Cover of The Moth Hours

Horror · Dark Fantasy · Psychological

The Moth Hours

Gregor Vane

Something has been reading the diary before you do.

A folklorist collects the accounts of eleven villages that all report the same three nights in late summer, when the lamps must be left unlit and the diaries must be left open.

Reading time
2 h 28 min read
Pages
136
Language
English
Recommended
18+
4.3 · 377 readers
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Story world

The Lowland parishes, where the custom is older than the church that tried to end it and the moths arrive on the same date every year.

RitualInherited fearCustomDreadFascinationCold awe

Characters

  • Dr. Wren Callow

    Folklorist

    Does not believe, and takes precautions anyway.

  • The Verger

    Record keeper

    Has attended sixty-one Moth Hours.

Timeline

  1. First recorded year

    Three nights are struck from the parish calendar.

  2. Every summer since

    The lamps stay unlit.

  3. This year

    Someone lights one.

Preview

A fifteen-second trailer, then the opening pages as they were first printed.

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Opening pages

The custom was simple, which is how you know it was serious.

Leave the diary open. Leave the lamp unlit. Do not write anything down until morning.

End of preview

Soundtrack

  1. 01Unlit Lamps
  2. 02Wings Against Glass
  3. 03Three Nights

Reader reviews

  • “I put it down twice and picked it up both times.”

    Nadia F.

  • “Folk horror done with real elegance.”

    Erik J.