How do you determine the value of what’s human? And how do you tell it apart from what’s not? Take the elevator to the 54th floor of the Excelsior Company to find out.

11-year-old Barnaby Wallace finds himself in an underground world of ghouls where he’ll have to learn to become one at the Grenfell Ghoul Academy.

There is a coffee shop on Route 70 where life, death, who you are, and who you aren’t converge.

The perfect place for an abyss? A notebook passed down through the generations.

New feature! Every Sunday at StoriesFromElsewhere.com, I’ll take three words from one of our Substack community members and turn those into a story. This week’s words Stapler Skin Water come from Pip @piponyourshoulder on Substack. Thanks Pip!

Cats. Cats. Cats. Cats. Cats. Cats. Cats. Cats. And one little prisoner.

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It’s a hot, humid day in Philadelphia . . . in November. Rodrigo hopes to sell enough lemonade to be able to buy a pass to his neighborhood’s cooling center. But a recluse in the rowhouse next to his lemonade stand takes the lemonade stand in an unexpected direction, opening a doorway into something that connects us all, that we can barely begin to understand.

Looking for stories that plunge you into alternate universes, unthinkable events, and unexplainable encounters? Then check out the Halloween Series from Stories from Elsewhere—a deliciously strange, deeply human set of tales that will leave you feeling unsettled and in awe of the world you think you knew.

#3 Wheels

#11 The Strange Fate of Flight QF11

#28 Lights Over Wacouta, Minnesota

#33 Baby Frankenstein

#35 The Rocking Chair