Ghost stories from Suriname

The Unfinished Meeting

The old library annex of Ashford University had always been a quiet place, but since Dr. Elias Thorne’s sudden death three weeks ago, it felt heavier, as if the air...

The Sunken Plot

Before her death, Mira had purchased a burial plot beside her beloved husband’s grave, a pact of eternity she had made when he passed. But when she moved to Canada...

The Lagging Step

The town of Grayhaven held a peculiar tradition, one that had been passed down through generations like a whispered curse. It wasn’t the usual warnings about dark forests or abandoned...

The Boiler Man’s Gate

The morning the plumbing failed in the old Meridian Hotel, I was down in the sub-basement, wrestling with a valve the size of a dinner plate. My name is Elias...

The Hollow Driver

It was my niece’s tenth birthday, and my wife, her brother, and I drove three hours to her farmhouse in the hills. We left around six, enjoyed the party, and...

The Uninvited Guest

My sister asked me to look after her twins for the weekend while she and her husband attended a wedding in the mountains. I didn’t mind; the pay was good,...

The Click of the Cedar Chest

I was fourteen when my mother got a job in Argentina, and I was sent to live with my aunt in her drafty Victorian house at the edge of the...

The Crib of Whistling Wood

I never put much stock in ghost stories. When my sister-in-law, Clara, lost her infant daughter, Elsie, to crib death, I told myself it was a tragedy, not a haunting....

The Hollow Promise

The heat pressed down on our valley like a wet blanket. I’m 26 now, but two summers ago, when I was a fresh graduate, I thought I could outrun the...

The Silent Whistle

My grandfather, Elias, used to tell me a story from his youth, a tale that never failed to send a chill down my spine no matter how many times I...

The Lantern in the Attic

When I was nine, my family moved into the old Millbrook House, a creaking Victorian relic on the edge of a dying town. My parents thought it was charming; my...

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