THE COAT CLOSET IN THE FOYER (AN EXCERPT)

What an adventure,

Exploring every nook and cranny of your new home.

If you are truly the adventurous type,

You will discover secrets left behind by former resident. 

For Amber Tenant,

Her descent into her horror adventure began when she explored...

The Coat Closet In The Foyer!

VSM

THE COAT CLOSET IN THE FOYER  (AN EXCERPT)

... Amber has lived in this house on this street in this cul-de-sac for three months.

She loves this house and the much wanted freedom it has given to her single life.

But she could have never expected to eventually discover the outrageously bizarre shock in the coat closet.

 Things placed inside the closet vanish when the door is closed... and she has decided to step inside and close the door behind her!...

VSM

THE REEDUCATION OF BART LENNON

The future is unknown to all men.

But there are a few things that are sure to be here when it arrives...

Death, taxes and religion.

A religion example is the case of...

The Reeducation Of Bart Lennon!

AAS

THE REEDUCATION OF BART LENNON

Bart Lennon screamed at the top of his lungs as he was violently dragged away from the protest.

"Never let anyone take away your belief in what you know is the truth," He told the gathered crowd.

These are the protesters of the new "Right To Religion" law that the governor just passed in their state.

Bert Lennon doesn't know it, but... he will be one of the first prisoners for state forced religious reeducation!

AAS

IN THE COMPANY OF DOGS (AN EXCERPT)

Even the most feral of beasts will seek out companionship,

If only for a momentary mating.

Monsters with the mind of a human need more.

They often find it... In The Company Of Dogs!

RLJ

IN THE COMPANY OF DOGS  (AN EXCERPT)

... In this journal of mine, I must constantly remind myself of the fact that I lead a lonely existence!

Often times, these words that I write on these pages are my only friends for over a hundred years.

The loneliness becomes overtly depressive when I lament my curse that fills my grief!

I miss the company of dogs... even though they hate me because they can smell the evil inside me!...

JJM 

A FRIEND IN THE DARKNESS

A lonely little girl has a best friend that her parents would never approve of.

They would never understand why she would want to be friends with someone like that.

For now, her friend is... A Friend In The Darkness.

DDM

A FRIEND IN THE DARKNESS

Ten year old Suzy was fast asleep in her bedroom on that dark, warm and dreary Halloween night.

She was awakened by the swoosh of something large and dark entering through the window.

It landed with a plump thud at the foot of the bed... rocking it for a moment and making her bounce.

She gazed into the blood red eyes staring at her from the darkness... then smiled because her secret friend had returned from feeding!

DDM

WHAT IS THE PUNCHLINE

Six humans walked into a bar and sat down at a circular table.

They were each of different racial ethnicities.

Each of them placed a .38 special on the table directly in front their position.

Each of these men know nothing of each other... they just met outside the bar.

On cue, each of them pick up their pistols and point it at the person opposite himself.

What Is The Punchline?

RLJ

WHAT IS THE PUNCHLINE

It is a fantasy of world wide proportions... that human beings can get along together.

And if you believe in biblical fantasy, one of the first brothers on earth killed the other.

Men argue and men fight and men war and men kill each other... over those biblical notions.

Somewhere, sometime, men are the brunt of a silly twisted cosmic joke... and the punchline will be horrible, indeed!

RLJ

REAL FANS NEVER DIE

What does an undead, flesh eating ghoul do in his spare time?

This one knows one thing for sure... Real Fans Never Die.

SAS

REAL FANS NEVER DIE

Albert Sully is convinced that he is the biggest fan of the X-Files, dead or alive!

When he heard the recent great news that Fox TV was bringing back the X-Files...

Well, he was filled with the kind of electricity in his spine he had not felt since he died in August 2001!

"I love Scully so much I could eat her," he mumbled between bites off the human femur!

SAS

EXPECTATIONS

When a lady meets a man she likes and goes on that first date...

What should her assumptions be about just who this man is?

Will he meet her... Expectations?

JBZ

EXPECTATIONS

Well, you blew it again... didn't you, Sam... with your warped expectations!

As usual, the final outcome of your interaction with the lady went as expected!

The hottest of the hot chicks always come to you like a butterfly to an orchid!

But, you then ruin your own mojo by announcing the fact that you are a "former" serial killer!

JBZ

THE FRIENDLY SKIES

Today is not a good day to watch your news program.

The air up there lost a lot of people today.

It is just so sad when when bitterness taints... The Friendly Skies.

RLJ

THE FRIENDLY SKIES

Today's modern maxi-society is a global affair requiring people to travel, daily, from country to country.

Day by day, there are so many flights across the skies flirting with potential disaster at any moment.

700,000 pounds of metal and plastic and humans propelled from point A to point B... every day.

Even in a horror world where bad things happen all the time... thank your deity that air flight is a remarkably safe endeavor.

RLJ

THE MEANING OF LIFE

The next blasphemous act of mass death in the name of delusion,

In the name of a planet wide psychos,

Cements this horror writer's epiphany eureka moment...

My Paul A. Mendocino moment...

The second I discovered -- 

The Meaning Of Life!

PAM

THE MEANING OF LIFE

The meaning of life is all about men's domination of life itself, right now.

It is about men dominating other men... men dominating women... men dominating children!

It is about men dominating the planet... men dominating the machines... men dominating thought!

It is about men destroying, in horrific fashion, all that said men cannot dominate -- the meaning of life!

PAM

DEEP DOWN SOUTH WHERE THE FRIGHTENED DIE

It has always been this way in this part of the USA.

In the deep south, things work on fear and respect.

And, if you don't fear and respect the proper people,

You will be forced to face the fact that you are in the...

Deep Down South Where The Frightened Die!

WDD

DEEP DOWN SOUTH WHERE THE FRIGHTENED DIE

(Claiborne County, Miss.)

How long have these red neck bastard assassins been hunting innocent humans in these back woods?

Why am I asking myself this stupid question, even as they have been chasing me for a week now?

They've herded me to the end of this thicket valley... where the bones of former victims lie uncovered.

They'll be here soon, but they don't know that I've already turned human bones into sharp weapons!

WDD

STRANDED

The ability of human survival is a remarkable caveat to existence.

Imagine what a young human must endure to survive if she is... Stranded!

TAH

STRANDED

Like so many Typhoons before it, Nabi blew across Japan like sandpaper across rust.

And when it exited the land, it scraped away much of what man has built... and what woman birthed.

Asami was eight years old when the storm waters swept her out to sea... stranding her alone.

Today, she is still alone on her island... comforted by her resolve... already conquering the nightmares! 

TAH

WHAT SAYS THE CLOWN

When little Billy or little Sally Sue are talking to their toys...

Ever think about what the child is actually hearing?

Imagine... What Says The Clown?

SAN

WHAT SAYS THE CLOWN

Zigzag the Clown has sat on Marsha's bedroom bookcase for 12 of her 16 years of life.

Her dad obtained the toddler sized wooden clown doll for her during a business trip to Japan.

Her dad did not speak Japanese... so the name of the doll, "Ayakashi", sounded generic to him.

But, Marsha knows what "Ayakashi" is... and the things she hears from the clown are getting rather scary!

SAN 

A BLOOD RED SKY (AN EXCERPT)

Like any red blooded American male,

I love to meet a lean, thin woman of my dreams.

You know,

The kind that makes your spine shiver...

The kind that makes you see A Blood Red Sky!

CVD

A BLOOD RED SKY  (AN EXCERPT)

... The moon and the stars above shown bright in the blackest night!

They provided the light I needed to see the food I consume to survive!

I am always on a hunt-quest for the prey with the perfect blood type to fulfill my need!

I find it occasionally... in supple lean female veins... making my eyes roll up to see a blood red sky!...

CVD

JUST ANOTHER POST APOCALYPSE TALE OF HORROR

The nuclear bombs fell across the USA that fateful week, so many years ago.

In this now radiation wrecked world, only the hardy survive.

Survival can sometimes take an abrupt nasty turn for the worst.

The irony of the situation becomes... Just Another Post Apocalypse Tale Of Horror.

ALS

JUST ANOTHER POST APOCALYPSE TALE OF HORROR

The day my life entered the true horror zone was the day I broke my prescription eyeglasses.

I was stupid... I tripped over my own two clumsy feet, face planted on the floor and shattered both lens.

I immediately thought of that Twilight Zone episode when Burgess Meredith entered that horror zone.

But unlike him, I cannot see the feral dogs barking and running toward me... food... in this new horror world.

ALS

THE ANT WAR ON HORROR HILL

War... what would the planet earth be like without it?

The results between humans are devastatingly obvious.

But what happens when humans battle insects?

One extreme example is right there in The Ant War On Horror Hill.

RLJ

THE ANT WAR ON HORROR HILL

Oh yea, you better believe it people... the South is at war and it isn't with people from the North!

The war is with a terrifying horror spreading across the southern states, and its name is... Fire Ant!

For decades, all appeared to be lost as the painfully dangerous creatures mowed down all in its path.

But, today, the war takes a drastic turn for humans in the form of the Phorid Fly... let the real horror begin!

RLJ

TODAY A DREAM COMES TRUE

Mary has dreamed of revenge for those who have made her to suffer through her life.

A visitor from the nightmare realm of the Horrorwalker World has come calling to her.

It told her...

Today A Dream Comes True!

JAZ

TODAY A DREAM COMES TRUE

Thirteen year old Mary Sample, insulated in her bedroom, was war weary at such a young age in her life!

From the age of six years old until now, she has been mercilessly bullied and tortured because of her weight!

Today, she has the noose around her neck... and has just kicked over the chair... before IT appeared before her!

"Do you want revenge?" It asked of her as it gently let her down off the noose -- staring into her wanting eyes!

JAZ

THE HOMICIDAL DEAD (9)

Animals react differently to whatever it is that makes the human dead undead.
Upon infection, it makes them very sick for a couple of days...
Before driving them mad for a few more days.
They then quickly die in a foaming fit if horror.
Have I found companionship for my lonely days?
Or, have I found bitter disappointment.
I'll know in a few days.

JAC

THE HOMICIDAL DEAD (9)

Out on food patrol, three days ago, I heard a very familiar whimpering sound behind a trash bin.

I removed the dirty items concealing the baby creatures, and there they were...  two young puppies.

They came to me like two children... and I took them in... and I fed them and cleaned them.
I don't want to kill these dogs... if they can stay alive a few more days... I don't want to kill them.

JAC

AS THE SNOW MELTS

Secrets, horrors, crimes and things --

These are the stuff of nightmares that are revealed...

As The Snow Melts!

RLJ

AS THE SNOW MELTS

The long harsh winter is finally beginning to recede back to the northern lands from which it came.

  The unprecedented amounts of snow it left in its wake buried a region of the country in frozen horror.

With this kind of nature's fury smashing what man has built... what mysteries lie beneath the melting snow?

Hold your breath, all... nature has a way of reminding people of just how precarious their hold on life is.  

RLJ

THE SPIRITS NEVER LEFT THEIR LAND BEHIND

Ancient Native American spirits roam North America in a state of forever flux.

These spirits have never heard of the word limbo...

But, they occupy an unseen mystical realm between the solid and the nothing.

They desire to end this tortured existence...

To move on into the nothingness or become solid again in death.

All of them suffered humiliation in their original deaths through the American centuries.

They all suffer because... The Spirits Never Left Their Land Behind!

ADB

THE SPIRITS NEVER LEFT THEIR LAND BEHIND

Amber Dancing Bear is, what she now knows of herself to be, a psychic who channels ancient spirits.

As a child, she was tormented by the visions, the spirits, the ghosts and the whisperers of the darkness.

It was the ancient chanting that always heralded their impending presence that was the most unnerving.

These restless spirits of the dead, violated by white men of history, tell her now that she is an adult... they want revenge!

ADB

THE EAGLE CONSUMED THE COWBOY

Holy shit!

All the demons in hell roared!

All the angels in heaven cried!

All the gods of sports just choked on a fish bone!

The Eagle Consumed The Cowboy!

RLJ

THE EAGLE CONSUMED THE COWBOY

It was a waking nightmare that consumed every neuron in the brain of Ronald Jones!

He closed his eyes on the night the nightmare began... to not open them until is was over.

The rumors were shouted loud and clear and true by the evil ones who cast an avian silhouette.

The nightmare is a soul sucking reality -- Demarco Murray is now a freaking Philadelphia Eagle!

RLJ

FRACTURED

A young warrior has been picked by the elder of village Gornham.

He is young and inexperienced at combating the evil forces threatening the village.

But, he has the Mark Of The Wolf in the palm of his hand...

That makes him something frightening, fascinating and formidable.

In thirty two moons, the young warrior will convert on his 18th birthday.

Before he turns into a werebeast,

He must travel deep into an evil forest to confront the master of evil inside.

He must be victorious or he will never return home as a man.

He will return... Fractured!

LAM

(Don't forget to click on the title of the tale below to go to the true tale)

FRACTURED

(AN EXCERPT FROM THE HORROR)

... There once lived an evil old man who resided on an island in the middle of Dark Sunset Lake!

This ancient moribund lake was hidden deep inside the frightening, feral Black Woods Forest!

Werewolves, ghosts, giant spiders and other monster creatures of darkness roamed the forest!

Warned, to all who enter the forest, even some of the trees will grab you to rip you limb from limb...!

LAM

SLIP SLIDING AWAY

... Ageing is, painfully, not pretty...!

ZAL

SLIP SLIDING AWAY

... Just passed right through my long in coming 56th birthday!

... Just passed through another long, lingering, bad news day!

... Just felt another knee bone creak as I took another step!

... Just looked into the face of death staring back at me in my bathroom mirror... again!

ZAL

WHERE ARE THOSE GODS NOW

These three thieves chose the wrong house to home invade tonight!

SML

WHERE ARE THOSE GODS NOW

(Hamar, Norway)

The old blind man could actually "see" much better than the thieves thought he could.

There were three of them who broke into his sparse home to rob him and terrorize him for fun.

They did not know that old man Hodur was actually something modern mortal men have long forgotten.

Tonight, as Hodur froze his fists ice cube hard, he was going to teach these ignorant mortals true terror!

SML

(A BIT OF NON-FICTION) -- A LITTLE CLARITY ABOUT THIS BLOG

(A BIT OF NON-FICTION) -- A LITTLE CLARITY ABOUT THIS BLOG 

Hey, dear readers...

Because of a response I received about one of my most recent tales on this blog -- THE FOURTH LINE OF HORROR --, I believe that some of you might be misinterpreting the way this blog works. If so, I apologize for not being clear on how I mean for this information to be disseminated.

The ironic blurb you read when I send out my tale every day is an introduction to the main story. If you click on the TITLE of the story, you will be transported to the actual blog... where the actual “The Forth Line Of Horror” tale is.

The horror is right there awaiting your arrival.

The context of the ironic blub you read when you first allow me to show you what I write might not make sense to you on its own... but, if you read that blurb and then click on the title to the horror story, you will have full horror context and you might be shocked by what I am actually sending to you every day.

For those of you who read my horror every week, I shout, “THANK YOU VERY MUCH!”

For those of you whom have been confused by my folly, I hope I have given to you context and clarity.

Take care... and now, the countdown to the debut of the new season of Bates Motel at 9:00 PM!

Oh yeah!

RLJ

DOGS FROM THE WOODS

When you are walking home alone through the pathway, out back...
You better be aware of Dogs From The Woods.

SAV

DOGS FROM THE WOODS

Peter Valentine saw the first feral dog approaching him from out of the corner of his left eye.

On the other side, another mangy dog was slowly walking toward him with its head held low.

Instinctively, he shot a glance over his left shoulder... and there, the third dog was approaching, too.

The foam on mouths was more alarming... good thing he still had his baseball practice bat in his hand!

SAV

EXCERPT FROM: THE HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD

A majority of the most devastating of mankind's history of self-made atrocities can be traced back to that one horrible moment.

Is this the one when mankind destroyed itself?

MNH

EXCERPT FROM: THE HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD

...In the year 2035, 16 years ago, ISIS finally got its hands on Pakistan's nuclear weaponry.

Masuud Hammed, the latest leader of the Pakistani terror state,  gave the order to bomb the region.

32 Babur Cruse Missiles rained down upon the border countries... irradiating everything left standing. 

It is the will of the Deity, Hammed proclaimed on state TV, from his hospital bed... even he dying from the radiation poisoning!...

MNH

THE HUMANS ON THE PLANET CALLED EARTH DID WHAT

This is ARGON CLASS SHIP 44R REPORTING...
We are about to descend into the atmosphere of the target planet.
As is known, the radiation in the atmosphere is so thick that it will block our transmission.
As soon as we have concluded witnessing the absurdity on the surface,
We will send the PING signal to let you know we are on our way back home.
Over!

ZZM

THE HUMANS ON THE PLANET CALLED EARTH DID WHAT

This race of aliens traveled from their solar system into the heart of the Milky Way system.

The six Travelnauts were navigating their way through open space toward the planet called Earth.

The rumor throughout the galaxy was that creatures called humans actually destroyed their own planet!

They had to see it for themselves... destroyed their planet with them still on it...in the name of religion... to gods that do not exist?

ZZM

SLY SMILES WITH OFFERED FOOD

(#272)

Trust the Russian police... at your own peril!

AMZ

SLY SMILES WITH OFFERED FOOD

Three Russian police officers sat opposite the frightened young woman. 

They glared at her with intimidation from on the other side of the large metal table.

She knows they are former KGB... and they want information about her boyfriend's politics.

Anna kept playing the mantra her mother thought her... "Never, eat or drink, KGB food!"

AMZ

WINTER SUCKS

Mountains of dirty snow from off the streets!

Busted pipes and broken heaters systems!

Abandoned cars everywhere!

Cold feet and colder heart... and an assorted other stuff!

Just face it... Winter Sucks!

HHM

WINTER SUCKS

Mandy took a third sick day today because this flu bug is kicking her butt something fierce.

Her TV obsession is the weather channel... and today the anchors are working overtime.

They are describing still another monstrous snow storm barreling toward her town tonight.

"Oh my god in heaven," She whispered into her pillow... "what a horror this never ending winter is!"

HHM

WHAT SMELLS THE BLOOD IN THE WATER

Is it a smart thing to stand in the ocean water,

On the shoreline with your back to the ocean,

When you are bleeding into it?

RLJ

WHAT SMELLS THE BLOOD IN THE WATER

That omnibus gray fin... in the salt water... that one over there... about 70 feet behind Arron Pope!

He is not paying attention to what is swimming behind him... in the Atlantic ocean filled with predators!

He is absentmindedly cleaning the bleeding seashell cut on his left foot, right there on the shore edge!

Watch the horror unfold as his blood cells stream straight into the nostrils of that Bull Shark!

WSS

BENDING THE RIVER STYX

Everywhere Damian Elliot looks he sees desert and death.

"That way,"

He whispers to himself,

As he imagined himself... Bending The River Styx!

RLJ

BENDING THE RIVER STYX

War is hell... and hell is war!

The RPG slammed straight into the front end of the MRAP vehicle sending it to hell.

Shrapnel and hellish force made a blast of an effort to send the occupants to hell.

This time they escaped the journey down the river Styx... though, the river surrounds them!

DDE

THE HOMICIDAL DEAD (8)

They look like statues sculpted where they stand on the streets, in mid-step.

But they are not statues!

They are the frozen undead!

They are profoundly affected by this prolonged Arctic blast winter.

They are dead...

But they aren't...

But, they are still hateful evil...

You can see it in their eyes!

I'll just call them... Zombicicles, for now!

JAC

ZOMBICICLES

What is more perverse in nature than the walking dead... frozen zombies stopped cold by winter!

I kill as many as I can... they stare at me where they stand, with frozen eyes in frozen heads.

I am doing what I can to clear this area of the murderous undead while the winter's brutality freezes all.

But, Spring will return soon... and the madness of my singular existence with warmed undead begins anew! 

JAC