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5 min readScary Stories: Skulls In The Stars
A gaunt Puritan named Solomon Cain stands at a crossroads outside a village, warned by a breathless youth not to take the Moor Road. The villagers have sent the boy to intercept him because the moor is accursed—no one who walks it by night survives. "Some foul whore haunts the way," the boy says, and claims men for his victims. The corpses are found bruised and torn. No living person has seen the thing and lived. Cain, whose "darkly pallid face and deep brooding eyes" mark him as a man who has seen the Spanish Inquisition and the work of witch-finders, refuses to turn back. "The lords of darkness have laid a curse upon the country," he says. "A strong man is needed to combat Satan and his might. Therefore I go."
The Hunt on the Moor
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Episode Opening** - A short disclaimer and ad segment for Window Nation and Astasio Heating & Cooling plays before the story begins.
- 2 (01:00) **The Two Roads to Torker Town** - Solomon Cain is warned by a breathless youth to avoid the Moor Road and take the safer Swamp Road.
- 3 (03:57) **Cain's Resolve and the Lure of Adventure** - Cain feels a quickening of his blood, though he interprets his motivation as a religious duty to combat Satan.
- 4 (04:52) **The Hunt on the Moor** - Cain hears a strange, terrifying laughter and the screams of a victim being hunted in the dark.
- 5 (08:57) **The First Victim** - A mutilated, dying man staggers to Cain's feet, and Cain realizes he is being watched by the unseen horror.
- 6 (10:08) **The Manifestation of the Fiend** - The horror takes shape as a misty, vaguely human form with insane, terrifying eyes.
- 7 (11:13) **The First Attack** - Cain's pistols and sword pass through the ghostly fiend with no effect, and he is forced into a desperate physical struggle.
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Show Notes
If you ever see skulls, Run. If you ever see Skulls in the stars, RUN FASTER
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