“SKELETON” by Ray Bradbury #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It’s #ThrillerThursday and this time I bring you a strange story from master storyteller, Ray Bradbury. The story is odd in the beginning and gets slowly darker as it progresses. Our protagonist, Mr. Harris, has slowly become more and more obsessed with his own skeleton – which he only sees as a symbol of death, as an enemy. He sees his skeleton not as a part of him, but as a separate entity continually working against him… eventually coming to believe his skeleton is trying to kill him. While it’s obvious the man is quite mad, it’s still an interesting journey as he plunges further down into his madness as the story moves forward.

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“Skeleton” by Ray Bradbury: https://amzn.to/3TY0esq
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Originally aired: April 11, 2024

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0:00.0	Strange Creatures expeditions, an age-old malevolence, and much more.
0:14.8	Author G.C. Moore delivers a collection of dark horror tales that are both chilling and
0:19.9	poignant.
0:21.4	Dark intrigues, book one, is filled with horror fiction for fans of short story anthologies, horror
0:27.3	collections, ghost fiction, suspense,ession, and More.
0:32.8	Dark Intrigues Book 1 by J.C. Moore, available on Kindle or as an audiobook narrated
0:38.8	by Darren Marler.
0:40.4	Find Dark Intrigues Book 1 on the audiobooks page at Weird Darkness.com.
0:45.0	That's Weird Darkness.com slash audiobooks. Our next we were to watch party is Saturday, April 13th.
0:57.0	Are all the men gathered and all the fools?
1:00.0	We'll be treated to a Roger Corman craprapfest from 1958, teenage caveman starring Robert
1:06.2	Vaughn.
1:07.2	There are shadows there deep and cold and dirt that eats men.
1:10.0	Did he just say dirt that eats men?
1:12.2	There are shadows there deep and cold and dirt that eats men.
1:15.6	Yep, guess so.
1:16.6	Mistress Malicious and her Mistress Peace Theater
1:19.1	will keep us entertained throughout the film as we watch this caveman teenager with great hair go into the
1:25.2	jungle to fight prehistoric monsters like dogs and and armadillo, whatever, they're prehistoric creatures.
1:35.0	An animal is far more terrible than any you've seen.
1:38.0	Our way to watch party is always free to watch online, so grab your popcorn, candy, candy and soda and jump into the fun and even
1:45.0	get involved in the live chat as we watch the movie.
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