Ghost stories from Sri Lanka

The Locks in the Wall

The old farmhouse always smelled of wood smoke and dried lavender, especially in the late afternoon when the sun slanted through the dusty windows. I was nineteen, home from college...

The Looms of Mulapadu

I always thought memories were like photographs: static, faded, and safely tucked away in albums we rarely open. But some memories are more like dormant spores, waiting for the right...

The Unattended Crawl

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon when I decided to tidy up the cluttered corners of my apartment. The building was quiet, bathed in the amber glow of a sun...

The Lantern at Low Tide

In the autumn of 1942, in the coastal village of Greyhaven, three inseparable friends—Martha, Elsie, and Thomas—spent their evenings by the old pier. Elsie and Thomas were secretly betrothed, their...

The Hollow Light at the End of the Hall

In the small coastal town of Duskhollow, the salt air clung to every surface like a persistent ghost. The house on Gull’s Crest Lane had been empty for years, its...

The Blue Hour at Kalpalli

I never understood Aanya’s obsession with the sea. She would sit on the crumbling jetty at Kalpalli, watching the waves roll in, her nose buried in a paperback, as if...

The Locked Wardrobe

I have always been a magnet for the unexplained, a collector of strange tales that others dismiss as nerves or imagination. But there is one story that has stayed with...

The Last Train to Nowhere

In the autumn of 2019, I found myself in the dusty town of Silver Hollow, a place where the train only stopped once a day, and the locals swore the...

The Keeper of August House

My grandmother, Elara, had a gift that ran in the women of our family, though we never called it that. She called it ‘the knowing.’ It came to us as...

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