Ghost stories from India

The Weight of the Hollow

I first noticed it in the autumn of my second year at the Armitage Peak Research Station, a remote outpost perched on a windswept ridge overlooking the boreal forest. The...

The Key in the Ash

My name is Arjun, and I have always been a skeptic. I grew up in the bustling city of Hyderabad, surrounded by the hum of technology and the glow of...

The Salt in the Walls

The old schoolhouse in Millbrook had been standing since the 1920s, and by the time I was in fourth grade, it had developed a personality of its own—creaking floorboards, drafty...

The Silent Visitor

I was jolted awake by a sound that didn’t belong to the night. It was a soft thud, like a book falling from a shelf, followed by a low creak...

The Angler’s Bargain

The house sat at the end of a gravel road in the Cascade foothills, a rambling Victorian that had seen better decades. I’d moved there after my divorce, seeking silence...

The Window on the Left

I never thought I would be writing this, but something happened that made me put it all down. Please forgive any clumsiness; I’m still shaking. I live in a small,...

The Rain’s Finger

The rain had been falling for three days straight, a steady drumming on the tin roof of my small cottage in the Appalachian foothills. I had moved there a year...

The Bolted Door

My wife’s parents, Harold and Edith, were visiting her Aunt Margaret in the coastal town of Dunmore. Margaret had recently moved into a sleek, modern apartment building called the Meridian,...

The Loom’s Lament

My mother, a woman of quiet nerves, used to tell me of a place we lived before I was born—a crumbling flat in the shadow of a decommissioned steel mill...

The Constant Gardener

I’m Mira, sixteen, and I’ve been keeping a secret for eight years. It started when we moved to a small town in the foothills of the Himalayas, into a sprawling...

The Cinder Mother

The old quarry road had always felt wrong. Even as a kid, I’d pedal my bike past the rusted gates and the ‘No Trespassing’ signs, convinced something watched from the...

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