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It was the summer I turned twelve, and my mother and I had come to stay with my grandmother in the small town of Cedar Hollow. The town was named...
Ghost stories from India
The Rite of the Hollow Grove
In the autumn of 2011, my cousin Priya and I were summoned to our ancestral village of Chandrapur for a peculiar ritual. Our grandmother, a formidable matriarch, had fallen into...
The Marble Footsteps at 23 Nilgiri Road
My family and I moved into the old bungalow at 23 Nilgiri Road in the summer of 2008. The previous owners had been so eager to sell that they’d accepted...
The Canine Vigil
It was the last stretch of our final semester, and the oppressive heat of the city made studying unbearable. My flatmates and I—Ravi, Meera, and I—had taken to pulling all-nighters...
The Mirror in the Kitchen
It was the winter of 2001, and I was seventeen, living with my parents in a cramped two-room flat in the heart of Kolkata. The city was still waking up,...
The Concrete Circle
Nadia had always been a skeptic, but her best friend Rohan was a true believer in the paranormal. They were both engineering students in the sprawling city of Pune, and...
The Weeping Wall
I never believed in ghosts, not really. Not until I moved into the old Meridian Arms, a crumbling apartment building on the edge of the industrial district. My roommate, Lena,...
The Floor Above
In the winter of 2008, a young man named Rohan, barely twenty-two, worked night shifts at a data processing firm in the outskirts of Pune. The company housed him and...
The Fourth Tree
It was a little past eight on a Tuesday evening when I first noticed the child. My friends and I had claimed a picnic table near the edge of a...
The Bone Ash Ledger
After finishing my engineering degree, I landed a job as a junior accountant at a cooperative bank in the city of Kanpur, in the heart of Uttar Pradesh. The city,...
The Static Hour
In the autumn of 2014, my mother had a fall at home, and we rushed her to a recently opened medical center near our new apartment. It was a minor...
The Muddy Steps
It began two winters ago, during my final year at the Armitage Agricultural Institute. I rented a room in a sprawling, two-story farmhouse that had been converted into a boarding...
The Laminated Map of Sector 12
The room was on the third floor of a building that had once been a textile mill, now carved into cheap lodgings for workers and students. The walls were the...
The Saffron Sari
Our new home on Cedar Lane was a far cry from the cramped apartment we’d left behind. It was a sprawling Victorian, with high ceilings and creaky floors, and for...
The Ashen Road
Karan had always prided himself on logic. As a final-year mechanical engineering student, he believed every mystery had a rational explanation, every shadow a source of light. So when his...
The Bell of the Hollow House
The summer of that year was unlike any I had known. The heat was oppressive, and the nights brought no relief, only a thick, suffocating darkness that clung to the...
The Lantern of Two Flames
In the autumn of 1983, my grandmother lived in a faded mustard-yellow house on the edge of Kharagpur, a town that clung to the railway lines like a stubborn burr....
The Lantern Man of Margham
It was late November 2019, and we were a group of nine crammed into a battered white Ambassador heading for the hill station of Margham, known for its dense teak...
The Hollow Palm
The train hissed to a stop at the small station of Alampur, and I stepped out into air that smelled of rain-soaked earth and jasmine. After four years in Bangalore’s...
The Signal in the Static
It was a Saturday in late October, and the air smelled of damp leaves and distant woodsmoke. My family and I traveled to a cousin’s engagement party at a country...
The Third Passenger
I had never given much thought to the supernatural. It was the kind of thing that existed in campfire tales and cheap horror movies, not in the sun-scorched highways of...
The Last Pendant
In 2009, my father’s cousin, Ravi, worked in Pune and lived in the suburb of Kothrud. His office was in Shivajinagar, and every evening he would commute back on the...
The Last Litter
My name is Arjun, and I moved into a flat in the outskirts of Thane in March. The building was one of the first in a new development, and the...
The Chilling Weight of April
In the dusty attic of my childhood home in the rural outskirts of Meridian, where the summer heat usually clung to every surface like a second skin, I was a...
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