The lighthouse ghost
December 11, 2006 3:33 PM Subscribe
Does anyone recognize this old Scottish lighthouse ghost story?
I haven't heard anything like it since I first read it.
Basically there's a lighthouse keeper in a remote area of Scotland. Every time the lightkeeper goes to bed, some weird monster drifts from the depths of the lighthouse into the room, hovers over the bed, and is sufficiently frightening or hypnotic to where the guy in bed can't get up. The monster somehow drinks a fill of blood, and the lightkeeper can't remember what happened in the morning. Eventually it goes on long enough, night after night, to where he dies of blood loss.
This was in a ghost story collection (probably Victorian era, maybe M. R. James or the like) that I checked out at the school library about 25 years ago. I seem to recall there were some other interesting spine tinglers in there, too.
Sound familiar?
I haven't heard anything like it since I first read it.
Basically there's a lighthouse keeper in a remote area of Scotland. Every time the lightkeeper goes to bed, some weird monster drifts from the depths of the lighthouse into the room, hovers over the bed, and is sufficiently frightening or hypnotic to where the guy in bed can't get up. The monster somehow drinks a fill of blood, and the lightkeeper can't remember what happened in the morning. Eventually it goes on long enough, night after night, to where he dies of blood loss.
This was in a ghost story collection (probably Victorian era, maybe M. R. James or the like) that I checked out at the school library about 25 years ago. I seem to recall there were some other interesting spine tinglers in there, too.
Sound familiar?
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posted by iconomy at 6:15 PM on December 11, 2006