Handbook for the Recently Deceased

The Handbook for the Recently Deceased is a guidebook for spirits new to the afterlife. A copy appeared at the Maitland residence after they passed away.

Contents

• 1 Known contents
  • 1.1 Facts
  • 1.2 Instructions

  Known contents [ ]

  The handbook has been described as reading like "stereo instructions."

  Facts [ ]

  • Live people ignore the strange and unusual.
  • Functional parameters vary from manifestation to manifestation (put more simply outside of the book, all deaths are personal, and the limitations between ghosts are based on how a person lived and died).

  Instructions [ ]

  • In case of an emergency, draw a door and knock three times.
  • There are also instructions for a séance, but a side effect of it leads the summoned ghost(s) to exorcism. All that's needed is a personal object that the dead used in life, and to display them while using a chant that goes "Hands vermillion, start of five. Bright cotillion, raven's dive. Nightshade’s promise, spirits strive. To the living let now the dead come alive."
  • There is an intermediate interface chapter on haunting, which is apparently easy to understand.

  Background Information and Notes [ ]

  • There were several identical handbook props made based on an unidentified psychology textbook.
  • An original handbook prop was sold on Heritage Auctions for $6,875.

  Gallery [ ]

  Note that the prop images come from the Heritage Auctions website.