An enjoyable short story. I would have liked maybe just a little more spookiness out of it, but it's a worthwhile short read regardless. ( )

Seance Grifters in 1899
Review of the Amazon Original Kindle eBook (November 15, 2022) released simultaneously with the Audible Original audiobook (November 15, 2022)

This may have been a fairly conventional ghost story but the atmosphere and historical setting added quite a bit to its ambience. It was also a marked improvement over the Unsatisfactory Ending Alerts™ encountered earlier in the Into Shadows collection.

Two grifters of exotic origin (Maryse Ly being Vietnamese & Vasyl Janiv by his name sounding East European) come to an isolated girls finishing school in Illinois, USA in 1899 to perform a seance. Among the other attendees, the school mistress and her daughter are seeking to know what happened to their other daughter and sibling who had supposedly run away. The seance and the events which follow during the night bring about unexpected answers.

What the Dead Know is the fourth of seven Amazon Original Kindle eBooks/Audible Audio audiobooks released on November 15, 2022 as part of the Into Shadow Collection of short stories where "Some truths are carefully concealed; others merely forgotten. In this spellbinding collection, seven acclaimed fantasy authors create characters who venture into the depths where others fear to tread. But when forbidden knowledge is the ultimate power, how far can they go before the darkness consumes them?"

Trivia and Link
You can watch for current and past Amazon Original Kindle short stories which are usually paired with their Audible Original narrations at an Amazon page here (link goes to Amazon US, adjust for your own country or region). ( )