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Aug 15
1h 23m

Nightmare Fuel #38: Samael's Curse (part...

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins
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In this thirty-eighth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet Samael Orcas. Is he a man? A monster? Both? Lizzie Chavez is determined to find out exactly who he is, why he keeps killing, and how to stop him. 

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