Thursday, February 21, 2019

Malign Frequencies: Further Transmissions from Horsingdon, No.52: Urban Monoliths


A number of great, blocky redbrick monoliths exist in and around Horsingdon; no one seems to recall who built them, but it is generally agrees that the structures first appeared during the early years of the Cold War. The parcels of land upon which these edifices were built have since been subject to compulsory purchase orders, and the monoliths are now surrounded by high, industrial-grade steel palisades topped with barbed-wire.

As with so much else within the borough, the origin and purpose of the monoliths remains a mystery - although rumours occasionally surface of military trucks parked in their vicinity, of curious lights observed hovering above them at midnight, and of black-robed figures seen encircling these modern megaliths at twilight, all the while chanting the words of an incomprehensible catechism.

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