River Sleepers and Other Stories
What haunts a city is not always what's buried beneath it-but what it remembers.
In this chilling collection of literary horror, A. M. Runnels guides readers through the shadowed alleys, condemned houses, and half-forgotten corners of St. Paul, Minnesota-where the line between the living and the lost is as thin as a breath. Each story unfolds in a different time, capturing how the city shifts, forgets, and reveals-yet something strange always lingers.
In River Sleepers, an unhoused woman begins receiving messages written in her own hand-but in ink she never used. The Last Tenant follows a retired librarian who moves into a Lowertown tenement and begins to suspect the mirrors are watching her back. In Nickel Songs, a lonely man escapes into a timeless diner that offers more than just comfort food. And in The Inspection, a city inspector finds something unsettling beneath a quiet house slated for demolition-something that might still be alive.
Spanning decades but bound by place, River Sleepers and Other Stories explores the tension between memory and forgetting, community and isolation, and what it means to live in a city full of quiet hauntings. These stories blend the supernatural with stark realism, rooted in a deep love of local lore and the eerie hum of urban life.
For fans of quiet horror, subtle dread, and stories where place is as important as character, this collection offers a haunting meditation on time, trauma, and the invisible histories that shape our lives.
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