The Book of Dreams and Ghosts Chapter VII

In which a spectral sergeant in the Scottish Highlands seeks the burial of his bones and justice for his untimely death amidst the lingering unrest post-Culloden, and other phantasmal witnesses are summoned in courts and folk traditions to reveal hidden crimes. The narrative weaves through curious trials and haunting apparitions, including spectral dogs and voices from beyond that mingle the eerie with the evidentiary in a manner both solemn and strangely characteristic of the age.