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Vacancy at the Devilsmouth Hotel

Finding skulls in your Easter basket, here’s a little pre-Halloween horror for your springtime delectation

Jay Squires
Published in
5 min readMay 4, 2024

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Devilsmouth Hotel
Photo by Robert Heiser on Unsplash

Devilsmouth was aptly named, though the village’s founder softened the truth of it by pronouncing it Devilsmuth, using the same reasoning, some might say, as one who pronounced the…

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