Painted Black

“''I could blame a phantom for those memories, but I knew, deep down, that the worst ghosts in the house were the ones we’d created ourselves. Specters of hate and fear and sadness that would haunt these halls long after we were gone''.”

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The tenth story in the Cruelest Months series.

Gordon Kramer grew up in a haunted house, surrounded by all sorts of ghosts and phantoms. After he grows up and moves out, he begins to worry that the new occupants are in terrible danger, and he makes one last journey into his childhood home to confront the spirits who reside there.

Characters

 * Gordon Kramer
 * Bethany Kramer
 * Jim Fisher
 * Rodney Fisher
 * The Eyeless Lady
 * The Hairless Boy
 * The Shadow Ghost

Settings

 * The Old House
 * Pacific Glade