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An iron gate standing open on a path to a dark house in fog.

Case No. 1926-1031

Police file · Opened 1 November 1926

The Hollow House

31 October 1926

The Hollow family hosted a dinner for eight.

The guests arrived. Nobody came out.

11.41 pm · The gate

The police found the gate open.

Across the lawn the front door stands open, lit from inside. Someone pale is in the doorway.

So was the door.

The porch steps. Candles burn past the open door.

11.47 pm · The porch

The candles were still lit.

The threshold. A long hall of candles, and someone standing at the far end.

Constable's notebook · Last page

11.52 pm. The daughter, Eliza, was seen in the hall.

Filed by Const. Ambrose Kell
Notebook found on the hall floor.

Last entry

Deep in the hall. The candles at the edges have gone out.

11.56 pm

The candles are going out. One at a time.

11.58 pm

She is at the end of the hall. She has seen me.

Eliza, inches from the lens. Black eyes, wet hair, mouth open.

Eliza still walks the hall.

Seventeen nights a year, so do you.

Evidence · Recovered 1 November 1926

Four rooms. Then the search stopped.

The search party photographed each room before they left it. Your torch is the only light.Your torch follows you down the page.

A nursery at night. A rocking chair with a shawl, a doll face down on the rug, moonlight through lace.

Seat still warm.

Exhibit A

The Nursery

Photograph · 01.12 am

Eliza's chair rocks on its own. We stopped writing it down.

A long dining table laid for a feast, rotting, under a lit chandelier. Tall carved chairs.

Name card on the ninth plate: E. Hollow.

Exhibit B

The Dining Room

Photograph · 01.30 am

Dinner for eight. Eight chairs. A ninth place setting nobody laid.

Wet stone stairs down into a cellar. Chains on the wall. One bulb at the far end.

The bolt is on our side.

Exhibit C

The Cellar

Photograph · 03.47 am

Where the search stopped. The officers would not say why.

A hall of gilt mirrors and candles. Deep in one reflection, a pale figure stands where nobody stands in the room.

Room: 8. Glass: 9.

Exhibit D

The Mirror Hall

Photograph · 02.15 am

Count the guests in the reflection. Then count them in the room.

Notice of reopening

The house reopens for seventeen nights.

17 October to 2 November 2026 · Singapore

General entry

S$38

7 pm to 1 am. A torch is issued at the gate.

Lights Out

S$58

After 11 pm. No torch is issued.

Conditions of entry

  1. Nights17 October to 2 November
  2. Doors7 pm to 1 am
  3. EntryOne party every 15 minutes
  4. Party sizeUp to six. Nobody walks the hall alone.
  5. AgeNobody under 13 is admitted
  6. Address14 Hollow Lane Sent to ticket holders the day before.

Case No. 1926-1031

Case still open.

11.59 pm. Your name has been added.