The generally accepted definition of a crisis apparition is where the spectre of a recently deceased person manifests to a friend or close relative, usually around the very time of death and often when the percipient is unaware of that person’s passing.
In Horsingdon, the term takes on another, more sinister meaning: there are periods in the borough’s occulted history when some seemingly terminal - yet often hidden - moment of metaphysical catastrophe threatens; such times invariably coincide with increased reports of encounters with the restless dead - typically in and around local cemeteries and churchyards - who augur either in word or by virtue of their very presence the proximity of some dreadful occurrence which imperils the life, sanity and reason of the local populace.
In this manner the dead of Horsingdon, long lost to memory yet irrevocably tied in some strange and inexplicable way to its cursed soil, remain the most stalwart defenders of the parish - and of those guilty of such forgetting.
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