Candle Cove:

Candle Cove was an American experimental puppet TV-show, aimed at children. It was originally going to be called "Pirate Place".

Locally produced in Ironton, Ohio, the show advertised itself as modestly trying to handle avantgarde educational contents through new techniques, both visual, artistic, and technical.

It apparently was loosely based on a short story called "The Nickerbocker's Tale" from 1767.

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"The Skin-Taker"
The Skin-Taker is a skeleton marionette, and an inhabitant of the Abyssal Kingdom, who was summoned to Candle Cove by Horace Horrible. He is known to roam around candle-lit caves and seashores. He is a skeleton with glass eyes, which are too big for his sockets. He wears a tophat and cape made from his victim's skin. Most noticeably, he has a jaw which can only move side to side. He mentions that his jaw moves this way to grind skin. He does not seem to acknowledge skinning his victims as cruel or evil. He actually seems to think he's doing them a favour. The Skin-Taker believes being dead is a different version of being alive, as he speaks of the dead as if they were still alive. As a matter of fact, he rarely has any sympathy for the living, but plenty for the dead.