"The Skin-Collector" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights
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Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast
48 min
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8 chapters
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What triggers Jessie's obsession with the missing friend Emma?
Suuret päätökset voivat viedä kauas. Siksi tarvitsen rinnalleni kumppanin, joka ymmärtää, minne olen menossaan. Nordea Private Bankingissa. Oma sijoitusjohtajani tuo selkeyttä päätöksiini. Ja vie minut askeleen edelleen. Nordaa.fi Kohta privatebankin.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Sirkus Finlandia jlauoden liput myynnissä! Voima miehä, klaja, ilmaakropatia, kuoleman pyörä! Mahtava sirkusorkesi, suomen suurin sirkus elämäys, tuo huippu artisti, tähtikuin alle. Sirkus Finlandia 50 vuotta. Osta liput, sirkus Finlandia 5.fi.
Jessie wondered if she and her brother would have more in common if they had been identical twins. The differences didn't surface unless you spent several days watching them. Minus the lack of identical faces, they seemed to have the same bond that every other pair of twins had. They could finish each other's sentences. They could communicate with a flash of a glance or eye movement. Yet, as close as they were as siblings, they were still far apart as individuals. Alec was a gun nut, as much as he could be without having his own. He read the magazines, knew all the makes and specs by heart, down to the magazine capacities and body mods and all else. That uncle that could talk about cars for three hours and you never understood a word?
That's how Alec was with guns. Yet he was cool headed and aimed with a steady hand when his dad took him to the firing range. So, where Alec enjoyed blowing things up, Jesse liked blowing things out of proportion. Her parents swore that she would become a journalist, as much as she loved sticking her nose in other people's business. Hey, she might as well get paid for it. One thing they would be sharing, like it or not, was the new car that their dad bought for their sixteenth birthday. The twins had already shared everything else: their living space, their food, their beds, their secrets. Sharing a car wouldn't be an issue.
Happy birthday, kids.
Jessie came unglued when she was led outside with her brother, both of them blindfolded, and then the blindfolds were snapped off to reveal the dull, slightly rusted Plymouth with powder blue paint freckled with rust. The brightest part of the car was the sloppy gift ribbon that had been wrapped around it. Jessie forgot all about supper and couldn't contain her excitement, begging her parents to let her and Alec take it out for a drive right then. They agreed on two conditions. One, the more level headed of the siblings would drive, and they all knew that meant Alec. Two, they would check in every 15 minutes. That last condition was more their mother's than anyone else's. There had been a rash of disappearances in the area.
It was a prickly frustration to officials because the targets had no rhyme or reason. No consistent age or location, but Rich, poor, north, south, east, or west. It didn't matter. They had found a warm body to pin the crimes on, an unshorn and bug-eyed character that was barely fit to stand trial. He was the type that would take responsibility for the extinction of the dinosaurs if asked. But he pleaded guilty to the kidnappings, spouting wild and incoherent explanations for motives and locations of disposal and so forth, giving law enforcement and forensics a thick and chunky soup of logic to wade through. It was better than nothing. Better than believing the monster was still out there. The whole thing blew over just before spring, and by the time the twins had a new car to play with, it was the first chill of autumn.
But parental instincts run deep and will make good moms and dads jump at shadows long after there's no longer a threat casting them. Alec was driving and Jesse had shotgun. She laced back her feet up on the dashboard. The joke was on them, really. They thought that they were getting extra freedom and their dad was a really awesome guy. Which he was, but his gift wasn't completely unselfish. Now, they could drive themselves to school. They lived out in the sticks, and making it to school on time had meant a rise and shine that their parents never got used to.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What triggers Jessie's obsession with the missing friend Emma?
0:08–7:29
2
How do Jessie and Alec’s first drive to the mysterious barn unfold?
7:29–12:19
3
What strange sounds and sights do the twins encounter at the abandoned barn?
12:19–18:12
4
How does the creature’s terrifying appearance change the twins’ perception of reality?
18:12–24:28
5
What happens when the twins try to capture evidence of the monster?
24:28–30:28
6
How do the school counselor and classmates react to Jessie’s claims?
30:28–37:00
7
What plan do Jessie and Alec devise to investigate the barn again?
37:00–42:09
8
How does the final confrontation with the skin‑stealing entity end?
42:09–48:08
Speakers
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