Hall of Mirrors, Tails of Horror and The Grotesque, written and performed for

Podcast by Mike Bennett. This podcast is intended for an adult audience.

Hair and Skin Part 4.

Devir ran back into his operating theatre, tearing his bloody apron from around him as he went.

There was no time to hide all the signs of his crimes before Mason got up to the office. He'd just have to shut it all in here and wait till the

stupid fool had left. He ran over to the Wash Basin and snatched up a small bar of soap. He turned on the tap and thrust his gore streaked arms beneath the flow of water,

rubbing the soap frantically between his

most recent atrocity down the drain in an incarnadine swirl.

The distant sound of a fist striking the door of the front office.

Devir grabbed a towel and dried his hands.

He wondered again at what it was that he'd heard Charles say down there about

London's homeless.

Could it be that he knew?

Could he have connected the face and the paper with his own?

If so, what was this?

Surely the fool didn't hope to blackmail him.

No, the man was richer than royalty.

What then?

Surely he wasn't here to try and talk him into giving himself up to the authorities.

He closed the door to the theatre and hurried up the hall to the front office, rolling down his shirt sleeves and buttoning his cuffs as he went. Once in, he closed the door to the hall and took a moment to compose himself.

He smoothed his hair, checked his general appearance in the mirror, then walked calmly

across to the front office door and opened it.

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