Such Stuff As Dreams (or Nightmares) Are Made On

SISTER WRAITH

A Ghost Story / Murder Mystery by Elizabeth N. "Betty" Stinson, writing as Nasa C. Chapman

1973:  On the advice of her psychiatrist, young Trisha Vonahan returns to her vacant childhood home to exorcise the ghosts of memory and unnamed dread that have tormented her since her older sister Trina's death in a fall thirteen years ago (1960). Instead of finding closure, she has a vision of her sister's ghost and becomes convinced that she was murdered. Using various pretexts, she invites back everyone who was in the house that night, and they come, bringing three innocent bystanders. She traps them all there to wait for the sister's wraith to return and point out the guilty party. But then her guests start to die...

SISTER WRAITH Rap

There was a little miss who had a big sis
And they lived in a house in the forest.
On a cold night the doll broke her neck in a fall
And had a demise quite horrid.

Now the little girl's grown, in the house on her own,
And her brain's bred a secret agenda:
She'll bring back all who might've caused the fall,
Find her sister's killer, and avenge her.

Her parents come to the house each with a new spouse,
Her mother's best friend the diva,
Her sister's roommate, her beau and his date,
The handyman -- and only he will believe her.

The poor girl will swear a restless wraith is in there,
Her sibling, and oh how she's missed her!
The night's young of course, Death rides his pale horse,
And seven more will join the sister.

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SISTER WRAITH has 10 main characters (those trapped at the house):

Patricia “Trisha” Vonahan, 23

Pamela Vonahan Josephson, 50’s, Trisha’s mother, divorced and remarried to…

Edgar Josephson, 60’s, self-made construction millionaire

Howard Vonahan, 50’s, Trisha’s father, department stores owner, divorced and recently remarried to…

Judy Trooper Vonahan, 30-ish, socialite

Hilary Dayle, 40’s, Tony-award-winning actress, now head of Round Rock Theater, Pamela’s best friend

Bethany Huw, 32, Trina’s college roommate, horror writer

Asa Coldwood, 34, Trina’s former fiancé, lawyer, dating…

Benecia Belmont, 30-ish, NY actress visiting at theater

Cal McBeth, 60’s, the house caretaker, lives over garage

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Katherine “Trina” Vonahan, Trisha’s sister, 19

Young Trisha Vonahan, 10

Ptolemy and Cleopatra Wight, elderly, weird brother and sister who run the occult head shop “Quaint & Curious”

Allie Reynes, 40-ish, street person and possibly an angel

Dr. Cosima, 60’s, Trisha’s psychiatrist

Gail, Asa’s secretary

Sleazy Private Detective

Motel Manager, little old lady

Mysterious Sweeper on stage at Round Rock Theater

Elaine Carruthers, 60’s, seen as a corpse in flashback

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