Kaori And The Haunted House -

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It wasn't a sound so much as a vibration —a low, humming ache that made her teeth tingle. That was when she decided: Halloween was three days away. If she was ever going to prove the legend wrong (or, terrifyingly, right), it had to be now. Her best friend, Yuki, refused to go within three blocks of the mansion. “I don’t need candy that badly,” Yuki said, crossing her arms. kaori and the haunted house

“My name is Kaori Tanaka. I am here to document the… uh… acoustic anomaly.” (She had learned that phrase from a paranormal show. It made her feel brave.) The scariest things in the world are often