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A misty figure floating beyond the end of the world. The eerie sounds of pianos streaming from Jennings practice rooms with no one at the keys. The spine-chilling feeling of eyes watching you from the woods. 

What comes to mind when you think of the seasonal thinning of the veil? Alumni share their original non-fiction account of hauntings at ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø, micro fiction, and poetry about the spooky side of autumn. Read if you dare. 

by Jeffrey Perkins MFA ’09 

Atlas Obscura Co-Founder Dylan Thuras '04 on ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø, Travel, and the Unexpected

By Ashley Brenon Jowett
Illustration by Nate Padavick

As a homage to Dylan Thuras ’04’s Atlas Obscura, we’re sharing seven of the website’s wondrous ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø-area places. You will barely be able to resist using the map for a spooky road trip this fall.

Director of Alumni and Constituent Engagement Shay Totten '91 reflects on his first month back at ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø College.

More than 100 people attended the Ben Belitt Colloquium on Arts and Literary Culture in Tishman Auditorium on ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø College’s campus on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. They joined panelists Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown, the MacArthur Award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem ’86, celebrated poet Camille Rankine, and moderator and ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø faculty member Benjamin Anastas to learn about the life and work of Queer Black poet and essayist Reginald Shepherd ’88, an underrecognized member of the ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø literary community in the eighties. Below is a piece Lethem wrote for and read at the event.