#351.2 – Strange Tales XI.2: The Body Won’t Behave
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#351.2 – Strange Tales XI.2: The Body Won’t Behave

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 23, 202634 min

It’s one thing to go invading the resting places of the dead and reaping the well-deserved consequences of your own bad choices. But it’s a different kind of horror entirely when you don’t even need a shovel and the dead are perfectly capable of getting up all on their own. Hopping corpses, flying corpses, corpses sneaking out for a midnight rendezvous, and a few bodies that are still technically alive, but behaving very, very badly. So keep a broom handy... and a couple of bells... just in case. Because tonight, it turns out rigor mortis is... more o...

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