Theodore Gant's Last Night on Earth as a Seeker of Ghosts

Donovan Gant had been studying resurrection rites in Africa for years. He found a key which would open the closet beside the basement furnace, where they were hidden. Donovan told me that tonight was my last night on earth as a seeker of ghosts. The marble ball inside me leaped up, expanded and exploded like the birth of a universe. It sucked me down into a place that had no definition. I stumbled backwards as a hideous ripping pain engulfed me."