Whispers After Midnight The Return Luke Morris noway believed in ghosts — not until the night Clara failed. For weeks after the burial, he could n't bring himself to step back inside the grange. The police had declared her death an accident — a fall from the old ground near the forestland but Luke could n't accept that. He'd seen the dispatches. He'd seen the time prints. She'd texted him after she failed. Every night since, her voice visited his sleep. occasionally faint, occasionally close — bruiting his name. Tonight, at 1157 p.m., he stood before the house again. The windows were boarded, the yard grown. The air was damp and heavy, smelling noiselessly of spoilage. His flashlight ray wavered across the weathered frontal door. The boards nailed across it were loose. He dithered only