Taken from the 1980 BBC1 Jackanory spinoff 'Spine Chillers' that featured abridged readings of classic spooky stories by the likes of Saki, M.R. James, John Wyndham and in this instance H. G. Wells, read by Freddie Jones.
Originally published in the Pall Mall Budget on 23 August 1894, two greedy English treasure hunters kill a Chinese man in order to steal his map but too late learn the meaning of it's enigmatic symbols and the dead man's grin.
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