Invisible Traces · A Horror Story No. 3
The Forgotten
Alex Moonn
They built a place to heal the living on top of the bodies of the dead.
Japan, 1850. A young nurse takes up her post at Yurei Hospital, built in 1847 over the ruins of an ancient Buddhist temple, on top of the bones of slaughtered monks who never received the proper rites. Old Dr. Tanaka keeps a faded red charm pressed to his chest. On her first night, a child's laughter moves through the hallways.
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But on the floor, just past the threshold, there was a footprint. Small. Barefoot. Facing inward.
And beside it, another. And another. And one more after that — a whole trail of footprints climbing the dark hallway and vanishing around the bend, as if someone was showing me the way.
On my first night, a child's laughter moved through the hallways.
English edition, available on Amazon.
