{"id":3441,"date":"2012-07-26T10:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:26:25","slug":"the-blackmoor-hound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/the-blackmoor-hound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blackmoor Hound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px 4px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0001CNRLQ\/rpglibrary\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51TJYXBG5VL.jpg\" alt=\"Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection\" title=\"Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I typically have DVDs or something from Netflix streaming in the background while I work. As it happens, today I am running through the Universal Frankenstein movies. The movie currently running is Bride Of Frankenstein, which is actually my favorite of the series.<\/p>\n<p>So I am typing away, adding validation to web forms (not a sexy project, but important nonetheless), and I notice that the sound of howling hounds is really loud. I stop and listen, and then I pause the DVD &#8212; the howling continues. The howling is coming from the woods behind Castle Blackmoor, out toward the creek that feeds the moors. Curious, I went outside to look and see what was doing all of this howling.<\/p>\n<p>I got to the edge of the path which leads off down to the outpost, and the howling stopped. Not abruptly, mind you: it just sort of faded away. As I stood there, the woods were eerily silent, somehow made even more eerie by the bright sunny sky above. The sounds of wildlife, birds, churring insects and so on gradually came back, and then a bit later, I heard the howl again, so far away that I could barely hear it.<\/p>\n<p>At which point I realized that I&#8217;d come outside without even taking along a pistol, much less a proper rifle, as one might reasonably do when investigating a mysterious howling on the moors. Imagine how foolish I&#8217;d have felt if I&#8217;d found the source of the howling.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to criticize the behaviour of victims in horror movies when they do foolish things: going into dark basements alone, going outside to investigate strange noises, chasing an escaped cat in one&#8217;s space-underwear, and so on. 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