Three Oregon horror stories for sleep. Three hours of long-form first-person narration in the tradition of Stephen King. Real high desert and real coastline. Skinwalker country in Harney County, a haunted lighthouse on the southern coast near Port Orford, and a cult compound in the empty country between Burns and the Idaho border.
One narrator takes a winter caretaker job at a cattle ranch in Catlow Valley and is given one rule. Do not open the door at the back of the bunkhouse. It has been nailed shut since nineteen forty-seven. By the eleventh night, the voice at the bunkhouse door is one he knows.
One narrator takes the off-season caretaker position at a decommissioned lighthouse on the southern Oregon coast. The lens has been gone since nineteen eighty-seven. The wiring has been cut. Some nights the light comes on anyway. A voice on the satellite phone asks him to climb the stairs. It does not stop asking.
One narrator is a propane driver with eleven years on the route. He has six rules. The sixth is that the gate stays closed. On a winter afternoon he crests the ridge to find the gate hanging open and the property he has been driving to for almost a decade no longer the property he knew.
Three stories. One state. The wrong country to be alone in.
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Sleep well.