Summary

“September 18, 1880: Waning, Gibbous Moon” begins with the chapter “The Hand of Christ.” Penelope Piddock went to a peddler’s cart and bought a vial of holy water to use against witches from a Catholic woman.

In “Mirror, Mirror on The Wall,” Adelaide woke up late and hungover from the night before. She was unhappy that Eleanor had hired Beatrice without her consent. Adelaide’s mother, a ghost, lingered inside Tea and Sympathy and wanted to talk to Adelaide, but she had only been able to make contact with Beatrice so far.

In “A Preponderance of Marys,” the ghost of Paran Stevens waited to see his wife, Marietta. He had once owned the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Eight years after his passing, he lived in the hotel with the ghosts of nine maids named Mary who had died in a fire in the...