Slouching towards Whitby

First the appearance of the Sandsend blob, followed by a plague of rampaging rats, and prancing Goths. Next the arrival of a huge, inexplicable vulture, coinciding with an outbreak of religious icons being desecrated and children running amok as if possessed, then animals were being brutally killed by an unknown assailant. Now a mysterious black panther known as the Beast of the Bay has returned and is prowling again in and around the town of Whitby.

O flabby and sad men of Whitby, what terrible secrets, what crimes, what dark rituals must you be hiding for Whitby to be so damned?

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