Ghost stories from New Zealand

The Kneland Prayer

The house on Kneland Avenue was a mistake from the first day we moved in. My parents saw ‘character’ in its crooked porch and overgrown garden, but I saw a...

The Brake Van of Remembrance

Marta’s husband, Erik, had flown to Oslo to be with his ailing mother, leaving her alone in their ground-floor apartment in the converted railway station of Blackwood Junction. Her younger...

The Thirteenth Floor of the Ashford Hotel

My sister, Elena, and I shared a room in the old Ashford Hotel, where our parents had taken the position of night managers. The hotel was a grand, decaying relic...

The Dust of Unfinished Farewells

My husband, Elias, carries a strange burden: he sees the lingering threads of the dead. It is not a gift he cherishes; it is a constant, unwelcome weight. He has...

The Translator’s Glitch

The old farmhouse on Cedar Lane had always hummed with a quiet, uneasy energy, but my mother, Ruth, had never been one to dwell on such things. She was a...

The Static Between Stations

It was the summer of 1998, and I was seventeen, staying with my grandmother in her old farmhouse outside of a town called Millbrook. The house had a certain heaviness...

The Frequency of Static

The house on Kettlewell Lane had a smell, not of decay or mold, but of ozone and old copper, like the air after a lightning storm. My family and I...

The Last Tenant of Mulberry House

I was sixteen when my mother’s second husband, Marcus, decided we needed to move back to his hometown to care for his aging grandmother, Eleanor. We left our cramped apartment...

The Second Visit

It had been nearly four months since I first saw the crawling girl. I had almost convinced myself she was a product of a sleepless night, a trick of the...

The Hollow Face

My first memory is not of a lullaby, but of a hollow stare. It was born in the crooked silence of our rented house on Thornwood Lane, a sprawling Victorian...

The Cold Spot in Ward 3

It happened three winters ago, when I was working the night shift at St. Agnes Hospital, a crumbling relic of a building that had been scheduled for demolition for years....

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