Give Yourself the Shivers with This Spooky Tale From the 9th Century.
Enjoy this short historical fiction horror story inspired by the Annals of Fulda this Halloween!
The Shadow
A short historical fiction horror story inspired by the Annals of Fulda.
Preface
The following short story is inspired by an actual account in the Annals of Fulda. The account describes strange events perpetrated by a maleficent entity who allegedly tormented the village of Bingen (in modern-day Germany) for three years in the latter portion of the 9th Century. It is considered one of the earliest mentions of an attempted exorcism.
I originally wrote and published this short story back in 2015. In the transition between publishers and websites and all those fun life events, I thought it had been lost, and I found it again just this week—in time for Halloween! I hope you enjoy this short piece of historical/horror fiction. Read to the end for my translation of the actual account from the Annals of Fulda.
Was there a maleficent being causing trouble in a remote German village in the late 9th century? The answer is for the reader to decide.
The Shadow
I was eleven when it arrived in …
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