The Haunted House Spirit Medium

[When the talisman paper bursts into flames, I know another departed soul is about to speak]

With the bronze compass left behind by her master in hand, Lin Xiaoman, a spirit medium who communicates with the dead through rice divination, spends her days walking the boundary between yin and yang. A bloodied infant in a haunted house leads the way; a baby's wail emerges from a crumbling wall. Every dead soul repeats the same warning: "Don't believe what the living say..."

When the seventh missed call appears on a torn page from the ledger of life and death, memories erased twenty years ago begin to return. The Mirror of Retribution reveals the pact between her master and a vengeful ghost. And the wronged spirits that seem to be demanding lives all have human flesh beneath their fingernails.

Now the compass needle is pointing at the artery in my neck. It turns out the most vicious evil was never inside a haunted house.