Hello, gentle listener, and welcome to nocturnal transmissions, the fortnightly podcast that brings you dark tales both old and new, performed by voice artist Kristen Holland. We do hope you enjoyed

the first installment of our two-part presentation of Hazel Heels, The Horror in the Museum.

If you haven't listened to this previous episode yet, I strongly recommend you stop listening

to this one now and go back and listen to part one.

I mean, what are you thinking?

This episode clearly says part two.

Why would you deliberately go about ruining the story for yourself

by listening to the conclusion before consuming the commencement?

This second chapter is obviously the dessert,

and you haven't even touched your chicken frigasy!

For the rest of you, lovely listeners, who have diligently listened to our previous

installment, please sit back, relax and allow your mind to drift into its darkest recesses as we rejoin our skeptical protagonist, Mr. Jones.

When we left him a fortnight ago, he had just accepted the challenge to spend the night alone within the dark confines of Mr. Rogers' Museum of Waxon Abominations.

Nocturnal Transmissions is proud to present part two of Hazel Heald's The Horror in the Museum

Later, in the utter blackness of the great arched cellar,

Jones cursed the childish naivety which had brought him there. For the first half-hour, he had kept flashing on his pocket-light at intervals, but now, just sitting in the dark on one of the visitor's benches, had become a more nerve-wracking thing. Every time the beam shot out it lighted up some morbid, but grotesque object.

A guillotine, a nameless hybrid monster, a pasty bearded face, crafty with evil,

a body with red torrents streaming from a severed throat.

Jones knew that no sinister reality was attached to these things,

but after that first half hour,

he preferred not to see them.

Why he had bothered to humour that madman he could scarcely imagine, it would have been much simpler merely to have left him alone, or to have called in a mental specialist.

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