Thursday, January 24, 2019

Malign Frequencies: Further Transmissions from Horsingdon, No. 24: Ghoul Feast


Crouched, loping figures were sighted in this corner of St Osmund’s cemetary last night: ancient graves long bereft of any rotting morsel tender enough for those of a ghoulish disposition. However, the local folklore surrounding these corpse-eaters often tells of how such creatures were often to be found in the employ of sorcerers, who used them to sniff-out scraps of magical lore from hidden crypts, or in the retrieval - for necromatic purposes - of the ‘essential saltes’ of the long-dead inhabitants of Horsingdon’s burying grounds; notably, much of the ghoul-lore of the region links these necrophagic graveyard dwellers with the strange sorceries of the Boreham bloodline...

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