Ghost stories from Virgin Islands, U.s.

The Ceiling’s Weight

The island was a green tooth in a mouth of blue, and my sister Elena had rented a cottage on its far side, where the jungle pressed against the windows...

The Last Floor Bell

The rehabilitation center for the blind and visually impaired was a converted tuberculosis sanitarium from the 1920s, perched on a hill overlooking the town of Harrow’s Point, Maine. The main...

The Loft Light

I was eight, my brother Eli was eleven, and we shared the attic room of our creaking farmhouse. The room had a single, bare bulb hanging from a frayed cord,...

The Ledger’s Weight

In the late 1990s, I worked as a file clerk at an insurance firm in a dusty, sun-beaten town in the Caribbean, not far from the old sugar mills that...

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