Midnight in the Dark Forest

The Window


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Something has been coming to the window of a remote New England farmhouse. It is not quite the creature of old folklore. It feels older than that."The Window" has its roots in one of the most enduring vampire legends in English folklore: the story of Croglin Grange, a tale of a nighttime visitor at a farmhouse window in rural Cumberland. The legend first reached print in the 1890s through Augustus Hare's memoirs, and it gained a much wider audience decades later when Alvin Schwartz adapted, and truncated, it for young readers in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, where it became one of the collection's most quietly unsettling entries.This version keeps that central image, a face at the glass, a house that should feel safe but doesn't, but relocates it to a remote corner of New England in the early 1960s. What comes to the window here isn't quite the creature of old folklore. It feels older than that, something ancient, perhaps cosmic, drawn to a house that was never as safe as it seemed.Headphones recommended. New horror narrations regularly. Subscribe if you'd like to hear more.

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Midnight in the Dark ForestBy Aaron Marshall