Spooky Stories Night

Five voices. One dark and delightful evening. Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature invites you to Spooky Stories Night — a live reading of ghost stories, urban legends, and tales best told after dark.

Join us on Wednesday, October 28th at 6:30pm as six local authors take the stage to share original spooky fiction in an evening built for community, curiosity, and a little bit of a chill. Whether you're a longtime lover of horror or just here for a good story, this is a night to gather with fellow readers and celebrate the storytellers shaping our literary scene.

Bring a friend, grab a seat, and settle in — because the best stories are the ones told out loud.

We’ll be featuring local authors reading from their newest and latest writings, stories, and novels…

Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature presents writers, musicians, and other artists, while giving back to the creative community and to our neighbors. (https://telhilit.org)

Cynthia Gómez is the author of Muñeca, the story collection The Nightmare Box and Other Stories, and a Tin House and VONA alumn whose short fiction has published in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Pseudopod, Nightmare Magazine, and numerous anthologies.

Loren Rhoads is the author of In the Wake of the Templars, a space opera trilogy. She’s co-author (with Brian Thomas) of the As Above, So Below books, a dark urban fantasy duet about a succubus and her angel. Her short stories have appeared in Best New Horror, Strange California, Fright Mare: Women Write Horror, Sins of the Sirens: 14 Tales of Dark Desire, and much more. Unsafe Words is the first full-length collection of her short fiction.

Kristina Ten has written about lovers experiencing erosion, demigods attending desert music festivals, spirits lurking in the backs of bathhouses, and seals granting wishes at the bottom of Lake Baikal. Her stories appear in McSweeney’s, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Uncanny, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine, came out October 7, 2025 from Stillhouse Press.

Tamika Thompson is author of The Curse of Hester Gardens (Erewhon/Kensington),  Unshod, Cackling, and Naked (Unnerving Books), which is the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards WINNER for Horror, and which Publishers Weekly calls “powerful,” “unsettling,” and “terrifying,” as well as author of Salamander Justice (Madness Heart Press). She served as fiction editor for Foreword INDIES Award-winning anthology, Graffiti. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Interzone, Prairie Schooner, and The New York Times, among others.