Caribbean & Diaspora Storytelling
Miko Gray
Caribbean Gothic Horror · Young Adult
Ghost stories rooted in Jamaican duppy folklore, told in real teen voices, where friendship, fear, and ancestry collide. Atmospheric and fast, scary without splatter, and there is always a leftover shadow.
Miko Gray writes for readers who grew up being told not to whistle at night and never learned whether the warning was superstition or instruction. The books take that question seriously.
The Duppy Chronicles is built on Jamaican spiritual tradition rather than borrowed horror convention. No exorcists, no Latin, no rules imported from somewhere else. The dead in these books behave the way the dead behave in Jamaican practice — they want acknowledgment, they carry unsettled debt, and they come to the people who can see. The horror comes from what a family has agreed not to discuss.
The teen voices are the point. These are contemporary American kids with Jamaican grandmothers, fluent in group chats and AP History and the specific exhaustion of being told a thing is nothing when you can see it plainly. The folklore is not explained for outsiders. It operates.
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