"Imagine
the scene: it’s late one cold, dark, winter’s eve in a little old hamlet in
central England. You’re walking home, along a winding, tree-shrouded old road
with only the light of an eerie full moon to illuminate your path. But, as you
continue on your trek to your centuries-old cottage, you begin to feel uneasy.
"For reasons that you are unable to fathom,
as the icy wind sends a deep chill through your body, you develop the distinct
feeling that you are not alone. Rather, you sense that you are being watched
and followed by something terrible, something malignant, something nightmarish,
and something as ancient as it is mysterious.
"Then something truly ominous occurs: you
begin to hear the vague sound of panting – animalistic panting, no less – and
the unmistakable sound of heavy, beastly paws hitting the road behind you. A
terrible realization suddenly hits you hard: you are being followed, or stalked, by some sort of large,
predatory animal. It’s an animal that – even though you have yet to see it up
close and personal – you know deep in your heart has you firmly in its sights."
That's how my new Lair of the Beasts article at Mania.com starts - on Britain's legendary and spectral black dogs...
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