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Haunting the Dead is a fiction anthology for Orpheus.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf Catalog:
Deals with the Dead
Death is no longer absolute - the men and women of Orpheus can see past the veil into the underworld. Their numbers include mediums, spirit-talkers and even actual ghosts. For a price, they'll cross the veil for you, to resolve lost causes or quiet restless spirits. But be careful, for the dead aren't to be trifled with, and in the end your payment may come in blood.
Four Times the Fear
Haunting the Dead presents four all-new novellas from some of the most exciting voices in modern horror fiction, set in the world of Orpheus, White Wolf's game of paranoia and the paranormal. Agents of the conspiracy known as Orpheus can see the dead, but can they trust these spectres and banshees? And what of the voice that squawks through dead channels, warning of a disaster on the horizon?

Contents[]

  • The Grass is always Greener by Stefan Petrucha
    • 1. The Rite Thing
    • 2. And The Bandwidth Played On
    • 3. I Hear You Knocking, But You Can't Come In
    • 4. If This Is The Reveal, Does That Mean There Was A Veal?
  • Eurydice by Seth Lindberg
  • Dia de los Muertos by Allen Rausch
  • Corridors by Rick Chillot
  • Contributors

Background Information[]

The front page of the book contains quotes for reviews from Green Man Review, Baryon Magazine and Creature Feature on Demon: Lucifer's Shadow.

Memorable Quotes[]

Characters[]

  • The Grass is always Greener
    • Martin Kleck - Wraith, Former Orpheus Agent, Destroyed by Feral Ghosts
    • Shutty Couter - Female Wraith, Orpheus Agent
    • "Tragic Alex" - Wraith, Destroyed
    • Jobe - Wraith, Transcended
    • Bilka - Female Wraith, Transcended
    • Kate Dennison
    • Toya - Aunt Yotie's Fox Terrier
    • Aunt Yotie - Mortal, Shutty's Aunt
    • Adrian Kleck - Mortal, Martin's Father
  • Eurydice
    • Anders, "Andy" - Banshee, Sleeper, Ex-Orpheus Agent, Spectre Servant of the King of Eyes
    • Lila - Banshee, Skimmer, Female Ex-Orpheus Agent, Spectre Servant of the King of Eyes
    • Kate Dennison
    • Frick - Orpheus Agent, Engineering Section Leader
    • Jane O'Farrell - Female Orpheus Agent, Project Leader
    • Tom Hayes
    • Watson - Orpheus Agent, Died
    • Ben Cotton
    • Bradford Negley - Orpheus Group, Senior Vice President of Investigative Consulting
    • Jack Tilton - Orpheus Group, CEO
    • Craig - Orpheus Agent
    • Dr. Farquand - Orpheus Group, Female Engineering Boss
    • King of Eyes, "Ozymandias" - Neverborn /Malfean
    • Murth, "Dr. Chandrawati" - Orpheus Group, Life Sciences, Therapist
    • Raddicks - Orpheus Group, Fired/Quit
    • Merick Porter - Orpheus Group, Head of IT, Vice President of Info. Tech.
    • Del Greco - Orpheus Group, Board Member
  • Dia de los Muertos
    • Eileen Savitch - Orpheus Group, Female Banshee Skimmer, Wraith
    • Teo Garcia - Orpheus Agent, Skinrider, Destroyed
    • Jose Cardinale - Orpheus Group, Director, Died
    • Torriente - Orpheus Group, Female receptionist, Died
    • Laura Arguelles - Client, Died
    • Zoia Arguelles - Client, Laura's daughter, Died
    • Francisco Arguelles - Wraith, thinks he is Huitilopochtl, Servant of Coatlicue, Destroyed
    • Nicholas - Eileen's baby, Died
    • Thomas - Eileen's Husband, Died
    • Marco Calavera - Wraith, Tezcatlipoca the Smoking Mirror
    • Mother of Nightmares, Coatlicue
    • Ramon - Tierra Arguelles Worker, Died
    • Betty - Tierra Arguelles Worker, Died
    • Perla Montez - Tianquiztli Member on Pigment, Died
    • Rebecca O'Hare - Orpheus Group, Female Project Leader
  • Corridors
    • Ed Lighthouse - Orpheus Agent, Banshee
    • Maria - Mortal, Hotel Cleaner
    • Joseph Rossi - Mortal, Cop
    • Barker - Mortal, Cop
    • Jack Levine - Mortal, Businessman
    • Agnes - Mortal
    • Terrence Green
    • Christina "Tina" - Female Wraith
    • Audrey - Mortal
    • Linda - Mortal
    • Smilers - Spectres
    • Mr. Goodman - Wraith
    • Crooked-Foot - Medicine Man, Wraith, Gone
    • Jane Brown - Female Wraith, Gone
    • Amy - ?
    • Henry - ?
    • Brad - ?
    • Cynthia - ?
    • Victoria Blake - Female Spectre, Destroyed, Former Owner of the Blue Palace Hotel
    • Mike - Died
    • Dave - Died
    • Jim - Died
    • Karen - Female Wraith, Nurse
    • Rita - ?
    • Mr. Cohen - ?
    • Judy - Ed's Cousin
    • Francis "Franny" Blake - Wraith, Victoria Blake's Child, Franny the Doll

Terminology[]

Agent, Angelitos (Child Ghosts; Spectre), Banshee, Benito Jiarez (Convention Center), Blips, Blue Palace Hotel (Location/Haunt), Calavera, California, Chupacabra (Spectre), Code A1A, Cults, Day of the Dead, Dematerialize, Dematerialized, Doppelganger, EVP, Fetters, Flat-Line Survivor, Ghost, Great Dark Mother of Mothers, Guadalajara, Haunt, ILP, Jim's Bakery (Location), Leviathan, Llarona, Meat, Mexico, Never-Dead, NextWorld, Niño Perdido (Lost Boy; Spectre), OBE, Oceano de Color, Orpheus Group, O'Tolley's, Palomas Negras, Pennsylvania, Phantasmal, Phantom, Pigment, Pittsburgh, PLE, Poltergeist, Project, Project Bluebook, Projecting, Quetzalcoatl, Radio Free Death, Ritual de los Muertos, Sacrament, San Diego, Santo Coyote (Restaurant), Skeleton, Skimmer, Skinrider, Skinsuit, Sleeper, Spectre, Spirit, Spooks, Stains, Terrell & Squib, Tezcatlipoca, Tianquiztli (Group), Tierra Arguelles (Construction Company), United States,

References[]

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