Five Stories to tell, five spirits to pacify.

Hannah Warden has been Overmere’s sole Wyrder since her father’s mysterious death a decade ago. She leads a ghost Walk every night without fail, at eight o’clock on the dot. It’s her responsibility: it’s her curse. It’s a burden she needs to share before she loses her mind.

Tonight, her recently acquired apprentice will tag along for his second ever Walk. Adnan has not long moved from a miserable life in a faceless city to this rural town nestled between sweeping hills and glassy lake.

He’s struggling to find his place: she’s struggling to keep going alone. He’s caught between social awkwardness and an unpredictable temper: she’s trapped by a birthright that she cannot escape.

This might be the purpose he’s spent his whole life flailing around for: this could be the support she needs to get just one night a week to herself.

This evening’s Walk begins at the haunted clock tower, where once upon a time a handyman named Walter Bracket met his untimely end, prompted some say by the devil worshipper Malachai Jones. From there, Hannah and Adnan will lead a trio of Walkers to visit a notorious tome buried in the guts of the local library, then to a toyshop with an infamous item that keeps returning no matter how often it gets sold, and finally up to a much-photographed tourist spot with epic views of Overmere Lake’s obsidian-mirrored surface, a place where a certain local legend hosted exclusive and disturbing dinner parties.

Such a small group should be easy to manage… except it becomes clear from the start that they are being followed. Has Walter broken free of his haunting? Or is something more sinister at play?

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