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The Unraveling of Hattie Blackwood

Hattie Blackwood was six when she first overheard her mother on the phone, her voice thin as a spider’s thread. ‘She talks to the corners, Martha. Not like pretend friends....

Psychics, Witches, And Ghosts. Oh My!

This was when I was like 7 or 8, it was about 9:30 at night and my mom and I were downstairs watching TV. My mom went to wake my...

The Gown in the Static

In 2011, I took a position at a lakeside resort in the off-season, a sprawling lodge that had seen better decades. I met my future wife, Elara, there; she was...

The Unpainted Circle

My grandfather built our house in 2015, a modest two-story in the foothills of the Appalachians. The land had been in our family for generations, but the house itself was...

The Broken Chalk Line

I never believed in ghosts until the winter of my thirteenth year, when the old servant’s quarters of Blackwood Manor became my refuge from the rain. I had been sent...

The Lantern’s Guests

When I was seven, my grandmother owned a crumbling lighthouse on a desolate stretch of coast. The keeper’s cottage, where we stayed, was cozy enough, but the outhouse, a rickety...

The Wall That Breathed

I was housesitting for my aunt while she took her six-year-old, Mia, to visit their grandmother upstate. Her old farmhouse, nestled at the end of a dirt road that seemed...

The Tarot Reader’s Vengeance

Elara had always been sensitive to the unseen. Growing up in the fog-drenched town of Pemberton, she’d learned to live with the whispers of the dead, the cold spots in...

The Lullaby of the Lost

My grandfather’s farmhouse stood at the edge of a vast, whispering wheat field that turned to silver under the moon. I was six, and my parents had sent me there...

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