Request #298 From Hailey

I actually have two requests!

1) Old short story that was written/takes place around early 1900s? A guy is travelling when he meets this old man who lives in a house in the country and gets invited to stay for a few days. The old man really likes guy and tells him all about his wife and how awesome she is and she’ll be coming home from travels in a few weeks, and begs guy to stay until she arrives. They plan a huge coming home party for her with all the neighbors, who get the old man super drunk until he passes out. The neighbors put the old man to bed and guy asks where the wife is, she never showed up. The neighbors say that they do this every month, she’s been dead for years but the old man can’t cope so he just always thinks she’s coming home soon.

2) Read this is the late 80s/early 90s. Book about a girl who gets a demon attached to her when she is a kid. The demon has long tendrils coming out of its head. It leaves her alone and then comes back when she’s an adult and she has to deal with it.