• English - Horror

    The House on College Street

    Rishabh Sen Episode 1 – The Key in the Dust The old mansion on College Street stood between two bookstalls like an unwelcome intruder in a crowded marketplace. Its façade leaned as though tired of holding its own weight, blackened with soot and rain. Once it must have been a proud colonial house with verandahs, high arched windows, and a tall iron gate. Now, the gate sagged on its hinges, its bars eaten by rust, and the windows wore shutters nailed from the inside. Even in the middle of the afternoon, when the book market throbbed with students shouting for…

  • English - Horror

    The Tea Estate’s Secret

    Srirupa Deka The story begins in the sprawling tea gardens of Assam, where the rolling hills are carpeted in green, and the morning sun often struggles to pierce through a shroud of heavy mist. For the laborers who spend their days plucking delicate tea leaves, the mist is more than just a veil of nature—it is the cloak of a tale whispered across generations. They speak of the “White Lady,” a spectral figure said to wander the gardens after dusk, her presence heralded by a voice so hauntingly sweet that even the strongest men cannot resist its pull. By day,…

  • English - Suspense

    The Last Lantern of Buxa

    Rishabh Sen Gupta Episode 1: The Vanished Trekkers The forest had been restless that week, or so the villagers of Rajabhatkhawa said, though none of them would put it into words when Kavya Dutta asked, notebook in hand, recorder tucked away in her bag. They shook their heads, muttered something about elephants straying too close, or fog that refused to lift, or roads washed out by sudden rains, but no one mentioned the three trekkers who had vanished two weeks ago on their way to Buxa Fort. The police had filed their usual report, search parties had trampled through the…

  • Assamese

    অন্ধকাৰী বন

    অরিন্দম কলিতা ৰাতিৰ নিস্তব্ধতা বৰপেটাৰ সেউজীয়া বনৰ মাজত একেবাৰে ভিন্ন ধৰণৰ। গছবোৰৰ ডালত ৰাতিপুৱাৰ শিশিৰ থুপুৰি আছে, কেঁচা মাটিৰ গন্ধে নাক ভৰাই দিছে। কিন্তু সেই সৌন্দৰ্যৰ মাজত অচিন শীতলতা ঘূৰি ফুৰিছে। বনৰ মাজত এপাহ গাঁৱৰ মানুহে কেতিয়াবা সেই বনক “অন্ধকাৰী বন” বুলি ডাকে। কথাটি উভতি আহিছে বহুদিনৰ পূৰ্বৰ পৰা—যেতিয়া নায়েকী নন্দিনী নামৰ এজনী যুবতী ইয়াত হারাই গৈছিল। পুৰণি মানুহে ক’ব যে নন্দিনীৰ চকুৰ শূন্য দৃষ্টিৰে এতিয়াও গছৰ ফাঁকেদি তাকিবলৈ পোৱা যায়। মানুহে দিনত ইয়াক পাৰ হ’লও, ৰাতিপুৱা কোনো সাহসেৰে বনক প্ৰৱেশ নকৰে। সেই ৰাতি, ডিঙি নদীৰ পৰা উজনি গাঁওলৈ যোৱা পথত ৰবি নামৰ এজন যুবক বাইকত উঠি আহিছিল। নতুন চাকৰিৰ…

  • English - Horror

    The Hollow Guest

    Rudra Sen The road to Blackmoor village twisted like a serpent through the mist, narrow and slick with rain, the headlights of Daniel’s car cutting pale arcs across hedgerows that seemed to lean in and whisper as he drove. He was late, later than he had planned, and the countryside had that unnerving quality of stretching endlessly, as though he were circling the same patch of earth again and again. His editor had sent him here on what was meant to be a small piece—an article on forgotten English villages, the ones people left behind when the railways stopped running…

  • English - Horror

    The House That Spoke

    Eleanor Gray Part 1 – The Arrival The rain had begun long before Anna reached the edge of the village. It was not the sudden monsoon torrent of her childhood stories, but a relentless English drizzle that sank deep into her coat, her shoes, even her bones. She tightened her grip on the worn leather suitcase, her grandmother’s initials still faintly etched on its brass clasp, and tried to steady her breath as the taxi pulled away, leaving her alone on the narrow country lane. Before her, shrouded in mist, rose the house. It was not a mansion—though once, perhaps,…

  • English - Horror

    The Midnight Game

    Episode 1 – The Dare The night it began was not chosen for any omen or occasion; it was picked out of boredom. That was the most dangerous part. If the six of them had gathered in the old house because of belief, because of faith in the stories they had read online, perhaps there would have been a kind of reverence in their actions, a hesitation that might have saved them. But boredom—boredom never allows reverence. It breeds mockery, and mockery is exactly what the thing they called into that house was waiting for. The house itself was a…

  • Bangla - ভূতের গল্প

    কাশীপুরের ভিটে

    অভিজিৎ রায় পর্ব ১ কালো মেঘে ঢাকা সন্ধেটা যেন গ্রামের বুক থেকে আলোটুকু শুষে নিয়েছিল। নদীর ধারে পেঁচানো পথ দিয়ে হাঁটছিল অর্ণব। কলকাতা থেকে সে এসেছিল কিছু কাজের সূত্রে, কিন্তু এই গ্রামে এসে তার মনে হচ্ছিল, শহরের ব্যস্ততা থেকে মুক্তি পাওয়া মানে এই নয় যে মন শান্ত হয়ে যাবে। বরং প্রকৃতির অন্ধকারের ভেতরেই এক অদ্ভুত নিঃসঙ্গতা ঘিরে ফেলছিল তাকে। গ্রামটার নাম কাশীপুর, লোকসংখ্যা অল্প, আর চারদিকে ঘন জঙ্গল। তার থাকার ব্যবস্থা হয়েছিল এক পুরোনো বাড়িতে—লোকেরা যাকে বলে মজুমদারদের পরিত্যক্ত ভিটে। লোকজন তাকে আগেই সাবধান করেছিল, রাত হলে যেন একা বাইরে না বেরোয়। অর্ণব ভেবেছিল, এগুলো নিছক গ্রামীণ গুজব, যেখানে ভূতের…

  • English - Horror

    Whispers of the Shyambazar House

    Anirban Sen The tram rattled past Bagbazar and screeched towards Shyambazar, its iron wheels sparking against the stubborn tracks as dusk settled over North Kolkata. The air smelled of roasted peanuts, incense smoke, and an old kind of weariness that clung to the city’s bones. Ananya adjusted her satchel against her shoulder and stepped off at the crossing where five roads tangled together like restless veins. She had been summoned by the trustees of an old zamindari estate, tasked with sorting through a century’s worth of brittle manuscripts and letters that had been abandoned in the crumbling mansion known simply…

  • Assamese

    অন্ধকাৰৰ ছাঁ

    হিমাংশু বৰুৱা প্রথম পৰ্ব বৰষুণৰ ভাৰী ধাৰাটোৱে ডিঙি মাৰি আহিছিল কঁকালত সোমাই থকা পথটোৰে। আজি তিনিদিন ধৰি নৰমণিষে মানুহ নেদেখা গাঁওখনৰ উপৰত মেঘজাক গামোচাৰ দৰে ওলমি আছিল। ভেজা ধোঁৱাৰে ঢকা সেই আঁতৰুৱা গাঁওখনক সঘন জঙলৰ মাজেৰে ছাঁকু বৰুৱাই ঘূৰি আহিছিল। ছাঁকু বৰুৱা—পৰীক্ষামূলক ডকুমেন্টাৰী চলচিত্রৰ এজন নতুনকৈ নাম উঠা নির্মাতা। তেওঁৰ মনত পৰি গৈছিল এক ডাঙৰ প্ৰকল্প, অসমৰ গাঁৱৰ ঠেকে ঠেকে থকা ভূতৰ কাহিনীসমূহ ধৰি চলচিত্র তৈয়াৰ কৰাৰ। গাঁওখনৰ নাম আছিল দেউলগাঁও। কেতিয়াবা ডেকা ল’ৰাসকলে গাঁওখনক কাহিনীৰ গাঁও বুলি হাঁহি হাঁহি কৈ থাকিলেও, অচিন গাঁৱলৈ আহি ৰাতি পাৰ কৰা লোকৰ সংখ্যা সৰহ নহয়। লোকে কয়, গাঁওখনৰ পূবত থকা ভাঙি পৰা মন্দিৰটোৰ…