Black Hand Inn is the eighth studio album by German heavy metal band Running Wild, released on 24 March 1994 through Noise Records.
It is a loose concept album about a resurrected man, against a backdrop of piracy, foreseeing Armageddon.
The album's story starts with "The Curse", in which a man by the name of John Xenir (played by Rolf Kasparek) has been condemned to death for using forbidden powers and is burned at the stake to save his soul.
In the title track, John is alive and creates his own inn in a grove with the sign of a black hand on the front door.
However, John is unfazed and tells the man that long ago he was burned away and that the priest is really the evil one.