The Book of Ghostly Hours

"*This book is our most treasured possession.*"
―Sofia[src]
***The Book of Ghostly Hours*** is a book documenting ghostly hours found around the Wundrous Society campus that was compiled by Hemingway Q. Onstald. Most of the known entries of ghostly hours involve Wundersmiths and were used to teach and learn the Wundrous Arts.

*See also: Ghostly Hour*

## History

The book was handwritten by Hemingway Onstald and used exclusively for the Sub-Nine Academic Group in the Study Room in the School of Wundrous Arts. Onstald omitted Ezra Squall from all lists of participants to protect the book from anti-squall zealotry.

Morrigan Crow uses it as a tool to further her studies in the Wundrous Arts.

## Description

The ledger is described as enormous, with a cover bound with "faded blue cloth" and corners "stitched up neatly in blue thread where the fabric covering had frayed." It is "incredibly old" with pages that are "swollen and warped from use." The title on the cover *The Book of Ghostly Hours* is embossed in black.

Each page is divided up into rows and columns, each filled in with "tiny, meticulous handwriting."

## Ghostly Hours

### Incomplete Entries

These ghostly hours are visited by Morrigan Crow who found then in *The Book of Ghostly Hours*. Only some of the details are known.

The following is a ghostly hour that Conall O'Leary reads out aloud. Only some of the details were read by as Conall.

Sub-Nine of Proudfoot House, Tarazed
[Possibly Age of East Winds,]
First Wednesday, Spring of Two. 09:00-[unknown] Ⓐ

## Behind the Scenes

* The author, Hemingway Q. Onstald, became fanatically opposed to all Wundersmiths in later life, but he left the *Book of Ghostly Hours* where it could be still be used by the pro-Wundersmith Sub-Nine Academic Group.
* Ezra Squall is not listed in any of the entries found in Hollowpox (novel) even though we know he did participate in ghostly hours.
* Odbuoy Jemmity is not listed in any of the entries found in Hollowpox (novel) even though we know he did participate in ghostly hours.

## Appearances

* *Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow* (First appearance)

## Notes and References

1. ↑ *Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow*, Chapter 17 (*Ezra, the Boy*)
2. ↑ *Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow* Chapter 17 (*Ezra, the Boy*) "Professor Onstald deliberately omitted Squall from the book to protect it from scrutiny."
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow*, Chapter 9 (*The Book of Ghostly Hours*)
4. ↑ The Book of Ghostly Hours records this ghostly hour as happening on a Monday. But, Morrigan visits this ghostly hour on a Friday (Straight after visiting this ghostly hour, Morrigan re-ignites the fireblossums and then reads about it the next day in the Saturday paper).
5. ↑ Year & Season is narrowed down using the following clues:

	* Age of Endings, Two - this can be inferred from the participant's age (Ezra is seven)
	* Summer - Morrigan visits this ghostly hour during Summer
6. ↑ Year & Day is narrowed down using the following clues:

	* Age of Endings, Six - this can be inferred from the participant's age (Ezra is eleven)
	* Monday - Morrigan visits it on the first day of the week
	* Fourth Week of Autumn - Morrigan visits it the week after the Maurice Bledworth ghostly hour.
7. ↑ Date is narrowed down by:

	* Morrigan visits this ghostly hour the day before the Ruination ghostly hour on the Ninth Thursday
8. ↑ The Age is not read out by Conall, but the Age of East Winds is a good guess - given the following clues:

	* New Halls, named after Wundersmiths are created when they turn 100 years old, or when they die, so this hour occurred after Rastaban Tarazed was 100 years old. Rastaban is younger than Griselda Polaris which means this ghostly hour occurred at a maximum of 150 years before Courage Square but probably much more recently than that.
	* It is likely that Owain, Elodie, and Ezra were the actual students rather than some other named or unnamed Wundersmiths. If they were the actual students, they would not have been ready for intermediate Shadowmaking lessons in the Age of Endings, Spring of Two which leaves the Age of East Winds as the best guess