Great — here is Story 50, long, atmospheric, and deeply haunting:
50. “The Lantern Keeper of Wraithmoor Cliffs” – The Light That Leads You Nowhere On the storm-carved coast of Cornwall , where the wind screams like a living creature and the sea gnaws endlessly at the jagged rocks, stand the infamous Wraithmoor Cliffs . No lighthouse guides ships there anymore. Only a single lantern. A lantern that swings in the darkness, far out on the cliff edge. A lantern carried by a man who should have died a century ago. Fishermen claim they see him on fog-heavy nights — a tall, stooped figure dressed in the tattered coat of an old lighthouse keeper, his lantern glowing with a pale, ghostly green light. When the lantern shines, the waves grow quiet. When it flickers, someone is about to vanish. And when it goes out… the sea takes another soul. They call him: The Lantern Keeper of Wraithmoor. I — The Captain Who Didn’t Believe in Ghosts In 1903, Captain Elias Harrow , stubborn and proud, sailed the cargo ship Crimson Tide along the coast during ...