The Horror of Skull Face

By John Leader

.......As they continued the digging Father Santa Cruz recounted the events that led to the burial box. Sometime in the year of Cortez’s travel, some Jesuit Priests were entrusted with a special closed wooden box. It was a simple casket created and used during the Spanish Inquisition. The story tells that a poor soul by the name of Francisco Moreno y Vivas was given one final chance to confess his acts against the ruling church. He refused. Many of his bones were broken, his flesh torn and.....
.... The skeleton and hungry evil skull evoked demonic fear. Horror and terror soaked their bodies and brought forth pain for one agonizing instant. Father Santa Cruz repeated the chant one more time. The evil creature froze, put his skeletal arms down, bowed its malevolent skull and placed his bony arms at his side. The black cloak around him disappeared revealing a skeleton dripping live red blood out of its bones.......

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Leader
• Release date: Oct 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301274550

John Leader

John Leader enjoys writing science fiction, his first choice. He writes horror just as well. He works using commercial arts techniques and creates his own book covers. His science fiction stories take on action adventure themes.He reads general and technical magazines and books when he can find good materials.He is a part time martial arts practitioner and is familiar with a variety of defense systems.

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The Horror of Skull Face

By John Leader

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The Horror Of Skull Face / My Love, My Hate, And My Voodoo Murders / Zombie Love Stories

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The Horror of Skull Face

By John Leader

Contents

Part I

The Horror of Skull Face

Part II

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About The Author

Part I

The Horror of Skull Face

Few know the myth and legend of Skull Face, or the horror and terror that comes with him. He comes for souls, for blood, for victims of all sizes and ages. His walk is silent, his touch is chilling cold, and his sardonic smile pierces deep as it cuts into you. Few have faced Skull Face and lived. If you mean by lived it means always fearing his hideous return.

Where his roots sprang no one is absolutely sure. His presence is the only meaning that terror and horror are real. As I think I know that I was young that October day. The black that came with the night was burned with ugly scars into my soul. Some say he let some live to face his ghostly return later.

It is that month again and that thirty-first day well known as Halloween. The witching hour nears and Andrew Blackman knows in his heart it is time again. Facing Skull Face will sign his end at one second past midnight. Blackman has hung his Halloween decorations like his neighbors but he knows this Halloween night will be horribly different.

Out of his basement he has pulled out a dusty and old rotting, smelly, dirty chest. It looks older than time itself and smells of human decayed flesh. The knotted wood decayed, but not consumed. Blackman has been looking