Crooked Spine

✦ Quarterly horror in print ✦

Stories that follow you home.

A small horror magazine out of nowhere in particular. Four issues a year (or more), in paperback and EPUB. Themed reading periods. We publish what scares us.

Cover: The Halloween Ghost

The Halloween Ghost

▸ Theme: JOE WHITLOW

In the glow of porch lights, a thirteen-year-old boy sets out for one last night of trick-or-treating and finds that childhood is harder to leave behind than he imagined.

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After the Last Exit

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