“A Ghost Story” by Mark Twain (1870)
“Then it occurred to me to come over the way and haunt this
place a little.”
Twain does it again with a welcome satirical break in the so serious streak of short stories I’d been reading.
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“Chemical 13!” by Michael Woods & Saskia Gutekunst (2009)
“Everything is fine.”
Comeuppance stories about Nazis getting the wrath they deserve don’t hit the same anymore, not when they are just still around in daily life.
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The Mafu Cage dir. Karen Arthur (1978)
“Do not smile during a sacred ritual.”
Whoa, Carol Kane. I mean I know she has horror chops from last year’s viewing of Office Killer, but that was still leaning into her comedic sensibilities. This is before Taxi and Kane gets to stretch more in this intense story about familial obsession.
