Art inspires so much in real life and is itself inspired by real life. Above, Dana Andrews puzzles over an ominous warning in Night of the Demon (1957) after leaving a farmhouse of coven members who practice a form of witchcraft in which people have to die after being given a slip of paper on which are written witch’s Futhark runes. 

   The murder of Cheri Jo Bates at Riverside Community College the day before Halloween 1966 has enough confounding elements in it without all of those that have later since been heaped upon it. 

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   For details and the solution, please read Gian J. Quasar’s book HorrorScope.

       An enlargement, above, of the symbol, as it appeared on the note to the
             press and the police, respectively.

The Theban alphabet. It is a mystical script used to conceal meanings or make signs, blessings or cursings.