Ghost stories from Bahrain

The Hand Under the Quilt

It was a sticky August night, the kind that makes the air feel thick as syrup, and I was hunched over my laptop in the shared study of our off-campus...

The Cremation Gift

In the scorching summer of 2009, my family lived in the dusty outskirts of Jalpa, where the sun bleached the adobe walls and the only green came from the prickly...

The Lantern Room

The night my cousin Marco vanished from the old lighthouse on Pyre Point, I was twelve and he was ten. We were spending the summer with our grandmother, who had...

The Man Who Didn’t Fit the Door

When I was six, I knew the night had a shape. It bent and twisted around the corners of our small apartment, pooling in places where the light from the...

The Green-Eyed Visitor

The night had a texture to it, like the air itself was thick with something unseen. Iris and her partner, Marcus, had settled into their usual routine: lights out, phones...

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