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Hi Angi, sorry you're not enjoying it. Maybe if I explain a few bits it'll make sense?

First, it's set during the making of The Black Parade, and in the place where they actually recorded it. It's part fact, part fiction.

The facts: The Paramour Mansion is where they recorded The Black Parade and they really were creeped out by some very strange happenings - Bob's bathtub, slamming doors, night terrors (you hear little snippets of Gerard discussing this in an interview at the start of Sleep) etc. Mikey ended up having to leave the house and only return for recording, but he couldn't stay there.
Also, there was a woman named Daisy Canfield who lived there in the 20s and early 30s who died in a car crash in 1933 and she's believed to be the cause of some of the hauntings. Mikey's trauma and reaction to what he felt in his room and around the house etc has been documented by the band a reasonable amount - enough to piece a few bits together. Papa Roach also recorded there and they experience similar things.

The fiction: All the stuff about the man and Lucy, the friend and I've taken artistic license with some of the events - it is supposed to be fiction after all :)

The timing is all set during the recording, but in this chapter Mikey is just reading from the old diary he's found from 1933. It's still current time within the story.

As for why they didn't just leave the house - well, you'd have to ask them. They were very creeped out and they did stay (except Mikey). I've speculated that the label had put so much money and effort into the project that they couldn't pull out and go somewhere else, but it's just a guess.

Part fact/part fiction stories are often a little tricky because it can be uncertain where fact stops and fiction starts, but that's supposed to be the fun of it. Also, it's quite heavily descriptive as I've tried to follow Mikey's thoughts and observations rather than just 'then this happened, then that, then this...etc'. So it's more reflective and, hopefully, feels like it might be personal.

You can pretend it's all fact or all fiction if that helps. If you still don't like it, well, I can only say I'm sorry and hope you'll find something else you prefer - after all, there are no shortage of stories here.

Sas x