Chapters tagged ghost

by Zeebop

Chapter 4

Roberta smoothed her skirts. One gloved hand picked up a candle, and held it aloft. "I have often sought proof of the supernatural. Of the survival of something after . My investigations have led me to some strange places, although to my surprise, the most interesting cases...

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Chapter 14

Miu's small, delicate hand slid out of the sleeve of her kimono to pick up another candle. "It was difficult, the first years here. The Japanese population was small, and mostly young men. There was when the young men looked at the white women, or at the Black women who...

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Chapter 18

Roberta took a deep breath, then leaned over to lift another candle. Its soft white glow seemed to form a halo for a moment. "In my studies of parapsychology and unknown phenomena, I have often wondered if truly is an end," she said, her voice suddenly cold and sepulchral....

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Chapter 23

Anya smiled. She rose to fetch the next candle. "Some legends have a hint of truth to them. Some legends are so powerful that people want them to be real. Want them so badly that, perhaps, they come true. I call this story... > THE GREAT BEAST RETURNS Sleepovers are better in...

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Chapter 25

"'Til do we part,'" Roberta said. "Many people have wished for a love that transcends this life. Wishing does not always make it so. Yet there was one case where—well. I will not say it proved life after , but it proved you should be careful what you wish for. I call i...

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Chapter 32

"I have heard of a necklace like that," Roberta said, as she rose to fetch the next candle. The wind had died again, as though the night held its breath. "It was part of a matching pair. The other takes the form of a gold vulva, on a smaller chain to be worn at wrist or ankle. I...

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Chapter 42

Miu stepped carefully down from the step of the shrine to fetch the next candle. "So many strange stories centered around this cemetery," she said. "It developed a reputation. Many gave it a wide berth, and entered only for funerals or to pay their respect to the dead. At night,...

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Chapter 46

"The witch trials in America were long over and done with when Dagon's Hollow rose from a railroad camp," Roberta said. "That is not to say that people had ceased to believe in witches or witchcraft, but the law would not persecute them. Those who felt afflicted and pointed finge...

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Chapter 53

"As you know," Roberta said, as she took up one of the remaining candles. "My studies are in parapsychology. Psychical research. Forces that seem stirred most by strong emotions. Love, lust, hate, betrayal, these seem to attract such activity more than anything else. I was called...

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Chapter 74

"Spirit photography," Roberta said. "Is difficult. How do you capture the intangible, the spiritual, the psychic residue left behind? Yet if we believe such beings do exist, that they can interact with our world, why is it so difficult to believe that we might capture evidence of...

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Chapter 91

Miu picked up the furthest candle from the dark. There weren't many left now. Everyone sat wrapped in shadow. "There was a story, that young women would tell each other," she said. "That a young bride who died a virgin would become a ghost, and prey on the bridegroom and his fam...

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Chapter 95

"This final case," Roberta said, as she secured one of the final candles. "Is more personal than the others. It involves my brothers, August and Winter, and the unexpected consequences of a well-meant gesture. I call it > THE CASE OF THE BROTHER'S GIFT They were twins, August a...

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Chapter 98

"Our game nears its end," Miu said, as she picked up her final candle. "But legends live on. For my final tale, I wish to revisit the oldest horror in this cemetery, one that still remains. So let me tell you about > THE RETURN OF THE SLIT-MOUTHED WOMAN It was a moonless night,...