

Some places are as haunted as our pasts.

red, green, blue, and orange pac-man ghosts painted on a gray wall, with bright green grass on the ground
Posted inReading List

Boo: A Reading List About Ghosts

by Sara Benincasa August 28, 2018October 19, 2022

Ghost stories point to a reality beyond our own — or, at the very least, to an expanded understanding of what this plane of existence encompasses. (And they’re fun.)

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Giving Up the Ghost

by Sari Botton August 20, 2018October 19, 2022

After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.

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