Haunted Isles -in the company of Grace Clairmont

  As a result of my Haunted EBay Doll post here  , I was invited into the home of Vanessa, a haunted doll collector. I felt slightly unnerved sitting in Vanessa's living room surrounded by porcelain dolls whilst she made us a pot of tea. There seemed to be a hundred eyes watching me, glass eyes, the room was filled with Vanessa's collection of porcelain dolls. I could hear Vanessa in the kitchen, she was talking to the resident kitchen cat, it wasn't a live cat. It was a spirit cat whose conduit vessel, a large china cat figurine, sat on the work surface. Casting my eyes around the living room I noted several cat ornaments amongst the dolls. Were they ornaments or were they also conduit vessels? And what about the soft toy cat draped across the back of an armchair?   When Vanessa returned to the living room I asked her if her cat collection were also conduit vessels,  "Oh yes," she replied, "I love cats, I'd be a mad cat lady if I wasn't allergic to t...