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A Temple of Forgotten Spirits

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A young guy named Jack Hong hitchhikes throughout America following the keilin, a mystical unicorn out of Chinese mythology. The keilin leads him to ten adventures with ghosts and other supernatural figures. These experiences reveal to him not only parts of American history he never knew, but also his own identity and the role he will choose for his life.~~~~~ Description ~~~~~The moonlight was still strong, and Lo Man Gong still sat up on the overhead window, where few people and no old men could ever get.“Feel better, c******n?” he asked mildly.The night before, my resistance had been low, and his presence had somehow seemed tolerable, if not rational. Now I was more clear-headed ... yet he was still here. I didn’t like him as much.I let my eyes drop closed again. Once I was cured of malaria, I’d be free of him. I had eaten twice today; now, if I slept well, I’d be in sound shape pretty soon.“You know the keilin, c******n Jack?”That was the Chinese unicorn, a mystical animal whose rare appearances were highly auspicious. In the Cantonese I normally heard, it was pronounced “keilun.” It wasn’t like European ones, though. This unicorn had the body of a deer, the hooves of a horse, the tail of an ox, and a fleshy horn. I knew that much.“The unicorn?” I opened my eyes and looked at him. As before, the moonlight glowed through his shape.“Ah, you know the keilin. He smiled and nodded thoughtfully. “The keilin means good things happen. It’s very powerful.”I watched him silently.After a while, he looked into my eyes again. “Nobody remember me, Jack. Some people remember, some of my frien’. A few of them. Most, nobody remember at all. No children, no relative. You, Jack. You like me. Unless you change.”Yes, I knew that. I had already come to understand that. And I knew that he had come for me, here in the middle of the country, away from his home as longtime Californ’. But I didn’t know why.

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A TEMPLE OF FORGOTTEN SPIRITS
A TEMPLE OF FORGOTTEN SPIRITS The Complete Adventures of Jack Hong by William F. Wu Portions of this collection were previously published as follows: Copyright 1985 William F. Wu (Abridged) “Wild Garlic,” Faery!, ed. Terri Windling. N.Y.: Ace Books, 1985. Copyright 1988 Crispin Burnham. (Complete) “Wild Garlic,” Eldritch Tales, ed. Crispin Burnham, Vol. 5, No. 1, Whole Number 15 (January 1988) Reprinted: Pulphouse: the Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rush, Issue Nine. Fall 1990. Copyright 1988 William F. Wu. “On a Phantom Tide,” Pulphouse: the Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Issue One, Fall 1988. Reprinted: The Best of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1991. Copyright 1988 William F. Wu. “The Shade of Lo Man Gong,” Pulphouse: the Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Issue Two, Winter 1988. Reprinted: Short Story Paperbacks, Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing. No. 35, August 1991; Unicorns II!, ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. N.Y: Ace Books, 1992. Copyright 1989 William F. Wu. “Pagan Midnight,” Pulphouse: the Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Issue Three, Spring 1989. Copyright 1989 William F. Wu. “Desert Night Ride,” Pulphouse: the Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Issue Five, Fall 1989. Copyright 1990 William F. Wu. “Caravan of Death,” Pulphouse: the Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Issue Six, Winter 1990. Copyright 1990 William F. Wu. “Up on Tong Yun Guy,” Pulphouse: the Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Issue Seven, Spring 1990. Copyright 1991 William F. Wu. “Shaunessy Fong,” Pulphouse: the Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Issue Eleven, Spring 1991. Reprinted: Short Story Paperbacks, Eugene OR: Pulphouse Publishing. No. 60, July 1992; Short Story Hardbacks, Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing. No. 40, July 1992. Copyright 1993 William F. Wu. “Tinsel c***k,” Pulphouse the Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Issue Twelve, Fall 1993. Copyright 1993 William F. Wu. “In the Temple of Forgotten Spirits,” Pulphouse the Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Issue Twelve, Fall 1993.

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