Ghost stories from Maine

The Weight of June

I’m not proud of what happened that summer, but it happened. It started on a sweltering Tuesday in June, two days before my big piano recital at the community center....

The Lantern Keeper’s Bargain

In the coastal town of Greyhollow, where the sea fog rolled in like a living thing and the lighthouse beam cut through the murk like a knife, I learned that...

The Hollow Man of Mire Lake

When Elias was eleven, his grandfather took him and his older brother, Marcus, into the Hightower Range, a stretch of tangled forest and sliding shale that locals called the Hungry...

The Noose in the Corner

After I moved out of the bedroom with the closet incident, I took the spare room across the hall. It was smaller, but the walls were a fresh coat of...

The Walnut Table’s Revenge

It was the summer of 1979, and I was staying at my Aunt Hattie’s farmhouse in rural Ohio, a place that had been in our family since the Civil War....

The Ledger of Hollow Creek

The autumn of 1842 lay heavy over the Sawyer homestead, a sprawling 900-acre tract along the eastern bend of Hollow Creek. Margaret Sawyer, widowed two years prior, ran the farm...

The Bone Cradle

I remember the exact afternoon the nursery rhyme changed. I was five, kneeling on the cold linoleum of the hallway in our new house, a converted church on the edge...

The Hanging Congregation of St. Agatha’s

When I first moved to Blackhollow, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the town itself was holding its breath. The houses seemed to lean away from the street, their windows...

The Cardboard Sun

The old textile mill on Meridian Street had always felt heavy, even before the fire. When the renovation crew unearthed the tin box with the names and dates, we thought...

The Weight of the Tin Ceiling

It was a humid Wednesday, just past six in the evening, when I finished sealing the last joint on the rusty pipe in the old textile mill. My name is...

The Weeping Birch

I have two stories I rarely tell. One I’d rather forget, the other I keep as a sort of test. This is the one I’d rather forget. In the autumn...

The Blue Hour Stand

The alarm clock read 4:47 AM when I peeled myself out of bed, the floorboards of my old farmhouse creaking in protest beneath my feet. I’d been hunting this stretch...

The Thaw of the Weeping Room

When I was six, we moved to a creaking farmhouse in the Minnesota backwoods, a place where winter never truly loosened its grip. The house had a room my parents...

The Glass Wedge

When Lila and her partner, Julian, moved into her mother’s old farmhouse, they expected creaking floorboards and drafty windows, not the silent, persistent strangeness that greeted them. The house sat...

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