Status Updates From Knogler

The shape you spoke of. The outsider. The troubles me. I said nothing. It troubled me, too. Do you think there’s a chance it might come back? It always does, I said. At the risk of sounding pompous, the outsider eventually comes back for all of us, doesn’t it? Because we are all a bag of bones. And the outsider… Frank, the outsider wants what’s in the bag.

Mike is confronted and attacked by Max Devore and his assistant, who pelts rocks at him. He continues researching the haunting at his home, visiting the library where Maddie works. Maddie is subsequently fired from her job, and Mike is visited by an assistant of Devore, who he refuses to admit to his home. He continues to communicate with the spirit through fridge magnets.

The late light was full on his face and made his face look like a half rotted jack-o’-lantern which had been soaked with gas and set on fire

God’s butterfly caught in a cocoon of flesh that will soon stink like mine…