Ghost stories from Medium

The Pipe and the Pane

The sign above the door creaked like a hanged man’s sigh, reading ‘The Dry Dock’ in letters that had once been gold. It wasn’t the sea that had named this...

The Third Marking

I was born with a veil over my eyes, my grandmother used to say. Not the literal kind, but a thin, shimmering membrane that let me see what others couldn’t....

The Cartographer’s Lament

The call came on a Tuesday afternoon, a voice crackling with static and worry. The woman on the other end, Clara, spoke of her late husband’s study. She described a...

The Lacework of Wisteria

The third morning of my first trip to Charleston found me lingering over chicory coffee in a sun-drenched courtyard, the air thick with blooming jasmine and the distant clang of...

The Lantern Man’s Farewell

At seventeen, I first saw the dead, or rather, they saw me, though they never seemed to notice. I called them spectres, not ghosts, because they appeared and vanished without...

The Granary of Unquiet Dust

Every October, I make the long drive north from Panaji to the old family estate near the Western Ghats. The road twists through forests that smell of rain and wet...

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