In the House of Screaming Skulls by M Read online

  have been so hard to believe that they were the Sorrow has been the constant lot of the

  result of the curse of the poor farmer’s wife.

  family since the curse was laid on it. Down

  But they were real and any attempt to break

  through the generations, the chateau has

  them or get rid of them met with the most

  passed from one hand to another. None of the

  vehement resistance in the form of uncanny,

  families have ever been able to live in it for unearthly screaming.

  any great length of time. It cannot be sold, for Misfortune followed close upon the nobody will buy it; and the skulls make it so

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  uncomfortable for anybody but the Bouillards

  servants left in terror, and my poor mother

  that nobody will rent it.

  was almost scared to death with the awful

  The skulls are still there, but they moaning and shrieking that kept up all night.

  remain quiet unless somebody makes an Next morning, there were the skulls, perched attempt to get rid of them. Then they scream.

  on the staircase again.

  They have not been heard in years; in fact,

  Since that time the skulls have

  since my father, when he was a young man,

  remained at Lavignac undisturbed and far be it threw them into the Lugre. That night all the

  from me to ever touch them.