The Ouija Session by Chris Raven

Author:Chris Raven [Raven, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-24T22:00:00+00:00

VII

At five o’clock in the afternoon, I am standing in front of the entrance of Eloise Carter’s house. My hand is closed in a fist, placed at the height of my shoulder, ready to call, but I’ve been like this for a minute and I dare not to move.

I don’t even know why I’m here. Since childhood, I have thought that this lady is half crazy. Why should I change my mind now? Am I really going to believe that the spirits warned her of my arrival?

Better thought, believing that does not drive me away from the madness in which I have been immersed for a few days. I have returned to Swanton pushed by the book that a schizophrenic catatonic wrote while in a trance, possessed by the spirit of my dead friend. I escaped from a hotel room that I had just paid a fortune for because I thought the faucet was trying to tell me something. I left Jim’s house because I got the impression that his dead brother’s ghost was standing in front of me, waiting for me to stop being a coward and take my head from under the blankets. I’ve been comforting a frightened girl because a spirit forces her to write distress messages on the shopping list... How much longer am I going to fight to endow this situation with an appearance of sanity? What I’m trying to do is not a regular investigation, it is not about searching for clues or interrogating suspects... There’s something much bigger and darker than I can’t handle alone. Maybe the woman who’s waiting for me in this house can help me. Without thinking about it, I give a couple of knocks at the door, feeling that I have not really been the one who has made the decision to do so. I don’t know if it’s a hidden force or fate. What I know is that I feel like a puppet driven by an unknown being, while I try to deceive myself by telling myself that I control the situation.

The door opens immediately as if the woman had been waiting for me on the other side. She doesn’t smile nor greets me. She just moves away a little to let me step inside freely and to indicate with a hand gesture that I should go towards the room.

The decoration of the place does not work to change my opinion about Eloise nor to reassure me. The shutters of the whole house are squinted, allowing very little light to seep in. All of the furniture is crammed with strange objects: pyramids and crystal balls, amulets, colorful candles, statues of unknown gods... The atmosphere is heavily loaded. It smells like a mixture of old books, incense, and tobacco smoke. For a few seconds, I feel dizzy. Eloise leads me to a table with a heater underneath covered by a heavy dark blue tablecloth with yellow-stamped stars, the kind that fortune tellers use at fairs. She points a chair at me and sits in front.

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