Inspiration Behind Necromancy in the Fifth

So occasionally I get inspired by the most random of things. The whole idea around this was based off of a single line of a single episode of Supernatural.

I've watched Supernatural since it started and though I find most of the more recent seasons to be meh... there's been a few here and there that have truly been intriguing. One of the most intriguing is an episode in season seven when the brothers visited a town called Lily Dale. 

For the record, Lily Dale, NY is a real place and supposedly is truly one of the most psychic places in the world. Now, the reality is that the vast majority of people in Lily Dale - both in the show and in real life - are frauds. They use cheap tactics like lights attached to strobe technology, holograms from projection devices, and more. 

But in the show they go to a museum in Lily Dale and at the museum they meet a curator who tells them the story of Kate and Margaret Fox, or at least an adulterated version, because the Fox Sisters were real people - as like the town. In the show, after he tells them about the sisters, the curator then goes onto grab his arm and proceeds to tell a message to Dean from an old friend beyond the grave.

The assumption viewers are left with is that he's a real psychic, but that's wrong. A psychic might be able to read your future, tell you your thoughts, tell you someone else's opinion of you, or even cause some sort dream weave experience - all forms of psychics each have their own titles, but I'm not going there in this post. But they do not conjure or talk to the dead. 

Necromancers talk to the dead. 

So when I recently rewatched that episode, the assumption they left viewers with bugged me. It made me want to write a story about necromancy.

As for the decision to leave it in the family, I guess we could say that the Fox sisters inspired it.

The story itself is one part science, two mysticism, three parts tragedy, four parts romance, five parts supernatural, and all dark.

So... welcome to the dark side.