Following a night of drunken excess, an Englishman in India desecrates a temple, angering a leper priest. Soon after, he begins behaving very oddly. Has he succumbed to a disease or is there something more mysterious at work? Strickland of the police determines to find out.

This original recording is an audio presentation (with sound effects and music) by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror. “The Mark of the Beast” by Rudyard Kipling (1890).

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About the story:

"The Mark of the Beast” by Rudyard Kipling. First published in The Pioneer, July 1890. Later collected in “Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People” by Rudyard Kipling (pub. Macmillan & Co., 1891).

Music credits:

Cinematic Desert 4 by Sascha Ende https://filmmusic.io/en/song/12562-cinematic-desert-4 under the following licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Music used : “HASTAR” composed and produced by Vivek Abhishek

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Music used : “CRAWL" composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"

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Music used : “HOWLING DARK" composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"

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Sound effects: All sound effects sourced at Freesound*

“Sri Rami Jai” chant https://freesound.org/people/Shobhika/sounds/521229/

*Used with the following licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Spotify.

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