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My name is Elara, and I’ve always been fascinated by the stories that cling to our town like moss to stones. Not the sanitized versions told to tourists, but the...
Ghost stories from Singapore
The Lanterns of the Mangrove
It was a sweltering evening when Mei and her friends, along with their guide, Raj, rowed their boat into the heart of the Sundarbans. The dense mangrove forest swallowed the...
The Iron Chain
In the autumn of last year, my cousin Mira and I decided to explore the abandoned railway tracks on the outskirts of our town. Locals whispered about strange occurrences there,...
The Chain in the Smoke
During the seventh lunar month, when the veil between worlds grows thin, my cousin Rina and our friend Akash convinced me to join them for a late-night walk along the...
The Hollow Night Concierge
At seventeen, Marcus had worked the night shift at the Melvin & Co. distribution hub for six months. It was a monotonous job, packing boxes of industrial lubricants and listening...
The Glass Bead Pact
In the humid, labyrinthine corridors of the Oasis Residence, a condominium that hugged the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Maya found herself confined to the penthouse suite she shared with her...
The Bellhop at the Gilded Finch
Two winters ago, I was working the night shift at the Gilded Finch, a decaying hotel perched above the salt marshes, where the fog rolls in thick enough to swallow...
The Red Lantern’s Debt
The predawn air clung to my skin like a damp shroud as I trudged along the narrow mountain path to the village school. The sky was a bruised purple, and...
The Lantern Keeper’s Bargain
For years, I’d kept my encounters with the unexplained locked away, but tonight I’m setting them free. My colleagues, Dr. Elena Marsh and Professor Thomas Reed, were respected in the...
The Bloom in Her Hair
My grandparents told me this story, and they swore it was true. It happened during their honeymoon in a quaint mountain town, at a bed-and-breakfast that had been converted from...
The Ninth Visitor
My grandmother, Elena, was the keeper of the story. She told it to me on the night before her funeral, her voice a dry rustle like leaves skittering across asphalt....
Fragrance Out Of Nowhere In Home
This is not so scary experience but a mild one. But still the questions remains same, how did it happen? FYI, I don’t use perfume neither my wife uses it...
The Railing’s Glint
It had been ages since I last set foot on this site, but the pull of the written word always drew me back. Our family has always been attuned to...
The House on Hemlock Lane
The summer I turned twelve, my family moved to the outskirts of a small town called Ashford, nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Our new home was...
The Dry Dock at Dusk
I never believed in ghosts. Not really. I had my rational explanations for everything: drafts, pipes settling, the mind playing tricks after too much caffeine and too little sleep. But...
The Weeping Window
It started with a single, rusted nail. I was twelve, the summer my family moved to the old Harbinger House, a dilapidated Victorian at the edge of a town that...
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Ledger
It was the salt-crusted ledger that first caught my attention. I had moved to the remote Norwegian island of Værøy to work as a night auditor at the only hotel,...
The Lantern Line
I remember the summer I turned twelve, the summer my family moved into the old shophouse on Lim Kim San Road. My father had inherited the provision shop from his...
The Lantern Keeper’s Last Vigil
The island of Karang Ancam, off the coast of a bustling Southeast Asian nation, was once a thriving fishing village called Kampung Damai. A mysterious fever, said to have been...
The Levitating Mat
In 2019, I was house-sitting for my aunt while she was in the hospital recovering from a bad fall. She lived in an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere,...
The Amber Room of Ashworth
The Ashworth house stood at the end of Maple Lane, a Victorian relic with a sagging porch and windows that stared like dull, dead eyes. My grandmother, Eleanor, had owned...
The Last Cup of Chrysanthemum Tea
The summer heat clung to the walls of my mother’s cottage in the village of Ashcombe, a place where the thatched roofs sagged like tired shoulders and the air smelled...
The Painted Veil of Bedok
The Painted Veil of Bedok The sun bled orange over the HDB blocks of Bedok, casting long fingers of shadow across the car park. It was 1987, and the estate...
The Keeper of the Lantern Room
The lighthouse at Blackfriar Point had been a fixture of my childhood, a lonely sentinel on a cliff overlooking the churning gray sea. My grandmother, Elara, had been its keeper...
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