My Years Running a Paper Effigy Shop

If I told you that people fear ghosts three parts, while ghosts fear people seven; that "Do no wrong in life, and you won't fear a ghost knocking at your door in the dead of night" is a lie, would you still believe in good and evil, and in cause and effect?

People believe the wronged have someone to blame and debts have someone to repay. But if you say ghosts come from people, and people can do evil for no reason, why can't ghosts?

Barbers, corpse bearers, corpse retrievers, embalmers, paper effigy makers.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.