Ghost stories from Puerto Rico

The Violet Visitor

The Grand Meridian Hotel had a reputation for elegance and old-world charm. My family and I were thrilled to spend a night there during our road trip. The lobby was...

The Hollow Stones of Cedar Hollow

I live in the high desert, where the houses are scattered like lost marbles across the brittle earth, and the mesas loom so close they seem to breathe through your...

The Half-Raised Shade

The first time I noticed it was the morning we finally unpacked the last box. We’d moved into a sprawling Victorian house in the Berkshires, a place my mother had...

The Mango Tree’s Memory

The first time I noticed the mango tree was different, I was fourteen. I had grown up in the shadow of that sprawling, ancient tree in our backyard in Vega...

The Cattle Gate

Before I moved to the coastal sprawl of San Diego, I was obsessed with the paranormal. I devoured every ghost story, every film about haunted asylums or demonic possessions. That...

The Lantern at the Window

We were in the highlands of a foreign country, a place where the air was thin and the nights pressed down like a veil. My cousin’s quinceañera was the reason...

The Cold Spot in the Kitchen

I was six, maybe seven, that morning. The house we lived in then was an old farmhouse on the edge of town, with creaky floors and a basement that always...

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