Skull Lady

Come in, come into my CASTLE BOYS AND GHOULS! Our LAST LURID-LITERATURE is here. It concerns two kids who are both orphans, but are much like Brother and Sister. This FABLE during a FULL MOON is called...

A boy and teenage girl ran through the side yard out to the front yard of a home over in the countryside of northern-Scotland, and passed a sign reading: “McDougall’s Orphanage” one Autumn day back in 1954. The teenager was chasing the boy and they were laughing together. “Tag you are it, Shamus ha-ha!” the teenage girl told the boy, grabbing his shoulder. “Oh, golly, Mariam, ye better run lassie!” Shamus responded to her and started chasing her. Mariam ran to one side of a tree and as Shamus tapped her on her head, a stirn-looking man stepped into the yard from out of the orphanage. “Shamus, Mariam, ye both have chores to do. Get into thee house before I flog ye lad and lass!!” the man shouted at them. “Yes Mr. O’Riley sir” they said to him, with a frown and walked into the orphanage.

Shamus and Mariam walked into the kitchen and Mariam started mopping, as Shamus scrubbed the kitchen-table with a wet cloth from the mop bucket. Mr. O’Riley walked in and flogged Shamus in his back with a whip. The boy screamed out in pain. “Ye are cleaning our table thee wrong way Shamus ye dim witted boy!” Mr. O’Riley shouted and left the kitchen as Shamus cried. Mariam hugged him. That night, Shamus came into a bedroom where Mariam was sitting up reading “A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens”. The boy was bruised on his neck and cheek. “What in the world happened Shamus??!!” Mariam asked him, shocked. “Mr. O’Riley struck me in thee neck and face over and over because I prepared his supper too cold apparently, Mariam” he said, telling her. “I am so sorry poor boy. You and I are like Brother and Sister, even though we are not” she explained, hugging him as he cried. “Aye, thank ye Mariam. Ye and I are thee only two orphans living here” Shamus said. Two hours later, Shamus and Mariam were asleep in the bed. Outside their bedroom window, the yellow moon grew full.

Mr. O’Riley sat in a chair by a roaring-fireplace in the parlor. He poured scotch out of a bottle into a glass and drank it. As a grandfather-clock ticked next to the fireplace, an eerie, high-pitched screech came from on the staircase in the hall. Mr. O’Riley gasped, dropping his bottle of scotch on the floor and spilling it. From the staircase and into the parlor came a horrifying thing. It was a sort of monster which wore a black flowing-dress, and had long branches for arms and hands. The thing had long, ratty-black hair, and its face was that of a decomposing-skull. “I am known as Skull Lady sir” the female monster introduced itself to Mr. O’Riley as in a whispery-voice of a female. As Skull Lady stepped closer to Mr. O’Riley, the fire in the fireplace blew out, and the whispery-laughter of Skull Lady was heard. The monster reached her long branch-limbs out to Mr. O’Riley’s quivering-throat and crushed it, mustering him instantly.

Then, within the darkness of the parlor, the sounds of the creature’s slurping were heard. The next morning, Mariam woke up and saw that Shamus was not in bed, so she walked out of their bedroom then. It was silent and Mariam walked down the staircase, calling: “Shamus, where are you at?”, asking. She walked into the hallway and passed the parlor into the kitchen at the end of the hallway. Shamus stood in the corner of the kitchen, holding a hatchet in his hands. “Shamus, what is going on around here?” Mariam asked him. “I spotted a monster last night Mariam. It came into our bedroom and then disappeared” he answered. A lady walked into the kitchen. “Top of thee morning, Mrs. McDougall madam” Mariam and Shamus said to her. “Top of thee morning Shamus me lad and Mariam me lass” Mrs. McDougall told them. “Mr. O’Riley always flogged and struck me as long as I have lived here ma’am!” Shamus said to her. “Yes, Mrs. McDougall madam, we both were frightened to say anything to you” Mariam said, confirming.

“Oh me dear, ye poor lad, Shamus!” Mrs. McDougall said. “Aye, I spotted a monster last evening ma’am. That ‘tis why I have this hatchet” Shamus said, explaining to Mrs. McDougall. The three went into the parlor and the skeleton of Mr. O’Riley sat in the chair. “Mrs. McDougall gasped in surprised shock. Mariam whispered to Shamus, “do not worry Shamus, I am the monster. I am known as Skull Lady and just transform when there is a full moon out. I saved you from Mr. O’Riley. He was delicious”. Shamus smiled at her.

Good for Mariam. She and Shamus were like Siblings. She TOOK SCARE of Mr. O’Riley with the help of THE GHOUL MOON hee-hee-hee-hee! Mariam became SCARE-RIAM aha. She had quite A BONE TO PICK with Mr. O’Riley, so she PICKED HIS CLEAN heh-heh-heh!

   Skull Lady