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The Living Elder God
A Lovecraftian tale of things that should not be disturbed.
“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
(Hebrews 10:31)
1 — A Bucket of Blood
When people found out that I’d studied forensic science the conversation would inevitably end up with me commenting on various police crime shows that never seem to fall out of popularity on television.
Then, when people found out that I went on to actually work with the police, it would also inevitably progress to me describing the most unsettling, gory, and generally horrendous crime scenes that I’d witnessed to date.
People have always seemed to have a strange fascination with crime.
It seems to have been magnified enormously as the older written tales of macabre happenings and human depravity that left everything to the reader’s imagination were transformed into the modern-day lurid and disturbing on-screen images of horror that really leave very little to the imagination.
But, what is not generally known, or is perhaps ignored when it comes to transferring the imaginings of a crime writer to the screen, are the truly disturbing events that people in my profession come across and the effect it has on the people who have to deal with them.
