Your Gothic Nightmare

Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard
scenario by Callum Brady, age 18

Sad is the tale of two emaciated lab assistants, the first, Osric an embittered artist no longer considering himself human in any biological sense following an aborted suicide attempt with the contents of an apothecary, and based on withheld information decided by exploitative minds believes that the same chemicals that killed him were those that brought him a new life of depraved hermitage. The second Herbert, a tragic young psychic talent crushed by personal tragedy and vice shares a miserable existence with his troubled comrade. Two years pass after the doctor they work for dies in which time the two are left to their own devices, hopelessly following the absurd projects of their former master in the fields of telekinesis and the effects of death on human brain capacity in the haunting environment of an abandoned Victorian hospital.

Tensions spill over and Osric leaves into the outside world seeking new energy in his work. This time proves ill chosen for while Osric begins to assemble an ancient machine designed to help him to find like-minded individuals based on musical taste two more figures appear in the bleak metropolis. Alexander Streltzy, a student about to begin university studies but must first clear up a legal issue relating to his estranged sister and Katherine Streltzy, a jealous and sadistic girl with a hatred of Osric for his involvement in her grandfather’s morbid experiments while she was left aside. The four are plunged into a sordid family affair where we discover Katherine’s part in Osric’s chemical downfall and learn the mysterious Doctor’s abusive scientific conduct as well as his plans for his diabolical revival bringing together the corrupted but ever strong psychic abilities of Herbert, Osric’s physical abnormalities, Katherine’s issues of contempt and the true natur! e of the seemingly innocent Alexander.

Here we see the unknown capacity of the doctor in the gloomth of a ruined abbey, and while all around him scientific revolutions take place, selfishly considers building his preservation chamber in the innards of a desecrated mausoleum. An arrogant slap in the face of morality and everlasting tribute to quack sciences.

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