Hourglass Skull Novels & Stories

A week later, House Six stood deep underground in Bunker 039. The air was colder this far down. More metallic. It scraped the lungs on inhale. "Okay," Samuel exhaled, stretching his arms behind his head. "We've officially seen some crazy shit." He wasn’t wrong. Bunker 027 had held fossilized bones of a creature that resembled a dinosaur but not any species known to science. Its skull had six eye sockets. Bunker 031 was an untouched treasure vault, overflowing with diamonds and precious stones. Joy had called it obscene.

We got to a particular place after mounting the stairs upwards, hence leading us to a higher floor, when I saw something that made me yell out sharply, like the sound a person would make when needle is jutted on his butt. But I took me minutes to realize that the sound had originated from my lips because I was momentarily frozen. It was a skull hung on a stick that had been dug a few feet below the ground. The skull was dipped in a crimson red color instead of the organic brown or white that it normally was. It was obvious that it was someone's blood that had been poured on the skull. I wondered if it was the blood of the people he murdered in the past. Somehow, I got the feeling that it was

Finally, it sank into the earth, creating a layer of dust as it met with a half-buried skull in the ground, half of which was visible from the outside and the other half was buried deep in the soil. For a brief moment, the skull started to vibrate violently, excavating a portion of it. Soon after, a large area of the earth surrounding the buried skull sank, creating a dent in the shape of a human being. Surprisingly, the broken skull reformed itself, the fractures healed, and the chipped off pieces reattached themselves. The remainder of the skeleton materialized out of nowhere, the bones aligning themselves on the dent, and ligament materializing out of nowhere, connecting the bones.

[Ezra] “And at last…” I mumbled, staring at the building that was structured like a giant skull with two hollow eyes acting like the only two windows and a wide open jaw as its entrance. Chiseled into the giant skull’s forehead were words that seemed to leer at passersby— Bone Voyage: Alive skeletons at your service since the first death in the wheel of time. Store open for purchase, rental and installments. Price negotiable for young aspiring healers. The store does not give any guarantee. The skeletons are subject to running away and other risks.

Then she started racing to the door of the cottage without minding the injury on her foot and her stomach. "Help me! Please, help me!" She banged on the closed door, the more she knocked and yelled, the rotten wood kept breaking away until it made a big hole in the door. She kicked the door and it sprang open immediately. Then she stopped as a shiver ran down her spine. "Is anyone at home?" She sniffed and slowly walked inside the cottage as a candle that was on a skull lit up immediately and it made her flinch. She looked at the antiquated cottage and marveled. She studied the skull and noticed that blood was dripping out from the mouth and eye sockets of the skulls.

It took me a long time to get him alone in there, and as soon as I thought about leaving him alone, he would get angry and turn around. "Come on, honey," I said, lowering my head to kiss him on the cheek. "Just for a little while." "Gollum." He turned and licked my chin, shrugged his shoulders, and lay down. "WHOO!" He didn't forget to turn his head to remind me. "Just a minute." "Normal bones, no deformities." "The brain is fully developed, at least for now..." "Huh? What's this?" On the screen, large shadows appear on the back and caudal vertebrae.

Cassini I lay back on the lounge chair in the shade while looking over the pool. We were on the top of a hill, so the city of Florence could be seen past the property a few miles into the distance. I read a book on my lap while I relaxed in my swimsuit, enjoying the summer heat while my cold drink perspired. Every few pages, my mind would start to wander. Wander to the man I met a few nights ago. He didn’t have a name, and his business card was even more unusual. The only detail was the sketch of a black skull. It was fossilized bone with a snake protruding out of the eye socket. I googled anything related to skulls online but couldn’t find anything relevant.

Its legs were jointed wrong—like a deer’s, but twisted, twitching with each step as it crept forward in sudden jerks, unnatural and insect-like. And its face—Gods, its face. A skull, half-covered in leathery skin, with hollow cheeks and deep, sunken eye sockets where two pinpricks of bright, ghostly fire stared straight through me. Its jaw hung open wide, far wider than any creature’s should. Rows of thin, needle-sharp teeth glistened with saliva that dripped and hissed as it hit the ground. The mouth didn’t move—not to speak, not to growl. It simply hung open… like it was always ready to consume.

Her face was scrunched in distaste and she was utterly disgusted by the sight of the building's interior. Not to mention how dimly illuminated the room was as she entered, she could see little of the items that were littered on the floor. Her legs smashed into the skull of a human being which was starting to decay and her legs got stuck in it. She let out a frustrated groan, her face in a deep scowl as she glared at nothing in common. She kicked the hideous-looking bone out of her legs, mumbling incoherent curses at no one in particular. The skull crashed straight into a pile of bones in a corner of the spooky room, causing it to scatter all over the floor.

Until he burrowed a hole at the back of the monster ape's head, trying to attack its brain. With the skull broken, Chu Xun wormed his way into the head of the gigantic yeti. Inside he found a tangle of arteries and veins, each horrifyingly thick, until he saw the brain, a wrinkled and crumpled mush of soft tissues so grotesquely huge.