This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in the novel's first chapter, "St.oper's . . ky . chapter 22 . ghost parade" . It's a reference to the ghost parade in the previous chapter, which was set in the same house. This time, however, the epigraph refers to a different kind of ghost parade, one that's taking place in a different part of the world. The epigraph is from a poem called "The Ghost Parade," which describes a procession of ghost-like creatures. The poem's title refers to the fact that the procession is going to burn a bunch of money on the altar of the house where they're going to sacrifice the money. This is the kind of procession you'd expect to see in a Gothic novel, but instead of burning the money, the procession's going to transform the house into a graveyard for the dead. The transformation is a bit of a pain, because it's so ugly that it doesn't look