Written by Mr. Mouseburger 31st Mar 2006

Kindly submitted by Kooshmeister

Naturalist and explorer Frederick Britewell has only just returned to England from Africa when he meets his maker. The events leading up to his inevitable demise are horrendously clichéd; you know he's a dead man the moment he sets foot in Clear House.

For starters, he makes the classic movie mistake of nosing around the lab of a suspicious scientist, in this case entomologist Dr. Carl Mallinger. Then he lets himself be taken in by Dr. Mallinger's daughter, Clare, who invites him to go for a moonlight walk on the grounds of the estate. Frederick, having fallen hard for this girl, seems to forget all about the murders he'd heard about and agrees to go with her.

Clare sees the full moon and asks Frederick if it makes him feel romantic. "I don't need the moon to make me feel romantic," he says, turning on the charm. He tries to get kissy-kissy with her but she tells him he must catch her first.

After telling him to cover his eyes, she runs off into the bushes. When Frederick uncovers his eyes, he finds himself face to face with a monstrous creature of some sort emerging from the brush. We only catch a glimpse of it: it's entirely black, with large, red insectoid eyes and antennae, and, as we see when it attacks Frederick, it also has bat-like wings. Suffice it to say, the night did not go quite as he had intended, and he is killed.