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I never believed in the cold spots that old houses are famous for, not until the night my mother and I heard the growl. We were in the den, the...
Ghost stories from Australia
The Last Lantern in the Mangroves
Kai was twenty-two, an only child from the Torres Strait Islands, living in Cairns. His mother had died of a sudden aneurysm when he was nine, and his father, a...
The Hand That Held the Doll
When I was four, in the autumn of 1987, my family lived in a cramped apartment above a laundromat called Suds & Scents. My room was a converted pantry, its...
The Lantern-Glow Tail
It was a Tuesday night, and I was still awake at 2 a.m., scrolling through old photos on my phone. My fingers paused on a picture of Jasper, my ginger...
The Stitch in the Yarn
My fingers moved in the familiar rhythm of the knitting needles, a comforting click-clack that filled the silence of the small apartment. I was finishing the left sleeve of the...
The Floorboards in the Hall
I have always been a skeptic wrapped in a believer’s skin, someone who reads every ghost story and listens to every whispered account, always hoping for a crack in the...
The Hat That Crossed the Creek
It was the summer I turned fourteen, and my dad had dragged our family up to a godforsaken patch of outback Queensland to visit his old mate, Tom Gunderson. Tom...
The Painted Window
The summer I turned sixteen, my little sister Mira and I started cataloging the impossible. It began with small things—a flowerpot that had moved three inches overnight, the persistent smell...
The Stairwell at 3:27
The first time I saw it, I was coming down from the attic, a box of old Christmas ornaments in my arms. The stairwell light was a sickly yellow, barely...
The Cradle of Static
It began not many months ago, at the edge of dawn, when the world outside my window was a smear of grey and the only sound was the hum of...
The Lantern of Persistent Motion
Marta and I had just settled into our new apartment above a shuttered cannery in the small coastal town of Dunmore. The place was a relic, with peeling paint and...
The Mulberry Man
I’ve always found comfort in the pre-dawn hours, when the world is still and the only sounds are my own footsteps and the occasional rustle of a nocturnal creature. Last...
The Oakwood Incident
When we inherited the Oakwood house from my great-uncle, we knew it came with history. The deed mentioned the property had been in the family for generations, but the house...
The Pale Runner
It was late October, and my wife Elena and I were driving home from a dinner party in the countryside. The quickest route back to the city was a narrow,...
The Widow’s Drain
I live in the coastal town of Saltmarsh, a place that sits on the edge of a sprawling salt marsh. The town is riddled with drainage ditches, concrete channels that...
The Vet’s Report
I never thought I’d see a lion in the middle of a Kansas wheat field, but that’s exactly what I saw the first time I laid eyes on the boy....
The Salt on the Window Sill
It was the winter of ’09, and I was crashing at my buddy’s place, a run-down farmhouse on the edge of a frostbitten cornfield. My boyfriend, Dev, and I had...
The Amber Room
I am writing this on a crumpled receipt, the only paper I could find in the dark. The power’s been out for three days, and the phone lines are dead....
The Lantern Maker’s Vigil
In the autumn of my junior year, I transferred to St. Agnes Academy, a sprawling campus that had once been a convent. The main building, a hulking Victorian manor, still...
The Cellar of Shifting Sand
The day we rolled into the arid flatlands of western Texas, I felt a chill that had nothing to do with the air conditioning. The house was a sun-bleached skeleton,...
The Man Who Swallowed the Lantern
When I was a child, I lived in a small, isolated village in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, where the nights were so dark you could feel them pressing...
The Drip in the Static
The Drip in the Static I moved to the outskirts of Reykjavik three months ago, into a converted fish-canning factory that now boasts ‘industrial-chic’ apartments. My girlfriend, Sigrid, loves the...
The Circuit’s Lament
The house was an old Victorian on Bramblewood Lane, its bones creaking with every gust of wind. I was fourteen, staying with my grandparents while my mother worked abroad. The...
The Third Crossing
The old man who ran the ferry across the Umber River had a reputation for silence, but not for lies. My grandmother, a woman who kept her feet firmly on...
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