Episode 5: He Felt the Fine Sapphire Jewels Come Out Upon her Face

Small permissions. That’s how it always begins.

Almost every serial killer ever interviewed expresses some version of the same sequence of events — a series of tiny aberrant behaviors that start out as merely odd and gradually slip into a type of criminality unthinkable to most of us: Spying on a neighbor gives way to following a stranger home, then to burglary, then to home invasion. Like many compulsive behaviors, the perpetrator often loses sight of the boundaries they’ve crossed. And what appear as furtive steps toward an abyss become, with hindsight, a backslide into oblivion.

That process is explored in tonight’s story, also by Bradbury, entitled Midnight, in the Month of June. Told through the eyes of the killer lurking in the shadows of last night’s tale, this story shows us clearly —if indirectly— what happened after Lavinia Nebbs got home from the movies that summer night in 1928. The tone here is quite different though. Gone is the nervous humor, the performative bravery in walking when your heart says run. The streetlights of Green Town have all gone out. All that remains is the dark, and what hides there.

Hosted by the Fundertaker

Music by Gothic Husband

30 minutes.