The Night My Shadow Moved
Caribbean Gothic Horror · Young Adult · The Duppy Chronicles Book One
They say duppy follow who afraid. But fear came looking for Zora first.
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Zora doesn’t tell anybody the first time her shadow moves. Telling somebody means believing it — and believing it means Grandma was right about everything. The spirits that walk soft-foot through the yard. The dead who don’t stay buried. The old debts that pass down through blood like eye color.
But the shadow keeps moving. It stops obeying the light. It shows up in places Zora hasn’t been. And when a camera won’t catch what her own eyes have seen, she’s left with only two people who believe her — her best friend Jaz, and a quiet boy named Theo who sees more than he says.
What Zora’s shadow wants is buried in her family’s history, in a name nobody speaks and a debt nobody paid. To stop what’s coming, she’ll have to walk into the oldest story her blood remembers — and say the name out loud.
The Night My Shadow Moved is the first book in The Duppy Chronicles — a YA horror series rooted in Jamaican folklore, where friendship, fear, and ancestry collide. Atmospheric, fast, and scary without the splatter: perfect for readers who like their ghost stories with history in the bones.
Themes
- Debts that pass down through blood, and the generation that has to settle them
- Being believed, and the cost of not being
- Jamaican duppy lore operating on its own terms, not explained away
- A grandmother who was right the whole time
Old debts pass down through blood like eye color.
Who this book is for
Young adult readers who want horror with history in the bones — and adults who grew up being told not to whistle at night and never learned whether it was superstition or instruction.
Read about duppy loreFrequently asked questions
Is this the first book in a series?
Yes. It is book one of The Duppy Chronicles. The Girl Who Sleeps With Her Eyes Open follows.
What is a duppy?
A spirit of the dead in Jamaican folklore. More on duppy lore here.
How scary is it?
Atmospheric and fast, scary without the splatter. Written for young adult readers.
Who is Miko Gray?
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