Horror Burkeswood, Buckminster: The Unhoused Dead of Barrow Heath v1. 14 Dec 2025

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Some houses wait for tenants. Some bodies do, too.

Hidden inside a bricked-up wall at Barrow Heath, a country solicitor finds a stained bundle of pages in a small wooden box. The manuscript, written by a man awaiting the gallows, claims to tell the true story behind one of the most notorious deaths in the county: the murder of Maude Ruthyn, a fragile young ward who never should have crossed paths with a certain physician and his forbidden books.

How far will a rational man go to prove that the soul can be moved, and what waits on the other side of that experiment once the door stands open?

This short story is a fun read for a cold afternoon.

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