Horror Stories from Horrified - Volume One (2)

?Swear!? they scr eamed in chor us.
?I don?t want to,? I begged.
I cover ed my ear s and sank to the gr ound. A how l of disappointment w ent up
ar ound me, r inging in my ear s.
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The stor y ends exactly w her e I left it. I must?ve passed out? or maybe w oke
up?? because the next thing I knew it was mor ning. The long br ow n gr ass was
w et w ith dew. The silver sun was sliding up the sky. The ghosts w er e gone
fr om Ker sal Moor.
I?m for ty now. People tell me I look older.
I w ouldn?t say I believe in ghosts, exactly, because I waited a long time on the
moor that night. Maybe I just fell asleep and had a nightmar e. I don?t think I
did, but it?s cer tainly possible.
The next w inter solstice to fall on a new moon was the one at the end of 2003.
I don?t mind saying I was too scar ed to leave the house that night. I just sat in
the kitchen w ith a six-pack of beer , pr aying that I w ouldn?t hear them singing
on the near by moor. It happened again in 2014, but I?d moved to Br istol by
then and didn?t feel as thr eatened.
The w or ds of the song w er e:
O, unless you are a vicar
Hell will have your soul for sure
The Devil?s quick but we were quicker
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