Head Hunter - The Knocking On the Roof
It's Halloween night, and the Marlowe family is headed home from a perfect evening of trick-or-treating in Pine Hollow. Then the station wagon dies on a dark, empty stretch of road. Mom and Dad go to find help and leave the radio on for the kids. Hours pass. A bulletin interrupts the music: a dangerous prisoner has escaped nearby. And then, from the roof of the car, comes a sound.
Clank. Clank. Clank.
Tonight's story is not a Carman's Crypt original. "Head Hunter" is my retelling of a classic urban legend, one that has been passed around campfires and sleepovers for generations. I kept the…
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