Ghost stories from El Salvador

The Cinder Gift

The house at 13 Raven’s Lane had always felt like a held breath. My grandmother, Marta, called it the ‘breathing house’ because of the way the floorboards creaked and the...

The Hollow Keep

The old watermill at the edge of the Morrow Valley had been abandoned for decades, its wheel clogged with silt and its timber frame groaning like a dying beast. I’d...

The Glass-Windowed Patio

I was five when we lived in that sprawling house in the hills outside San Vicente. My mother, my older sister, and I shared the master bedroom at the end...

The Tunnel Singer’s Bargain

In the highland village of San Vicente, where the mist clung to the cobbled streets like a shroud, my cousin Luisa was twelve, hovering on the cusp of womanhood. The...

The Weight of the Looms

The bus ride from the capital to the village of San Rafael was a descent into another century. Pavement gave way to rutted dirt, and the air thickened with the...

The Boy in the Rain

In the summer I turned fifteen, my parents shipped me off to a village tucked in the highlands of Guatemala, hoping the old ways would straighten out my rebellion. My...

The Lantern in the Canopy

I was twelve, not eight, and it was my grandmother, not my grandfather, who led me down the mountain that night in the highlands of Guatemala. We had stayed too...

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