Have you ever heard strange thumping or other noises in your house, especially at night? If so, you probably have Polters.
Polters are people like us, but more dead. They hate the term “ghosts,” finding it pejorative. They live in Bardonia, which we call The Land of the Dead. They also reject that term because they don’t think of themselves as dead. They’re simply people from a different culture. Well, and a different dimension.
For the Polters who find themselves stranded in the attics of old houses in Portland, Oregon, the situation is desperate. They were told that Portland was the Promised Land, a place full of activity, colors, movement, and change—everything that gray, unchanging Bardonia lacks. But something went wrong and they came across with insufficient bodies. As wavering wraiths, they don’t have enough substance to participate in society. They can’t go back, and homeowners are afraid of them. All they can do is howl and swirl in the attic like silk handkerchiefs in a breeze.
Nikki and Wald, a young couple in Portland, have a Polter infestation in their house. They’re not keen on being haunted, but they do figure out how to communicate with the Polters. What they learn is that their haunted attic is just the beginning. Tens of millions of Polters have signed up to come over, not knowing it results in miserable entrapment.
Nikki and Wald befriend their domesticated Polters and agree to help them. They also must do something to prevent the immanent invasion. But what? Using a mysterious VR device, they travel to Bardonia and try to stop the Polter migration to Portland.
Things don’t go well. The plain fact is that the living should not be in the Land of the Dead, any more than Polters should be in Portland attics. Living and dead people are incompatible. Nikki makes it back to Portland but Wald doesn’t, and she is devastated. Is there any way to communicate with the other side? Can the Attic Polters help her? Is Portland doomed to become a literal ghost town?
Attic Polters is a sequel to last year’s “Polters” (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV3HG5JB ; https://books2read.com/u/mBVzVk).
Attic Polters “dropped” (or was that a thump? I think it was a thump!) on October 1, 2024.
Get it before it gets you at:
ISBN: 979-8-9877761-9-3 Paperback https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCVMPHC2
ISBN: 979-8-9912255-0-2 Kindle https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ7P1GR1
ISBN: 979-8-9912255-1-9 Epub https://books2read.com/u/mlzMZM
The ebook is available as a kindle and in other formats from Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, etc
