Dancing With The Devil by the Pale Moonlight
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
—Jonathan Harker.
Arkham Advertiser
Serial killer connected with satanic cult.
The police made the connection noticing esoteric symbols left behind the lat crime scene.
By Philip Jones
The standoffish serial killer, nicknamed by the media as "Nosferatu" for his singular obsession with bleeding out his victims, associated with at least six homicides, five of them students of the Miskatonic University, killed again after almost a month of inactivity since the double murder of the Smiths.
The mutilated body of Jane Lane, aged 19 and an art student at the notorious Miskatonic University, was found by a friend with whom she shared the small apartment at Pickmant Street. The police has confirmed that it's indeed another victim of the Nosferatu Killer.
"There's really no doubt it was Nosferatu," said Kyle Dencoyne, head detective in charge of the investigation. "We didn't found a single drop of blood. Not on the scene, not on the body. However," he continued, "we discovered diverse symbols carved on the victim's body. These are indeed satanic in origin. That's new information, and new information is always good for us." Additionally to all this, the murder scene was plagued with esoteric books. All this may be key for the inevitable capture of the Nosferatu Killer.
Dr. Wingate Peaslee, head of the psychology department at Miskatonic, who used to work as a criminal profiler specializing in serial killers, serial arsonist and other repeat offenders for the FBI, had an interesting opinion regarding the case, "The police think this will make things easier for them, well, I say they're looking in all the wrong places. There is no Nosferatu Killer, because it's not any one person. It's a cult. If the detectives were smart enough, they could have easily googled for past crimes and noticed that this same pattern is not a new one, but this has been going on for at least thirty years."
Neither Detective Dencoyne, nor anyone else at the Police cared for Peaslee's opinions in the matter.