Haunted House Notes: The Ninth Tenant

On a rainy night, the old house at No. 14 Chengnan Road welcomes its ninth lodger.

The fates of the first eight are all recorded in police case files: the first hanged herself from a loft beam, with seven copper coins scattered at her feet; the second drowned in a bathtub with no water in it, her fingernails packed with plaster dust; the third was strangled by an “invisible hand” in the living room, where the only evidence left behind was half a button marked by teeth...