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Peter Straub
A contributing editor to Conjunctions for many years, Peter Straub (1943–2022) authored numerous best-selling novels, including Ghost Story, and cowrote two books with Stephen King. A Grand Master of Horror, he won the British Fantasy Award, ten Bram Stoker Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, ten World Fantasy Awards, and was the recipient of several Lifetime Achievement Awards. “An Incident in Monte Carlo” is an excerpt from his posthumous unfinished novel Wreckage, which is forthcoming in 2025 from Subterranean.

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Vol. 83
Revenants, The Ghost Issue
Fall 2024
Coedited by Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow

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November 20, 2024
As a big surprise for her birthday, I gave in and bought the dog she’d been wanting for a long time. A frisky little caramel-colored dachshund she immediately named Fredo after the weak Corleone brother in The Godfather, her favorite movie. I thought it an odd name but it was her choice and her dog.
Translated from Chinese by Deanna Ren
November 13, 2024
In the South, on the nights of a sweltering summer, we children like to sleep in the middle of the road. No cars pass by overnight; everyone plops their water-cooled bamboo beds outside, and the moment of excitement arrives. Ah, the corpse drivers! Ah, the Spider Demon King! Ah, the Milky Way!
November 6, 2024
His body had been in the trunk some hours already when she began to feel him next to her in the cab as well. She couldn’t see him at first, could only sense he was there. But soon the hair on her right arm stood up and the air beside her began to shimmer. Before she began to see him fully, she whipped her gaze away.