"Scryer's Gulch" episode 34 is live

The Ghostly Convocation:

The graveyard was always the last stop on Aloysius's annual tour, to visit his own grave and to see the other dead of the Gulch; even those not buried in the graveyard came down out of the hills and mine shafts to commiserate with old friends--for the dead were all congenial one with the other--and greet the new spirits, passed on since the last Halloween. Not all the Gulch's dead stayed on in spirit form, but plenty had, and the place was hopping.

The graveyard had three sections: one for the Methodics; one for the Enthusiasts; and one for everyone else except the Chinese. The Chinese had their own place, where they'd bury their bodies until they were just bones. Chen Bing-wen, the most respected among the camp's Chinese, would then oversee their removal to San Francisco, where they'd be put on a ship to make the sad return journey from the promised land to burial at home. But even the Chinese spirits would congregate in the main graveyard, mostly talking among themselves but still nodding and friendly to the dead folks, white and black and native, congregating among the tombstones.

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