Malign Frequencies: Further Transmissions from Horsingdon, No.37: Ancient Tracks

There are many old, straight tracks worn into the Horsingdon countryside, delineating the ancient, ritual geometries which were once used to draw power from out the region’s hidden, praeternatural topography.

Whilst many of the Old Ways remain forgotten outside of mysterious cabals such as the Guardians of the Black Bowers, these ancient tracks sometimes retain spectral memories of the wonders and terrors which they once conjoured from out of the landscape: a tall, spindly and inhuman figure might be spied briefly at the point where an old path approaches its vanishing point; a strange mauve mist might appear suddenly along another of these archaic avenues, only to dissipate just as swiftly - after which a disoriented walking party discover that one of their number has mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again; along the forested borders of another such track, a great black dog with eyes like glowing coals is seen pacing hungrily...

Indeed, one should take care not to step too lightly upon such paths, for fear they might lead the unwary traveller on an unwarranted journey to a wholly unexpected destination.