Haunted Houses
(issue #58)
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Haunted Houses
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Who Believes in Ghosts?
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Earliest Ghost Stories: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Israel, and the Roman Empire
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Ghostly Evolution
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Christian Ghosts
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Ghosts and Witch Hunts
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Spirits in the Age of Science
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Is that a G-G-G-host?
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Illusions and Hoaxes
By Daniel Loxton. This issue’s cover features a digital painting by Daniel Loxton. Reference modeling provided by Isabella Loxton. Thanks to classical folklorist Debbie Felton for research notes.
from the Introduction
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Hello!
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In this issue we’ll summon our courage, light a candle, and venture inside the ancient horror of haunted houses. Imagine walking dark hallways, peering into abandoned rooms. We strain to recognize unfamiliar shapes in the shadows. A cold draft stirs the cobwebs; outside, wind moans through the trees. We climb creaking stairs up into the unknown. Ahead of us, we — wait, did you hear something? Were those…footsteps? Our skin prickles with fear and tension. Breathless, trembling, we call into the darkness, “Is somebody there?”