Throughout Horsingdon, a number of doorways exist, usually inset against featureless but dilapdated walls which abut or stand in close proximity to a site associated with James Boreham - or with some other aspect of the region’s witchlore. None of the doors appear to constitute actual points of ingress, with some of the walls into which they are set only a foot or two thick. Seemingly leading to nowhere, each and everyone of the doors is locked - although on closer inspection, one can sometimes discern curious signs and symbols scratched into the peeling paint of their surfaces.
Whilst no one is quite sure of their purpose, or claims any knowledge as to where the keys to unlocking them may be found, some have suggested that the doorways are mere follies: the product of James Boreham’s madness; yet there also exists a more sinister folklore concerning the doorways - a folklore which infers a more diabolic origin and purpose: that they mark the site of ancient, neolithic sites which once formed portals to other realms: gateways subsequently employed by both the Horsingdon Coven and the Guardians of the Black Bowers for travelling without moving between the sacred sites of the region - as well as for communing with Those Who Wait and other monstrous powers...
Other suburban legendry recounts instances of those who have sought to penetrate the secrets of the doorways: often young men on a dare who, on breaking the locks and crossing the threshold of those doors, have never been seen again. It is also said that, on certain auspicious nights, the terrified shrieks of those lonesome souls forever trapped behind the doorways can be heard, echoing throughout eternity.
Whilst no one is quite sure of their purpose, or claims any knowledge as to where the keys to unlocking them may be found, some have suggested that the doorways are mere follies: the product of James Boreham’s madness; yet there also exists a more sinister folklore concerning the doorways - a folklore which infers a more diabolic origin and purpose: that they mark the site of ancient, neolithic sites which once formed portals to other realms: gateways subsequently employed by both the Horsingdon Coven and the Guardians of the Black Bowers for travelling without moving between the sacred sites of the region - as well as for communing with Those Who Wait and other monstrous powers...
Other suburban legendry recounts instances of those who have sought to penetrate the secrets of the doorways: often young men on a dare who, on breaking the locks and crossing the threshold of those doors, have never been seen again. It is also said that, on certain auspicious nights, the terrified shrieks of those lonesome souls forever trapped behind the doorways can be heard, echoing throughout eternity.
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