Monstersin the Mills

DEEP IN THE WEEDS, THEY WAIT. Behind graffitied fences or obscured by woods, the abandoned mills of New England watch…for thrillists and historians, urbexers and developers, or just the average passer-by. Omnipresent and looming, the mills lure the innocent to their mysteries, secrets…and terrors. The We are Providence writers hunt what lurks among the crumbled bricks and strangling sumac. A widower on a demolition crew wakes the revenants. A musician rents a foundry’s rehearsal space…and otherworldly tenants practice on him. A lonely girl combs the ruins to find an unsettling friend. A bitter punk moves into a refinery where her best friend vanishes. A criminal breaks into a cloth factory to discover a sentient—and sinister—machine. These sixteen terrifying tales and two poems suggest when abandoned mills beckon, it’s best to ignore them. After all, they’ve come to collect their due.