Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast
Samuel clamped to her shoulder, her seven aborted beloved wandering along her back to stab and dig and burrow beneath the flesh, pulling her skin back to suckle the naked bone of her spine, she watched Madame as she, Yin Ying and the dark moved through the door, slipping free from this seething storm of endless torment.
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They say the house still stands somewhere in the middle of modern Shanghai. They say that Madame Xuo, now very old, sits, silent and never seen, still sipping a brew as old as China itself, shadowed by a servant who stands too tall, walks too heavy, and offers slow dangerous smiles from a lopsided face.
And, it’s said, trapped behind the walls of an infamous room of red p
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