This chapter looks at the work of novelist and filmmaker Sandi Tan. Her film Shirkers attempts to recapture Singapore as a disappearing city in the 1990s, and the film itself disappeared for two decades before being reworked and released. Her novel The Black Isle is and is not an exorcism of the missing film. The novel is peopled by daemons and gurus that are male and patriarchal, but it is constructed by its female author using an old woman narrator, Ling/Cassandra, who details history with the wry spin that wise old women often use to set history straight or undercut official pretensions. The tape recordings that Ling/Cassandra makes of her life, and that she gives to the insistent “Professor,” pry open reflections on films, women's lives, the poetics of power, genre forms of storytelling, and the way hauntings undo presumed claims about the fixed nature of reality.