Fall, 1968. Everybody who dies leaves something behind. So why is there nothing of Nathaniel’s grandfather anywhere in the Thorne house?

Eli warns him to be careful, but Nathaniel climbs into the attic anyway. Under the far eave he finds a locked trunk and a bundle of letters that were never sent, written in a careful, old-fashioned hand about a bargain struck in a churchyard long ago. As he reads, the attic grows colder, and behind him, in the dark, a page begins to turn.

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Content note: this episode contains grief, the death of a child, and supernatural menace.

Written by Philip James.

Fall, 1968. A teacher finds Nathaniel behind the toolshed, talking to no one at all, and for the first time he has to lie to protect his friend.

Then Eli disappears for three days. When he comes back, a name rises out of him like a word left over from a dream, and frost forms in a ring at noon. Many miles from Cedar Hollow, an old man sits by a window, writing the same two words over and over until the pencil tears through the page.

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Content note: this episode contains childhood fear and supernatural menace.

Written by Philip James.

Fall, 1968. Nathaniel Thorne has started asking about the grandfather no one will name, and his father’s silence says more than any answer could.

An old photograph turns up with a face that won’t stay in the past. A neighbor leans in with one question too many. And in the churchyard, a man stands with his shadow falling the wrong way. He doesn’t turn around until he knows he’s being watched.

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Content note: this episode contains family secrets, grief, and supernatural menace.

Written by Philip James.

Cedar Hollow, Pennsylvania. Autumn, 1968.

Nathaniel Thorne has a friend nobody else can see. Now something else has started to see him.

A woman stands in the church aisle where she shouldn’t be. A shape waits at the foot of Nathaniel’s bed, and even Eli won’t say its name. And at half past two in the morning, his mother lies wide awake, already certain that something walked through her house that night.

October Falls is a gothic horror anthology. Every season, a new town. Season One: Dead End on Wexler Street.