There’s something unsettling about old houses.
Maybe it’s the way they creak at night after everyone has gone to bed. Maybe it’s the feeling that lives once lived there never completely left. Or maybe some places simply remember more than they should.
Upstairs? is part of the Dark Crossroads Collection, a series of supernatural suspense stories inspired by strange dreams, unexplained moments, forgotten places, and the uneasy feeling that sometimes the world around us is thinner than we realize.
This particular story began with a dream so vivid that I woke up and immediately wrote it down before the details disappeared. In the dream, a man named Edon Bain answered me from upstairs in a house that didn’t have a second floor.
That was enough to start the story.
What followed became something darker, stranger, and far more personal than I expected.
As you read, you may begin noticing the small sounds around your own house a little differently:
a creak overhead,
a voice in another room,
a chair that seems slightly moved from where you left it.
And if you happen to hear footsteps above you late at night…
you might want to make sure your house actually has an upstairs.
This edition of Upstairs? is also available in Spanish, French, and German for readers around the world who enjoy atmospheric supernatural suspense and dark mystery fiction.
Thank you for stepping into the Dark Crossroads Collection.
Just be careful reading it too late at night when you’re alone.
Some stories have a way of lingering after the final page.
Genre: Horror
Maybe it’s the way they creak at night after everyone has gone to bed. Maybe it’s the feeling that lives once lived there never completely left. Or maybe some places simply remember more than they should.
Upstairs? is part of the Dark Crossroads Collection, a series of supernatural suspense stories inspired by strange dreams, unexplained moments, forgotten places, and the uneasy feeling that sometimes the world around us is thinner than we realize.
This particular story began with a dream so vivid that I woke up and immediately wrote it down before the details disappeared. In the dream, a man named Edon Bain answered me from upstairs in a house that didn’t have a second floor.
That was enough to start the story.
What followed became something darker, stranger, and far more personal than I expected.
As you read, you may begin noticing the small sounds around your own house a little differently:
a creak overhead,
a voice in another room,
a chair that seems slightly moved from where you left it.
And if you happen to hear footsteps above you late at night…
you might want to make sure your house actually has an upstairs.
This edition of Upstairs? is also available in Spanish, French, and German for readers around the world who enjoy atmospheric supernatural suspense and dark mystery fiction.
Thank you for stepping into the Dark Crossroads Collection.
Just be careful reading it too late at night when you’re alone.
Some stories have a way of lingering after the final page.
Genre: Horror
Used availability for Mac Fortner's Upstairs