Ghost - Scary Stories

THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 1: It Saved Me. I'm Going to Teach It to You, Step by Step.

There was a stretch of her life, not long ago, when the fear came and would not leave. She was not a foolish woman. She ran a full, loud household; she was the one other

THE LISTENER — Part 4: The Last Voice It Learns Is Yours.

She promised, at the very start, to tell you how to stay alive. She kept every other promise. She told you she survived. She told you she'd give you the rule. She told yo

THE LISTENER — Part 3: My Sister Begged at My Door All Night. I Never Made a Sound.

There was one other house on that road with a light in it.The woman who opened the door was about seventy, and she knew everything before Marion said a word. She raised a

THE LISTENER — Part 2: I Talked to My Sister for Five Minutes. The Phone Was Never Off the Hook.

She stopped answering. She thought going quiet was the same as being safe.Every night it got better. The first phrases came out wrong — rhythm off, stresses in the wrong

THE LISTENER — Part 1: It Said My Name. In My Own Voice. From Outside, Where I Wasn't Standing.

It starts as warmth. That's the part she needs you to understand, because if you're waiting for it to sound like a monster you'll miss it, the way she nearly did.Marion n

THE PROVIDER — Part 4: I Opened My Own Front Door, and It Was Walt.

The week she left was the coldest of the year, and nobody was holding her anywhere. The door was right there. It was always right there. That's the whole horror of what W

THE PROVIDER — Part 3: There Is No Law Against Being Helped. That's Why It Has Lasted Thirty Years.

She went looking for Bev because of four words she'd been too busy defending Walt to hear: I said all that too. Not I felt that. I said that. Word for word. A stranger ha

THE PROVIDER — Part 2: A Woman Warned Me in the Grocery Store. I Defended Him.

By December she was warm all the way through, and that turned out not to be a good thing. The debts got consolidated, gently, so she wouldn't have to face the collectors.

THE PROVIDER-Part 1: He Was the Kindest Man in Town. Every Kindness Was a Door Closing Behind Me.

The year she turned forty-one, everything came apart — the marriage, the job, custody of her two kids — and by October she was sleeping in her car. Then Walt found her. E

WHAT CAME BACK — Part 4 of 4: I Had to Drown My Son a Second Time to Save My Daughter

The last day of July is the hottest of all, the reservoir hits bottom, and the drowned town stands fully bare under the moon — which means Nora is out of time. The boy is

WHAT CAME BACK — Part 3 of 4: The Woman Down the Road Kept Hers for Forty Years

The reservoir falls forty feet and a drowned town rises out of the mud — stone walls, a half-melted steeple, and a graveyard breaking the surface in neat pale rows. At th

WHAT CAME BACK - Part 2 of 4: My Daughter Said "That's Not Toby." I Told Her to Be Quiet.

By morning the boy is still cold — cold in the white July heat, cold to the touch at the breakfast table — and Nora makes her choice: she smiles, feeds him, and starts bu

WHAT CAME BACK - Part 1 of 4: My Drowned Son Knocked on the Door. I Let Him In.

Episode 250. Thank you for 250 nights in the dark with us! The summer he came back was the hottest anyone could remember. Fourteen months after her eight-year-old son dr

Dog Days - (Episode 4 of 4) - "Cooler"

The storm finally breaks over the dead city, and the cool air Dana prayed for becomes the thing she fears most — because it clears the room, throws the curtains wide, and

Dog Days - (Episode 3 0f 4) - "Keeping Company"

With the water gone and her own mind unraveling in the heat, Dana refuses to leave the frail neighbor she stayed behind to protect. She pours fresh water by the chair eac

Dog Days - (Episode 2 of 4) - "An Honest Man"

The water dies to a trickle, then to nothing, and the heat begins working on Dana's mind as surely as her body — time slipping, shapes moving at the edges of empty rooms.

Dog Days - (Episode 1 of 4) - "The last ones up"

A record heat dome seals the city, the power fails for good, and one by one the residents of a nine-story walk-up flee north — until only Dana and Edith, the frail old wo

The Gaps (Episode 4 of 4) - "One Person"

Martin comes at nine in the morning with a folder and a detective inspector's name. Nora is ready. The evidence the other Nora assembled — the paint sample, the repair re

The Gaps (Episode 3 of 4) - "The Other Side"

Nora listens to all eleven voice memos. In order, across one long night, she learns everything the other Nora has been building for eight months during the gaps: the acci

The Gaps (Episode 2 of 4) - "Evidence"

Nora goes back through eleven years of journals looking for patterns she missed. The gaps cluster in October. They began, she realises now, the autumn after Deborah died.