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This is an excerpt from Larry Stephen Pembroke’s last interview (Sunday, March 14th, 1967) with Franklin Soames, investigative reporter for The Weirskin Herald, only two days before his execution for “The Woods Hollow Ritual Murder�� of his alleged daughter, 12-year old Margaret Celeste Pembroke.

“These interviews sound poetic, yet they are still only the insane ramblings of a madman trying to justify his horrific crime.���� Franklin Soames

“It lives with purest love as deep as night, a bloody...

Why do you yearn for The Sweet Black of Night?

For often I have seen your face out of hiding

In dimly lit corners of ancient ruins

In the deep and jagged cuts of cracked and weather-beaten stone

And I have seen you gazing eternally towards

The Sweet Black of Night.

Your dark countenance wearily creeps west

Away from the light of the rising sun

In a sad yet cold farewell to

The Sweet Black of Night.

Your hard features gladly edge east

Away from the light of the setting sun

Like some monolith...

I was a punky little Puerto Rican kid from a broken family stuck in a simple superstitious culture that had very little to say about any of Plato’s virtues, Truth, Honor, and particularly Justice, and a lot more to say about reputation, disrespect and retribution, namely revenge. It wasn’t an easy place to grow up, my neighborhood—a low-rent housing project full of disillusionment, anger and brutality. Throwing a fist or two or ducking a few at a full run were my likely responses when confro...

Frank Soames is an elderly man haunted by a terrible tragedy that happened when he was only a boy. It involved an old woman with a supernatural power to transform into a murderous flock of fiery crows—and her loyal demonic canine familiar she called Woolf��

Frank’s girlfriend, Eileen, and Kenny, his little brother, were both killed by this evil pair during the Tremont Homestead Fire of 1931, a huge blaze that scorched an entire stretch of land that was once a wheat farm. Frank chose to forget...

This is an excerpt from Larry Stephen Pembroke’s last interview (Sunday, March 14th, 1967) with Franklin Soames, investigative reporter for The Weirskin Herald, only two days before his execution for “The Woods Hollow Ritual Murder�� of his alleged daughter, 12-year old Margaret Celeste Pembroke.

“These interviews sound poetic, yet they are still only the insane ramblings of a madman trying to justify his horrific crime.��

�� Franklin Soames

“It lives with purest love as deep as night, a blood...

In 1973, a group of eight boys disappeared in a section of Hackers Woods surrounding The Woods Hollow, and not one of them ever returned home; except for Jeffrey Stark, however, if that’s who this boy really was. You see, the boy that finally returned from the woods staggered to Jeffrey Stark’s parent’s home a half mile from Hackers Woods and knocked on their front door almost ten years later, still only 11 years old. Jeffrey’s parents no longer lived there; and luckily for them because this...

The original spelling of makittan in Lenape is machtitkittan, meaning “blood river,�� so the Makittan River is known to Weirskin locals as “The Blood River.�� It cuts right through the center of town from west to southeast and the banks along that river have been the setting of the strangest stories ever told in Weirskin.

In 1867, there was a Christian fundamentalist sect that established a settlement near the Makittan River. It was led by ex-Baptist minister Reverend Maynard “Moses�� Clement wh...

In 1895, successful entrepreneur Maxwell Hacker discovered a vein of ore in what is now called Hackers Woods on the northern edge of the small town of Weirskin, Pa. Hacker began mining the ore and soon became a very rich man. He later gave that business up for something more interesting when he discovered a pocket of earth near the mine was filled with what he thought were magical crystals. Hacker believed the crystals could somehow expand one’s mind with visions and psychic powers by simply...

During the summer of 1963, the decomposing body of a “strange unidentified creature�� was found in Hackers Woods near some bushes along the perimeter of The Woods Hollow. The story of this fantastic find was the talk of the town and became a national albeit short-lived sensation. It was reported in a small article featured in the December 1963 issue of Weirdz Magazine:

“Animal or What?��

“The decomposing body of a strange unidentified creature was discovered partially hidden in the dense fol...