Ghost stories from Dominican Republic

The Stain That Breathes

My name is Diego, and I’m sixteen, living in a cramped apartment on the third floor of a four-story walk-up in the old colonial zone of Santo Domingo. The building...

The Pale Woman by the Cot

My great-aunt Marta was the one who told me this, years after the family had buried the memory of it. She was a practical woman, a farmer’s wife, not given...

The Rocking Chair’s Passenger

I grew up in a small coastal town in Puerto Rico, where the heat was a constant companion and the electricity flickered like a dying firefly. My best friend, Miguel,...

The Denim-Clad Messenger

I never believed in omens, not until that sweltering August night when the air in our barrio thickened like congealed blood. My name is Rafael, and I grew up in...

The Visitor at the Harvest Table

When I was eleven, my family moved from the city to my grandmother’s farm in the rural heartland, a place called Grey Hollow. The farm had been in our family...

The Perfume of Night

My name is Clara, and I have a peculiar affliction. It began in childhood, a strange sensitivity to the unseen. I can smell the dead. Not decay, not exactly, but...

The Caved Cushion

My name is Mara, and until last summer, I’d never believed in ghosts. Growing up in Brooklyn, the only spirits I knew came in bottles at my abuela’s apartment, and...

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