Ghost stories from Pets

The Ghost of Lazarus Lane

On the first Tuesday after the harvest moon, I lost my dog, Buster, a golden retriever who had been my shadow for nine years. My partner, Lena, found him stiff...

The Pelt of the Garden

In the autumn of that year, I moved into a rented cottage on the edge of the moor, where the heather turned the land to rust and the wind carried...

The Lantern at Hollow Creek

When I was seven, my family moved to a rambling house on the edge of Hollow Creek, a place where the water ran black and the trees leaned in as...

The Keeper of the Garden

The first sign that something had gone terribly wrong was the soil in the back garden. It began to shift, as if something beneath the surface was breathing. I noticed...

The Cold Room on Maple Street

In the summer I turned fourteen, I was dating a girl named Elena. She had shown me where she lived, a modest two-story house on Maple Street, and she was...

The Lantern in the Gully

The town of Ashburn, nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, was built on land that had been wild for centuries. Before the first settlers, it was a dense...

The Pavement-Marked Line

It was just past three in the morning when Mara finally left the all-night diner. She always walked the five blocks home, a habit she’d formed in college and never...

The Tail in the Corridor

I never believed in ghosts. Not really. I was the type who would explain away every creak and flicker as the house settling or a draft. But then we lost...

The Patchwork Sentinel

In the autumn of 2018, my family and I moved into a rambling Victorian house on Cedar Lane, our first home. Across the street stood a neglected craftsman bungalow, its...

Phantom Pets

I can’t remember exactly how old I was, but I was roughly around 11-13 years old. We’d always had pets growing up from mice to hamsters, chickens and later on...

The Weight of the Night

I never thought I’d have to say goodbye to them both in the same week. My two German Shepherds, Max and Ruby, had been my entire world for nearly a...

The Hollow Ticker

When the Peralta family moved into the old farmhouse on Cedar Ridge, they knew it needed work. The paint peeled like sunburned skin, the porch sagged, and the wind had...

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