Ghost stories from United Kingdom

The Silent Button

Three years after we moved into the rookery, I still couldn’t shake the feeling that the house was holding its breath. The place was a converted Victorian schoolhouse, all creaking...

The Unfinished Portrait

The old house was a relic of a forgotten century, its timbers breathing sighs that settled into my bones. I was fifteen, spending the summer with my grandmother, a woman...

Who Are They?

In October 2008 my family moved in to a new town house. The area was new and had just been farmland before they built on it. When we moved in...

The Counting House

When I was five, my family inherited a decaying Georgian townhouse in the heart of a city that never slept, its red-brick facade stained with two centuries of soot. The...

The Static Garden

The first time I woke up unable to move, I thought I was dying. I was 28, living in a basement apartment in Portland, and the ceiling was a maze...

The Quiet Visitor

On a Tuesday in late autumn, Maya sat cross-legged on the worn floral couch, the television murmuring a sitcom laugh track that felt intrusive in the empty house. Her mom...

The Wall That Let Go

In our old home, my bedroom door always stayed open. From my bed, I had a clear view of the long upstairs corridor and the large decorative plate that hung...

The Shadow in My Room

My mother told me this story from when I was very young. I have no memory of it myself. My parents are sensible people, not easily frightened. For several nights...

The Secret in the Attic

When I was about fourteen, I often spent time at my friend Mia’s house. It was an old place, filled with creaky floors and dusty corners. Mia had mentioned that...

The Lantern’s Debt

Elara was eight the summer the lighthouse keeper died. She and her sister Maren lived with their parents in the coastal town of Saltmarsh, in a tall, narrow house that...

The Hollow Wall

I haven’t slept in my own room for three weeks now. Ever since that thing in the closet tried to pull the breath out of me, I’ve been crashing on...

The Boiler’s Lament

On a rain-lashed October night in 2019, my cousin Reece promised he’d come over to binge the old horror flicks we loved as kids. By midnight, the storm had knocked...

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