A Devil in the Fireplace

England, 1348. The Black Death is in the village. Something else is too.John Pike, priest of Ashwrath, reads from a chronicle that knows more than he does — a record of a village dying of one sickness while another moves quietly through its lanes, leaving cold where warmth should be, silence where there should be sound, a mark in the mud with corners too sharp for any sole he knows.Two girls are still missing. A wisewoman waits in her leaning house for what she has known was coming. A careful constable keeps a list he has not yet finished.And in the iron case on Pike's desk, the seventh volume waits. (00:00) - The Chronicles of Ashwrath, episode three, A Devil in the Fireplace. (00:34) - Whispers of a Name (02:56) - Thomas Aldred's Bonfire (05:15) - Edmund Tate Returns Cold (07:59) - Vale's Bootprint Evidence (11:12) - Edith Crow's Warning (15:13) - Agnes and Ruth's Doorway (18:38) - A List of Unnatural Signs (21:48) - Devil in the Fireplace (24:31) - Reading the Seventh Volume (25:45) - Prayer for Ashrath (27:58) - The Iron Case Waits