Folklore

01 Al Azif

AL AZIF

Red John

The cataloguer’s desk at the bound-manuscript room closed at six. Nabil El-Sayed stayed. He had a key because someone had ...

10 Cropsey

CROPSEY

Red John

The dare was always the same. You went to the old school after dark. You stayed long enough to say ...

09 Van Meter Visitor

VAN METER VISITOR

Red John

Van Meter did not have a name for it until the third night. The first night it was only a ...

08 Kushtaka

KUSHTAKA

Red John

The tide was going out when the voice said his name. Thomas Lane had walked the shore path below Sitka ...

07 Pontianak

PONTIANAK

Red John

The jasmine arrived before she did. Arif Rahman was on the plantation road after midnight because the last bus had ...

06 Mad Gasser of Mattoon

MAD GASSER OF MATTOON

Red John

Mattoon locked its windows in September, which was not a thing Mattoon had ever had to do. The war was ...

05 Kuchisake onna

KUCHISAKE-ONNA

Red John

The rain made the alley look longer than it was. Kenji Sato had taken it because the main street was ...

04 La Lechuza

LA LECHUZA

Red John

The first cry sounded like a woman. That was how it always began, out past the last streetlight on the ...

03 El Cucuy

EL CUCUY

Red John

The house went quiet in the old way, room by room, until only the kitchen clock was left to argue ...

02 Melon Heads

MELON HEADS

Red John

Wisner Road did not want headlights. That was the first thing Mara Cole understood, though she would not have said ...