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Tonight's featured story, in honour of the season, is about collecting stories of the dreaded hell hound (from the BBC):
The terrifying story of the 'hell hound' By Katy Prickett BBC NewsTerrifying tales of "hell hounds" - ferocious black dogs, eyes glowing and teeth bared as they wreak vengeance on the population - have been the stuff of legend for centuries. It has cemented the place of these mythical beasts in English folklore, but how and why have accounts of their terrifying marauding spread so far and wide?
In 1577, according to one particularly poetic account, a snarling beast broke into a church, rampaged through the congregation and bit the necks of two people - who promptly dropped dead.
Having traumatised the churchgoers of Bungay in Suffolk, the mythical dog - known as Black Shuck - next cropped up on the county's coast at Blythburgh.
Again, it targeted worshippers - bursting though the doors of Holy Trinity Church before killing a man and boy and causing the steeple to collapse.
The beast left scorch marks on the church door, according to legend.
Photographer and researcher Nick Stone is mapping similar stories and has so far collected between 400 and 500 accounts.
More below the folded sheet (the orange one, not that one floating midair over there):