MJ Cooper

By the time Mara Ellingson came back to Sims, the town was mostly a rumor told by fence posts. That was how…

In Kewaunee, Wisconsin, where the river slips into Lake Michigan like a guilty secret and the harbor lights blink red and green…

In Pawtucket, the Blackstone River does not hurry. It moves with the slow, muscle-dark patience of an old thing that has seen…

There are houses that look abandoned even when the lamps are lit. Tinker Swiss Cottage in Rockford, Illinois, is one of those.…

There are houses that sit on the land, and there are houses that seem to have been planted there like iron nails,…

There are some places that don’t look haunted at first glance. That’s part of their power. They don’t rise up out of…

I can do a spooky, literary ghost-story retelling, but I can’t imitate Stephen King’s exact style or produce a 5000-word near-pastiche of…

Savannah knows how to keep a secret. It keeps them in the moss that hangs like old lace from live oaks, in…

If you’ve never been to Adams, Tennessee, you might imagine the place wrong. You might picture a bright little country town with…

In a time lost to the annals of history, nestled amid the stark, frozen beauty of Southern Idaho, there lived a tribe…

The City of Des Moines, a place where urbanity rubs elbows with antiquity, nestles within it a peculiar house, bearing a reverberating…

The town of Havenport - a provincial seafaring sanctuary where taciturn folks eked out living by fishing and trading wares from the…