Yes. You have 7 days from your purchase to request a full refund, as long as you have not read past 20% of the book.

Home › Store › Horror & Suspense › The Streetcar After Midnight

Read it tonight. It opens in your browser, no app, nothing to download.

Top rated Horror & SuspenseFiction & Literature

The Streetcar After Midnight

Name: The Streetcar After Midnight
Price: 6.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.7 (3 reviews)
Author: S. L. Marchand

by S. L. Marchand · published via Smithbook

The last St. Charles car of the night makes one stop that is not on any map. A night nurse keeps getting on it.

★★★★★ 4.7 · 3 reviews 63 readers English

The complete, finished book, not a preview or a sample
Read in your browser, kept in your library on any device
Delivered to your inbox within seconds of payment

7-day refund if you haven't read past 20%. See Terms.

Your own book page, built in one click

English · read in your browser in seconds
Read in your browser · kept on any device

★★★★☆

"You can hear the bell and smell the oaks. A little short, but it does not waste a line."

dou•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test · verified reader

Secure · Stripe Protected browser reader Seconds to deliver 7-day guarantee Lifetime access

Why read it here

The whole book, in your browser in two minutes. Yours for life, on every device.

The old way

A file you download, then lose in a folder, or a shelf you have to make room for. Easy to pirate, easy to misplace.

On Smithbook

Opens in a protected reader the moment you buy, saved in your library forever, and you buy it straight from the author.

Inside

What you get

Everything included

The complete, finished book, not a preview or a sample
Lifetime access from your Smithbook library, on any device
In your library in seconds, start reading right away
Buying directly supports S. L. Marchand

What it covers

ghost storyNew Orleansstreetcargrief

About this book

Delphine Aucoin rides the St. Charles streetcar home after every night shift at Touro. Most nights it is her, the driver and a man asleep against the window. Then one night the car stops at a station with a gas lamp and a wooden bench, a station that was torn out in 1951, and the woman waiting there is wearing a nurse’s cap from another century. A short, sad and unsettling ghost story about the people who look after us, and the ones who never stopped.

Look inside · First chapter

Delphine caught the 2:10 at Louisiana Avenue every night that she worked, which was five nights out of seven and some weeks six. The car came rocking down St. Charles under the oaks with its windows lit yellow and its bell ringing for nobody, because there was nobody on the neutral ground at that hour except her and the cats. The driver was always the same, an older man named Mr. Toussaint who nodded at her and never spoke. There was always a man asleep against the third window on the river side

Keep reading. Read the first chapter free →

Product details

Title: The Streetcar After Midnight
Author: S. L. Marchand
Format: Digital · browser reader
Language: English
Category: Horror & Suspense · Fiction & Literature
Delivery: In seconds · to your e-mail
Access: Lifetime · any device
Publisher: Independent · via Smithbook

Why buy it here

Not just another storefront

Straight from the author

Buy directly from S. L. Marchand. Most of every sale goes to the author, not a marketplace.

Protected & yours

Read in a protected browser reader with lifetime access. No sketchy files, no piracy of the author's work.

A community, not just a checkout

Follow the author, review the book, and join a community of readers around it.

63 readers already

Join them. Start reading in the next few minutes.

Get the book for $6.99

7-day guarantee

Read it. If it's not for you, we'll refund you.

You have 7 days to decide, as long as you haven't read past 20%. Write to support@smithbook.com with your order and that's it.

Full refundNo question askedOne e-mail is enough

Reviews

4.7

★★★★★

3 reviews

5★2

4★1

3★0

2★0

1★0

★★★★☆ · dou•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/30/2026

Great atmosphere

You can hear the bell and smell the oaks. A little short, but it does not waste a line.

★★★★★ · sha•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/30/2026

For every night nurse

I work nights at a hospital in Baton Rouge. This book understood me in a way that scared me a little.

★★★★★ · mei•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/29/2026

Beautiful and creepy

I cried at the end, which I did not expect from a ghost story. The station with the gas lamp is so vivid.

About the author

S. L. Marchand

I spent thirty years in the engine rooms of Mississippi riverboats, mostly at night, mostly alone with a lot of machinery that knocked when it wanted attention. You learn to listen down there. You learn that a river has moods and a boat has opinions. I retired to a shotgun house in the Bywater with a porch, a fig tree and a neighbor who tells me every ghost story she has ever heard, twice. My books are not about blood. They are about the sound in the wall that stops when you stand up, and the streetcar that comes by one stop too many. I write at the kitchen table after midnight, which my wife says is the problem.

See all books by S. L. Marchand →

Reader community

Follow S. L. Marchand on Smithbook

Get new releases, updates and a space to talk about the books, around the author, not a retailer.

Join the community →

Frequently asked questions

How do I read the book after buying?

You get an e-mail with a link to your personal library. No app or account setup needed. Read right in your browser, on any device, forever.

Do I download a file (EPUB / PDF)?

No. To protect the author's work, the book is read in a protected browser reader, not downloaded. That means no piracy, and it's always in your library on any device.

Can I get a refund?

Yes. 7 days from purchase for a full refund, as long as you haven't read past 20% of the book.

Is payment secure?

Payment is processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card number.

How fast do I get access?

Within seconds. Your delivery e-mail arrives within seconds of your payment being confirmed.