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Podcast: 1001 Ghost, Chiller & Lovecraft Stories
Episode: THE SCREAMING SKULL (PT 1) by F. MARION CRAWFORD
Description: The Screaming Skull is a monologue, written in 1908 by the Italian-American writer and historian Francis Marion Crawford. On the surface it's a hammy story of a worldly old sea captain who has inherited the house of a doctor friend, whose wife predeceased him in mysterious circumstances. In a cupboard of the master bedroom, Captain Braddock discovers a bandbox containing the top half of a skull. "One always remembers one's mistakes much more vividly that one's cleverest things, doesn't one?" he muses, confiding that his big mistake was to entertain the doctor with murder stories, one of which involved a w...