AN INCIDENT IN THE NURSERY AT THE WITCHING HOUR

from THE HAUNTING

October 31st, 2022

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THE HAUNTING

AN INCIDENT IN THE NURSERY AT THE WITCHING HOUR

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AN INCIDENT IN THE NURSERY AT THE WITCHING HOUR

BAD MANOR

MOTHER, FATHER, COME MEET OUR FRIENDS. THEY’VE COME TO FROLIC WITH US EVERY NIGHT. IT BREAKS UP THE QUIET HERE. OH MOTHER, OH FATHER, THEY’RE SINGING SO LOUD WE CAN BARELY SLEEP. WE TOLD THEM TO BE QUIET, BECAUSE WE KNOW THEY’RE DISTURBING YOUR SLUMBER TOO. OH FATHER, YOU MUST BE SO TIRED FROM WORKING ENDLESSLY. OUR FRIENDS SAY THEY’D BE HONORED TO HELP YOU RELAX. HERE IS SOME TEA THEY’VE MADE. THEY SAY IT CURES ALL ILLS. OH MOTHER, TAKE A RESPITE FROM LAUNDRY AND CHORES. COME SING SONGS WITH US. LET US TEACH YOU ONE OUR FRIENDS TAUGHT US. IT GOES LIKE THIS: “NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP, THE LORD IS ABSENT HERE, HE SPEAKS NOT EVEN A PEEP. WHEN ON THIS NIGHT, YOU REST YOUR HEAD, ALLOW NOT THE MANOR TO FILL YOU WITH DREAD. WE ALL BELONG HERE, THIS IS OUR HOME, ALONG WITH EACH GUEST RECORDED IN THE TOME. PERHAPS THE SUN, WE WILL WATCH RISE, AS THE FIRE SPLITS THE SKIES. FREE YOUR SOUL FROM ITS CHAINS, YOUR SIN WILL WASH AWAY IN THE RAINS.” NOW MOTHER, FATHER, LISTEN CLOSE, WE MUST NOT DELAY AND BE RUDE TO OUR HOSTS. TAKE OUR HANDS, COME THROUGH THIS DOOR, AND IN THIS LIGHT, WE SHALL ALL BE REBORN.

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THE HOUSE, THE SUBJECT OF MY STUDIES, WENT OUT IN A BLAZE TODAY. I THINK I COULD HEAR IT SCREAMING. AFTER DISCOVERING THE GUESTBOOK AND ITS RECORDED APPENDICES IN A HIDDEN CHAMBER, I VOWED TO MAKE THE STORY PUBLIC, BUT THIS PLACE, THIS HAVEN OF EVIL AND SADNESS, COULD NO LONGER STAND. THE MANOR MOCKED ME, WALLS BREATHING AS IF THIS PLACE OF WOOD AND BRICK WERE LAUGHING, AS I ENTERED WITH A JUG OF GASOLINE.

I RECALL THE MANY SEANCES I CONDUCTED HERE. MY ASSOCIATE, PROFESSOR RADA S. LAZARESCU, RECORDED MY SESSIONS AS A MEDIUM. WE RECALLED HAUNTINGS IN THE MANOR THROUGHOUT HISTORY, DATING BACK TO ITS INITIAL POSSESSION BY THE SPIRIT. IT WAS A VIOLENT PERIOD OF TIME. PROFESSOR LAZARESCU IS NO LONGER WITH US. I FOUND HIM IN THE STATUE GARDEN, SWAYING IN ITS MIDST. IT WAS THEN THAT I KNEW THE HOUSE MUST DIE.

FILLING EVERY ROOM, I HALLUCINATED PREVIOUS HAUNTINGS, OTHERS WHOSE SOULS WERE PERMANENTLY TRAPPED HERE. I DARED NOT ENTER ONE, FOR ITS MANY JUDGING GAZES WOULD DRAW ME MAD IF I EVEN ATTEMPTED EYE CONTACT WITH ONE OF ITS PAINTED RESIDENTS. I SET THE SPARK. I SET THE HOUSE ABLAZE. IT DID NOT EXPECT SUCH A WORTHY FOE, BUT I WAS PREPARED. MY YEARS OF RESEARCH LED ME TO THIS MOMENT, AND IT FELL UPON ME TO END THIS LIVING DAMNATION. I TOOK IT UPON MYSELF TO CAREFULLY RECREATE THE GUESTBOOK AND RECORDINGS I FOUND WITHIN THE HOUSE SO THAT ITS STORY MAY LIVE ON, AS THE SPIRIT WHICH INHABITED IT, THE ARCHITECT, IS HUNGRY.

MY STORY IS WOEFULLY SHORT. HE WILL FIND ME. LET THIS COLLECTION BE A WARNING.

-STEPHEN R.C. SICREEVE, 16 OCTOBER 2021

Credits

THE HAUNTING IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT BETWEEN SEANCES CONDUCTED BY:
STEPHEN R.C. SICREEVE - PROFESSIONAL SPIRIT MEDIUM
MONSIEUR MALEDICTION - VESSEL PHANTASMIQUE
DOCUMENTED BY:
THE LATE PROFESSOR RADA S. LAZARESCU

FURTHER ORCHESTRATED BY:
THE IMPALER
THE GHASTLY VRYKOLAK
THE HAUNTED STRIGOI
AND
PHALLUS A. BLAZE AS THE SKINNER OF CATS

FINAL DACTYLOMANTIC RITES BY LORD ELZEVIR

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LANDIS BLAIR
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