title: Ghosts: The Complete Guide to the Supernatural
author:  Zachary Graves 
description: Zachary Graves is a writer who specializes in the occult. He grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA where he developed an early interest in voodoo, and later, as a student of cultural history, made several research trips to Haiti to further his interest. He has travelled widely, particularly in Africa and the Far East, where he lived for some time. He currently resides in New Orleans, close to the St Louis Cemetery, where Marie Lavaux, the voodoo queen of New Orleans, is buried.
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  TO OLD FRIENDS LIKE DARREN, JOEL, LARRY, AND NICK.
  AND TO NEW FRIENDS LIKE JASON AND ADAM.
  
  CHAPTER
   1 
  SHRINE
  Are there really ghosts here?” Cole asked.
  “They’re called echoes,” Hunter replied. “But, yeah. Pretty much.”
  Cole, Hunter, Dalton, and Jace strolled along a ﬂat, stone-lined path in the
  garden surrounding the Seven-Cornered Shrine. The bright afternoon sun, the
  sculpted hedges, the diverse ﬂowers, the trellised vines, the shade trees, the
  trickling streams, the splashing fountains—nothing in view suggested the
  presence of restless spirits.
  They had arrived in Necronum from Zeropolis by monorail a little before