Index: The Legacy - A Gothic Horror
The index for all 11 Chapters of my heavily stylised novella of twenty thousand words. Verbosity, affectation, creeping dread, unusual tortures, vermin, psychoses & themes of death.
The Legacy is that of the Reverend Severin Speighthart, a most furiously vile and judgemental man of the cloth. The Story tells of how, upon his death, he bestows upon his parishoners a terrible and enduring curse…but his ultimate legacy is of a different kind.
“Six feet of God’s dirt must cover the doomed, Mungo! Six feet under must they be and not an inch less!”
The Legacy: Part I
The Reverend Severin Speighthart was not a well-loved man. Heart cold as the stone of his church, his stare was baleful from the black pulpit whence flew his withering condemnations. His back was as stiff as his silver-topped stave and his voice was riven with a harsh hint of the ra…
“What is laid within the earth may not always rest there...”
The Legacy... Part II
Dear reader, in Part I we learned of the interment of the cruel Reverend Speighthart, but the story is far from ended with his coffin descending to the depths…
“A curse be upon them...”
For all eternity
A century of change...a bitterness that remains...
...and all creeping things that crawl upon the earth...
...the blood of the covenant...is thicker than the water of the womb...
"Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire."- Yeats
Taxus Baccata
"The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste." - Ministry
"Make a mark on the world that cannot be erased." - Maya Angelou
