These are not traditional haikus Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry. A haiku has three lines with five syllables in the first, seven syllables in the second, and five syllables in the third. Traditional haikus have a specific subject matter, but my haikus are not traditional. Here is an example of one of my haikus: Once the howling stops Is when you should really run They can taste your fear I have enjoyed writing haikus since grade school (which is many, many years ago) and recently began to twist them into micro flash fiction stories with rather dark subject matter. This is a collection of my favorite haiku horror stories with a handful of individual haikus mixed in for good measure. I hope you enjoy reading them.