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In the autumn of 2007, I traded the ceaseless din of Chicago for a silent patch of land in western Kansas, near the town of Hoxie. My parents had bought...
Ghost stories from Idaho
The Socket and the Snow
The winter my family moved to my grandmother’s house, the cold crept into the bones of the place like a living thing. The house sat at the edge of a...
The Cartographer’s Floor
The day Lila moved into the old farmhouse on Thurston Road, she knew something was off. The realtor had been overly cheerful, glossing over the fact that the house had...
The Pencil Trap
It began on a humid August night in the backwoods of Maine, where the air clung to your skin like a wet shroud. My friends—Jenna, Marcus, and I—were the kind...
The Paper-Thin Hours
My sister Lena and I grew up in the shadow of the Cinderbone Range, a chain of basalt peaks that looked like the fossilized spine of some colossal beast. Our...
The Unraveling of the Thread
The rain had been falling for three days straight, a steady drumbeat against the glass of my ninth-floor apartment. I sat on the cold, tiled windowsill, my knees pulled to...
The Unfinished Game
I’m Milo, and I’ve been seeing the dead since I was six. Over the years, their cold whispers and hollow eyes became as familiar as the creak of my grandmother’s...
The Static Between Floors
Marlene and I moved into the old farmhouse in the autumn of 1989, just as the leaves were turning brittle and the wind began to carry a low, mournful hum...
The Scent of Burnt Honey
The summer of ’84 found me patching up a two-story farmhouse that had been dragged from the outskirts of the county seat to the middle of a cornfield. The owner,...
The Call Before the Operation
Three years ago in early November, I traveled with two companions to a large city for a major operation. My doctors had found a serious blockage that required immediate attention....
The Late Call
Three years ago, on a rain-slicked October night, I was in the back seat of a rented sedan, my chest a cage of aching ribs, as my two close friends,...
The Light in the Hallway
It began three summers past. My sister Lena and I were staying the night at our aunt’s house. To picture the place, you enter through the front door and face...
The Static Child
I remember the night it happened, about three years ago, when my twin brother, Sam, and I went to stay at our cousin’s house. Her place was a renovated Victorian...
The Cinder Man
My name is Milo, and I’m sixteen. I live in a town called Ashford, which is about as ordinary as a place can get, unless you count the old paper...
The Lantern in the Lemon Grove
The summer I turned four, my family gathered at my grandmother’s farmhouse in the dusty heart of California’s Central Valley. The house was old, with a wraparound porch and a...
The Third Floor Tenant
In the autumn of 2011, my wife Lena, our two daughters, and I moved into a renovated Victorian on the outskirts of a small New England town. The house was...
The Last Tenant
In the autumn of 2005, I moved into a newly renovated studio on the top floor of a converted warehouse in the port district of Greyhaven. The building was a...
The Weight of the Air
We moved to the outskirts of Cedar Falls when I was fifteen, into a sprawling Victorian that overlooked the old Mill Pond. The house was a relic of a bygone...
Ghosts I’ve Roomed With
In the summer of 2004, I moved with my husband and 2-year-old daughter from Wyoming to Pocatello, Idaho. The apartment we moved into was actually a house that was built...
The Boiling Point
The kettle’s shrill whistle cut through the quiet of my grandmother’s farmhouse, a sound I hadn’t heard since I was a child. My name is Evelyn, and I had inherited...
Shadow Person Messing With My Wife
Laying awake this morning around 2 am my alarm clock straight out in front of me. I am laying on my left side, and the dog is laying at my...
The Door in the Wind
In the seventeen years I’ve lived on this ridge, I’ve never been one to scare easily. But the night I met the man who bought my old place, I felt...
The Glow and the Growl
It was a Tuesday night when the television flickered to life with a live feed of the Cavern Falls in the town of Redrock, Arizona. The falls were illuminated with...
The Reverse Lullaby
We had been living in the old farmhouse for eight years, ever since we inherited it from my husband’s aunt. The place was drafty and creaked with every gust of...
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