Ghost stories from France

The Red Door at Rue des Lilas

In the summer of my eleventh year, my family took a trip to the French countryside. We rented a sprawling manor near the village of Saint-Aubin, a place called Les...

The Signalman’s Ledger

My wife, Clara, and I had booked a week in a converted signal box in the highlands of Scotland, a remote spot overlooking a disused railway cutting. The place was...

The Salt in the Floorboards

In the autumn of 2014, I moved into a Victorian house that had been divided into flats, taking the top floor. The previous tenant, an elderly woman, had died in...

The Candle at Half Past Five

I was eleven, living with my grandmother in the remote village of Ashford Hollow, nestled in a valley where the fog rarely lifted. My room was at the end of...

The Field of Tall Grass

In the summer of 2016, my family and I drove deep into the French countryside to stay at a converted farmhouse called Les Chaumes. The brochure promised rustic charm, and...

The Warped Glass

My Gran, Edna, kept a rundown inn called The Gander’s Rest, a crooked three-story building that leaned into the wind like a drunkard. It sat at the edge of a...

The Cartographer’s Copper Coin

Our family’s arrival in the village of Vernay-le-Buisson felt like stepping into a faded photograph. The stone house, with its ivy-choked walls and crooked shutters, had been my father’s childhood,...

The Gilded Torch

The summer I turned twenty-four, I went to Europe with my two best friends, Clara and Marcus. We had grand plans to see every museum and palace we could afford,...

The Tidal Room

The wedding was a small affair, held in a vineyard-turned-inn in the rolling hills of New Zealand’s Marlborough region. My wife, Elena, and I had planned a quiet honeymoon: a...

The Static Between Frequencies

I’ve never been one to believe in ghosts, not really. As a radio engineer, my world is built on frequencies, wavelengths, and the tangible hum of electricity. But there is...

The Lantern of Old St. Vitus

The return flight from Prague had been uneventful, but as I scrolled through the photos on my camera, a chill crept down my spine. Hundreds of golden orbs floated in...

The Keyhole Portrait

My name is Elena, and I’m writing this down because I need someone to know what happened to me and my cousin, Marta, during our summer trip to the small...

The Linen Figure

In the summer of 2019, my family and I rented a rustic cottage in the remote Finnish countryside. The cottage was old, with creaking floorboards and a distinct smell of...

The Spice Cabinet’s Claw

Three winters ago, I landed a gig as the pre-dawn cleaner at the Carriage House, a posh eatery tucked into Boston’s North End. The place had been a stable in...

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