The Footprints of Satan Author:Norman Berrow When Greg Cushing visits his old Uncle Jake in Steeple Thelming, he intends to try and get over the recent loss of his drowned wife. His uncle lives a simple life with his books and donkey Boomer; his main social activity being drinking to excess at the local pub. But one morning after a snowfall Greg is among the residents of the village who ma... more »rvel at a string of footprints that appear to have been made by a four-foot tall creature with hooves. The trail begins in the middle of nowhere, stretches up the road, goes in and out of gardens to front doors, over six foot high walls and fences, through solid buldings, on top of steeply sloping roofs, and ends abruptly by a dead tree where a witch was said to have been hanged centuries before. When the police are called to look into the mystery, they find not only the impossible trail, but a recently dead body. Originally published in 1950.« less