The Legend Of The Screaming Skull

By Karen Stollznow

Gorehill House is home to one of England’s legendary screaming skulls.

It was Lord Wigbert’s final request that his skull remain in his childhood home. When a new owner moves into the mansion he tries to dispose of the gruesome artifact.

What will happen when a dead man’s final wish is not honored?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karen Stollznow
• Release date: Feb 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781370802470

Karen Stollznow

Bestselling author Karen Stollznow's non-fiction works include Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility; On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present; Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic; God Bless America; Haunting America, and Would You Believe It? Her fiction includes the anthology Fisher's Ghost and Other Stories; the novel Hits & Mrs.; and the short stories Unforeseen Circumstances; Don't Leave Me; Welcome Home; The Dark Road; I Am Me; Room for One More: Lord Dufferin's Tale; The Screaming Skull; The Way We Weren't; Leap of Faith (The Guardian Angel); and Oliver & Olivia.A host of the popular science podcast Monster Talk, she has spent many years investigating urban legends and folklore. A Doctor of Linguistics, she has taught at several universities in the United States and Australia. She was formerly a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a researcher at Griffith University. Karen was born in Sydney, Australia, and she currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

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The Legend Of

The Screaming Skull

(A Short Story)

By Karen Stollznow

Copyright © Karen Stollznow 2020

All Rights Reserved

www.karenstollznow.com

Front cover design: Matthew Baxter

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Also by Karen Stollznow

Unforeseen Circumstances

Don’t Leave Me

I Am Me

The Dark Road

Welcome Home

Room For One More

Would You Believe It?

Hits & Mrs.

God Bless America

Haunting America

Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic

"That skull has got to go," Jack muttered to himself.

He had recently purchased Gorehill House, and everything in it, at an estate sale. In doing so he had acquired many antiques, collectibles, and curios, and also a valet named Sinclair, but he disliked the gruesome skull that sat in the middle of the mantelpiece in the living room.

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