Edwin Catterall's Shadow | Haunting Season 2024 Episode #4
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What lives in the dark?
For each of us, the sun, waning as it is through days of autumn rain, weakening, becoming paler, more obscure – the sun is a lifeline. Yet, each night, that lifeline vanishes. The hours of darkness grow longer, the cold dominion of night stretching out, growing larger, growing stronger.
And each of us has an opposite. A dark-craving beast of shade. We know they’re there, though don’t care to acknowledge them.
As the veil between this world grows thin enough to disappear, and the night world claims equal status with our own, don’t pretend, just because you choose not see them, that those counterparts are not in the shadows even now, watching you.
Because, it's Three Ravens Haunting Season, and in this episode we're staring right into that darkness, wondering if we're ever really alone at all...
In this installment of the miniseries, Martin's playing with shadows, and Eleanor can only listen and watch in horror...
As with each of this month's episodes, our opening pair of tales are both winning entries to this year's Three Ravens Ghost Story Writing Competition. The first comes from James Davies-Jones, whose story "Alone" speaks to that feeling most of us know, when we move into a new home and think something about it might be off. The second comes from Libby Justice, whose story "The Pipsqueak" follows a young Victorian heir on a day spent with his father, all while the children in the trees encourage him to join them...
Lastly, Martin rounds out Haunting Season 2024 with his chilling tale "Edwin's Catterall's Shadow," a slice of good ol' fashioned Victorian Gothic epistolary fiction, after which your perceptions of darkness might just be changed forever...
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