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[READ: October 21, 2025] “Window”
It has been six years since Ghost Box III came out….
After years of demand, the Ghost Box is back! Patton Oswalt’s much-beloved spooky-story anthology returns for a fourth edition, with the same trademark production details—magnetized box lid, anyone?—that Ghost Box fans have come to expect.
As always, working with Patton on Ghost Box IV was a dream, and we can’t wait to show you the nightmares that he’s wrangled and stuffed into the box this time around.
This story is set in the middle of nowhere. A government facility that has been shut down since World War II was recently reoccupied for research purposes. The man in charge was experimenting with supernatural concerns.
And then one day his prefab house was gone and in its place was an invisible box–perfectly straight lines in all directions. And inside of that box was an old house–like a Victorian postcard. There was a family in the house and the government men could see in, but it was clear the family could not see out.
It had been a few days since this happened and the man in charge–who just came on the scene–is furious that no one said anything sooner. But the men on the ground had been busy doing experiments and they knew (correctly) that if they went to Washington with this, they would be removed from site. The men had discovered two important things. Anything inserted into the clear wall would disappear. So a stick pushed half way into the box would come back with that half missing. And two, every fifteen hours or so, the window let its barrier down and things could go through it. They had been practicing with ice cubes. Most cubes simply disappeared, but every once in a while, a few would get through and plop on the lawn.
The next time that the opening happens, one of the men spontaneously jumps through and the family clearly sees him.
That’s when the trouble starts.
The story was a little slow at first but it really ramped up at the end.
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