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Title: The Thirteenth BellLevel: Advanced (C1-C2)DescriptionIn the mountain kingdom of Orvan, twelve great bells tell the hours, and every child knows the rhyme that explains why there is no thirteenth: ring it, and the god sleeping beneath the mountain will wake. Sael, a deaf ap ...  Show more

Title: The Weight of Seven WindsLevel: Advanced (C1-C2)DescriptionOn the thirty-first morning of the Great Calm, eighty-four ships sit helpless on a sea as flat as beaten tin. The water barrels are nearly empty, the sails hang like laundry, and the priests say that the seven brot ...  Show more

Do you believe in curses? Do you think that misfortune is random? Or can be caused by someone? Today’s episode is all about curses. First, Sapphire tells the tale of a legendary Japanese creature who is created from a curse. Then, a young girl discovers what’s haunting her mother ...  Show more

In this short fiction piece, a young woman becomes convinced she is being haunted by an alternate reality and takes desperate measures to cast the intruder out. 

The heir of a cursed estate attempts to find a way to outsmart the Water Ghost of Harrowboy Hall

The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall [1894] by John Kendrick Bangs

Dracula wasn’t the only frightful fiction conjured by Irish author Bram Stoker… In this retelling of “The Judge’s House,” a Cambridge student is overcome with curiosity — then dread — as he faces an evil man’s terrifying legacy. Listen to Part 1 right here, then search “Haunted P ...  Show more