Where are you, Sister?

A millionaire shipping magnate invites some old university buddies to a reunion get-together at his manor in Liverpool, England.

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While they’re halfway through the reunion dinner, a couple of local police officers arrive and inform their host that they have apprehended a suspect in the matter of his sister’s disappearance. When asked what happened, the friend informs his old buddies, that his sister mysteriously disappeared a few days ago, and that they suspect foul play.

Possibilities

1 The sister has been snatched by ghouls who dragged her to their underground warrens and killed her. The ghouls have been battling a local coven of witches and sorcerers, led by their host, the millionaire shipping magnate.

The coven knows who took the sister, and what has happened to her, but they maintain a veil of normality, while they gather strength to deal a final blow to the ghouls.

The apprehended man is just an innocent crook.

2 The sister’s husband, a renowned solicitor, killed the sister in a jealous rage because he discovered the sister was fooling around with another man. When he realized what he had done, he chopped the sister up and incinerated her remains in his furnace.

The apprehended man is the sister’s lover.

3 The sister was seduced by a visitor from Scotland, whom she met at a society ball. He convinced her to go with him back to his home in northern Scotland. She gladly followed him.

Unfortunately, the man was a member of an old cult that worships an avatar of foul Shub-Niggurath. When the sister arrived, the cult claimed her and performed a fertility ritual. Now, as her brother searches, the sister is trapped in northern Scotland with a foul entity growing inside her. Her sanity is unlikely to hold out for long.

The apprehended man had been courting for the sister’s love - but without any luck. The police now suspect that he’s behind her disappearance.

© Tim Deer