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.