Ghosters Author:Ralph Robert Moore When someone you love dies, are they gone forever? — Meet the Ghosters, and the desperate people who hire them. — In our modern world, only Ghosters know what comes after death. What stays behind. And what dwells between. — Ghosters are a small, loosely-connected group of individuals who travel the highways of America curing people of their hauntin... more »gs. For as much money as they can negotiate from each client. They are legitimate. But they are not nice.
Here are the known Ghosters:
Stan Costello. Works with Bud Hardy. Their specialty is buying and selling bottled ghosts. For the right price, they'll bottle a fresh ghost.
Clay (last name unknown). Homely. Cold. All the food he eats tastes like mud. The apparent leader of the Ghosters. Handles the more frightening cases.
Tilda Clem. Six foot seven. Never fit in anywhere. Somewhat sympathetic to the people she takes on. But not much.
Patrick Kelly. Tall Irishman with an onion-shaped head. Along with Stan and Bud, maybe the most human of the Ghosters. Will never say a bad word about anyone. But a lot of blood on his big hands.
Matt (last name unknown). Young African-American traveling with Patrick as an apprentice, to see if he'll fit in with the group. He has the talent. But does he have the stomach?
Imagine a building where only the top two floors are haunted (and the bottom two floors are a thriving shopping mall); a haunted doll house inside an otherwise unpossessed home; family estates that are hundreds of houses long, each new house attached to the front of the previous one, the older homes disappearing into the swamps like a centipede; a haunted house that travels across America.
Imagine ghosts that can only manifest in water (like the inside of your dishwasher, or your shower stall); ghosts who believe they're still alive, pay their mortgage each month, and can interact with others; bottled ghosts that are bought and sold like vintage Coca-Cola signs; ghosts that have to share a crowded space within an animal.
If you thought life was complicated, find out what death is like. There are neeks, plums, siliths, smudges, flesh ghosts, spirit ghosts, prayer ghosts, inbreeding ghosts, and that great white shark swimming in the sea between life and afterlife, The Fear Ghost.
The stories comprising this 95,000 word novel are ten known cases in which Ghosters were involved.« less