THE LAST TRICK OR TREATER

An unseasonably warm Halloween makes for a great night for the kids.

They are out in full force tonight for all the sugar they can get.

And when the last child is done for the night,

Then comes the time for serious observers to go on the hunt.

They are hungry,

And not for candy,

They are... The Last Trick Or Treaters!

SLL

THE LAST TRICK OR TREATER

(Sterling, Virginia)

Cassy Marks has closed her front door because the last child rang her doorbell twenty minutes ago.

Tonight, the kids ranged in age between obvious teenagers to a few toddlers in their dad's arms.

Now that she has appeased the children, and their parents, it is time for her to "get her Halloween on."

It is now her time to walk the dark street as the last trick or treater... not out for candy, but out for her special Halloween blood meal!

SLL

WHO IS THAT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCREEN

Confession... your statement should remain a hidden fact.

But, if what you have done is so horrid that God abandons you?

Then, before you confess your sins you might want to know just...

Who Is That On The Other Side Of The Screen?

CMP

WHO IS THAT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCREEN

(Raleigh, North Carolina)

So, you've come here today to ask God for forgiveness for what you did last night?

You do realize that there really isn't a higher deity who will actually save your soul, right?

You might as well go ahead and give your life right now... you'll never see the light up there so bright!

Take this gun, walk into the back alley and with one trigger pull, like you've do to so many others, take away your own light!

CMP

WINTER WINDS

The cold weather outside comes with the winter.

Also, comes the isolation of wintry day and nights.

The sounds of the winter brings in the strangeness.

And that strangeness can reside just outside your doors.

What else blows in with the... Winter Winds?

WAW

WINTER WINDS

(Bangor, Maine)

When the colorful leaves fall off the trees and the chill scratches at the walls of your domicile,

Ah... the surprisingly shocking things the winter winds can blow into your now messy yard!

Things and stuff magically seems to appear at your front yard... things that hide under the leaves.

And they knock on your door at night... reminding you they are out there... reminding you that you must go outside sometime this winter!

WAW

LOADED

Bad things can happen to a drunk man walking the dark streets at the midnight hour.

Something horrific happened to Holt Jones because he was...

Loaded!

DLL

LOADED

(Wichita Falls, Texas)

Drunk again off some strong fermented spirit, Holt Jones is staggering down the street almost blind!

It is no wonder he was attacked by an unknown assailant... ripped apart like so much bloody tissue paper!

Monsters of the dark shadows always look for stupid humans who serve themselves up, like a warm steak.

Even insects like a little alcohol now and then... so then do the monsters who love their human flesh with just a little internal Vodka marinade!

DLL

THE LOGIC GUILD (AN EXCERPT)

I am 'Scrivener' Clarice Lorenzo.
I am a scribe to the secretive organization known as The Logic Guild.
What we do has been kept as a secret for three hundred years... until now.
The time has come for the world to know we exist.
Follow the lead of my words for your introduction to...
The Logic Guild!

SCL

THE LOGIC GUILD   (AN EXCERPT)

(Washington, DC)



The twenty female members of The Logic Guild are embedded into the society of five American cities!
They openly walk among the unknowing denizens of four east coast cities and one west coast city!
The Logic Guild is tasked with protecting the public from the illogical monsters walking among them!
Today, rookie member Sally Jenkins steps forth to prove her worth by killing the werewolf stalking Washington, DC... good luck, madame!

SCL

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE NEED FOR BLOOD (AN EXCERPT)

Sally Markum first thought her abductor was a pervert.

But when he showed her his fangs,

She realized the trouble she was in was all...

In The Spirit Of The Need For Blood!

RLJ

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE NEED FOR BLOOD  (AN EXCERPT)

(Ransom, West Virginia)

Don't you cry, my dear... the pain you will soon experience will be exquisite and brief!

Yes, now you're in the spirit... slowly remove that blouse and look into my eyes!

Your neck pulses with the electrolyte electricity that blood through artery creates!

You might hate me now, it's human nature, but, in a few days, you and I will willingly drink the blood of humans together!

ZRM

THEY ARE FIGHTING UNDER MY BED AGAIN (AN EXCERPT)

The Whisperers are disagreeing again.

And as a result, I am going to hate life in the morning.

My life is hell when...

They Are Fighting Under My Bed Again!

DDP

THEY ARE FIGHTING UNDER MY BED AGAIN  (AN EXCERPT)

(Kansas City, Missouri)

My heavy queen sized bed and headboard is shaking and rocking, again, at this... the midnight hour!

Obviously, the monsters that live there get along most of the time... when I only hear them whispering.

But ever so often they disagree, about what, the devil only knows... and those night are sleepless ones!

At least they haven't taken their issues out into this world... but if they do, what will they do when they see me for the first time?

DDP

THE WIND DRIVES THE REBELLION

Ah, if planet earth could talk...

Would it chastise the humans pillaging its skin with the warning,

The Wind Drives The Rebellion!

RLJ

THE WIND DRIVES THE REBELLION

(Killeen, Texas)

When I was a young man, 6 decades ago, I was proud to be in tune with the nature of the earth!

I remember the old people back then declaring that bad weather was nature's way of cleansing the world!

Today, we want perfectly calm air... even though we abuse our living planet like we have no respect for it!

A hurricane with 200 MPH winds slams Mexico today... has earth's rebellion against us just turned into hatred?

RLJ

TASTY CHICKEN FINGERS

    

The inside joke is this...

Delicious "Chicken Fingers" are not really chicken fingers.

Ah, but in my favorite restaurant,

When they cook me the food I love the most,

It is always the same... Tasty "Chicken Fingers!"

PPL

TASTY CHICKEN FINGERS

(Fargo, North Dakota)

Oh, I love my favorite restaurant... the one at the darkest far corner of a most secret location in the city!

The speciality dish is the most delicious "Chicken Fingers"... with the "Brown Skin Chips" and the water!

What makes the "Chicken Fingers" so scrumptious is the freshness, and the tender care given to them!

I peeked into the kitchen once and I saw the chef separating hands from freshly harvested arms... ah, freshness, indeed!

PPL

SUN BLASTED

Someone has played a very cruel joke on Al Omero!

Whoever it was knew very personal information about him!

Like, for example, that he is a vampire!

And what they did to Al is soon to leave him... Sun Blasted!

RLJ

SUN BLASTED

(Somewhere in the Sonoran Desert)

It is scorching hot out here in this desert!

The sun is very high, the breeze is very dry and air is hell hot!

The shadows have almost retreated from my hiding place behind this boulder!

Someone placed me and my busted coffin out here, and the sun encroaches... which will soon leave me Sun Blasted!

ALO

PROJECT STARFISH (AN EXCERPT)

William Newsom is rivited to CNN on his television screen in his apartment.

The fate of the world as he knows it is being displayed on the flatscreen.

Wolf just give the world some great news...

Followed by some dire news, indeed.

To think, 

The fate of this world is in the proverbial hands of something called...

Project Starfish!

WWN

PROJECT STARFISH  (AN EXCERPT)

(Miami, Florida)

There is a  frighteningly large asteroid streaking through space on a direct collision course with earth!

Six months have passed with an earth population frightened to tears... are we all about to die?

The only hope for mankind is 'Project Starfish'... a special nuclear missile fired off by the USA and China!

CNN just reported the collision of missile and asteroid, and the explosions... now, who among us all will survive the fallout METEOROIDS!

WWN

MY GHOST LOVES ME TOO MUCH

Fifteen year old Sarah Jay has lived in the Maxtell Orphanage for six years.
A community destroying tragedy brought her here to live.
Everybody in the orphanage is outright afraid of her because,
As Sarah says,
"My Ghost Loves Me Too Much!"

RLJ

MY GHOST LOVES ME TOO MUCH

(Petersburg, Virginia)

When I was a younger lass, my parents, Elder Bowen and other members of the church thought I was possessed by the devil!

They performed an exorcism on me one night and that turned out to be a real waste of God's time!

All they did was piss-off eldritch energy from beyond anything any of us can ever hope to understand.

And now... they are all still dead, I am still in this orphanage and the ghost they actually grounded to me is still my murderous guardian spirit!

SNJ

LIFE AS TOLD TO ME BY THE DRUG COMPANY COMMERCIALS

The hubris of the ownership of the drug companies of the world borders on pathological!
 They actually appear to control many of our lives through the televisions in our homes.
And when they begin to control our sex lives...
Holy crap, the horror, the horror...
Then our existence becomes:
Life As Told To Me By The Drug Company Commercial!

PMY

LIFE AS TOLD TO ME BY THE DRUG COMPANY COMMERCIALS

(Herndon, Virginia)

According to the commercials, like the ones about Viagra, I have to ask my MD if my 49 year old heart is strong enough for sex!

Are you kidding me... if my heart explodes during sex, that means god just told me it's time to "Check out of life, you sorry bastard!"

What goddamn nerve these pharmacology companies have in frightening me into believing that a woman will kill me if she sleeps with me!
I mean, goddamn it... why not just tell me that I have to choke on your pills before I yell at my TV as I obsess over tonight's NFL heart stopper!

PMY

THE WHISPERERS CONTINUE TO WHISPER

The Whisperers still whisper their derision for their current state of being.

They are angry and sometimes they take it out on me by bugging me too much.

Like, for example, tonight...

The Whisperers Continue To Whisper!

SEL

THE WHISPERERS CONTINUE TO WHISPER

(Floris, Virginia)

Oh my god, what in the hell am I going to do to get some sleep around here?

It's now 3:22 a.m. and the Whisperers in the attic are still going on and on and on for another night!

I have always hear their haunting hushed banter... as they lament their desire to be down here with me!

What the hell do I know to do for them to get to this side of reality... I just want some goddamn sleep!

SEL

IF IT WERE NOT FOR MY DOG

In a horror world cataclysm where a living hell owns the earth,

Man's best friend IS a dog!

Don't believe me...

Ask Daisy!

If It Were Not For My Dog...

ZWM

IF IT WERE NOT FOR MY DOG

(Vancouver, Canada)

If it were not for my dog, I would be fodder for the monsters out there in the woods.

If it were not for my dog, I would never know when the creatures decide to assault my shelter.

If it were not for my dog, I would have already taken my own life rather than become food for them.

If it were not for my dog, I would not be guaranteed at least six more years of life... as Daisy lives, so do I!

ZWM

BLEEDING FOR YOU (AN EXCERPT)

In case you forgot,

As you read this missive again,

I was... Bleeding For You!

RLJ

BLEEDING FOR YOU  (AN EXCERPT)

(Rugby, North Dakota)  

...I left the scene of the frightful murders of my friends not very long ago. The front door of the café was locked shut… actually jammed shut with the locking mechanism that had been crushed shut. I had to climb out the restroom window, into the nighttime darkened alley, to escape the carnage. I’m back home at my apartment now and I’m sitting in the darkness of my bedroom, cowering and shaking in the corner like a wet frightened animal!...

RLJ

I WAS A PURPLE MAN TODAY

Even in a world of horror,

Civility must rule...

Or anarchy and chaos will take over!

I vote for civility,

For... I Was A Purple Man Today!

RLJ

I WAS A PURPLE MAN TODAY

(Herndon, Virginia)

Be it 8 teenagers, or 80 teenagers, committing suicide because of bullying... any number is too much!

The human animal is a horrid beast that oft times lives to torture and bully anyone perceived to be weak!

But, among the horrible assholes lurks the avengers who protect the innocent by any means possible!

Today, the protection comes in the form of a color blitz... tomorrow, perhaps, a BULLY might be the one to go home crying!

RLJ

I WANT MY PAPA

Twelve year old Cynthia is staring out her bedroom window.

She is looking for any movement out among the trees.

She knows that something she wants,

 More than anything else in the world,

Might be out there in the darkness and the dark shadows.

All she knows it this... "I Want My Papa!"

RLJ

I WANT MY PAPA

(Ruston, Louisiana)

Mommy told me, just a few weeks ago, that my papa died of a heart attack down in Houma.

That is all she told me... but, I do not understand why his heart attacked him and killed him.

All momma now does is work all day, cry all evening and pray to the Loa down in Houma at night.

I have seen the scary things that happen when momma prays... very scary things... but, like her, I want my papa!

COM

ONE ZOMBIE ALIVE (AN EXCERPT)

I think my name is Allen Lowe.

And it is true that I recently died from lung cancer.

And I also was recently buried.

And now I have returned to the real work as...

One Zombie Alive!

AWL

ONE ZOMBIE ALIVE  (AN EXCERPT)

I awoke to abject silence!

The absence of sound felt like a scream from every neuron inside my confused brain!

In this silence, was sound... and that noise was inside my rattled imagination!

I also awoke to profound darkness... and that realization began to set my panic!

AWL

I SEE MY DOCTOR AT NIGHT

My Name is Sylar LeBell.

I have a chronic illness that needs medical maintenance.

My doctor and I are so close that we might as well be having an affair.

She gives me the care I need to exist...

I give her something she needs.

These are a couple of the reasons why... I See My Doctor At Night!

SLL

I SEE MY DOCTOR AT NIGHT

(Harrisonburg, Virginia)

Tonight is my next doctor's appointment... and I'll be seeing the amazing Dr. Cantori, as usual!

I live to see her once a month because she is the only one who can draw blood from my tiny veins!

Our relationship is based on trust... for the sublime things she does to me when I visit her private practice!

She cares for my Crohn's Disease... I let her bite my neck for a good meal... ah, the caveats of having a vampire doctor!

SLL

THE HOMICIDAL DEAD (18)

The dead walk the earth as homicidal cannibals who eat the living!

The living have mostly been murdered and consumed.

I, Jason Allen Cranston, am alive.

My mission in life,

Before I am eventually cornered and bitten,

Is to find somebody else alive... anybody!

JAC


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I am discovering that Richmond, Virginia is a huge city.
There are thousands upon thousands of houses and other buildings to explore.
And, there are so many African American zombies here for me to dodge and kill.
At least I now know I am not the only black person walking the streets of the dead.
Perverse of me to say... sure... but I need irony to keep me mentally sharp, too.
And now... more attacks on The Homicidal Dead!

JAC

THE HOMICIDAL DEAD  (18)


Well OK, journal of mine... it's now time to wipe some of the gore and puss off my hands so I can write in you.
I am now on the other side of the Nickle Bridge and my hands are still shaking from the spent energy.
God, I love killing zombies... because I can only more forward in my life if I mow through their hoards.
Now, I have a whole new area of Richmond to explore and discover... and more undead to kill for me to live!

JAC

WHO GOES FIRST

A whole lot of crazy shit has gone on in Henrico County Virginia over the centuries.

Henrico County and Richmond were practically at war for many decades.

One fallout issue was the death of several towns... leaving them ghost towns.

And the ghosts are still there.

Ask the people standing at the door to one structure as they decide...

Who Goes First!

EML

WHO GOES FIRST

(Elko Tract, Virginia)

Robert Bell glared incredulously at the six other people in his adventurers group, before saying...

"You people are goddamn crazy... you aren't sending me, the one black person here, in there!"

The front door to the ominously dark haunted house had just swung open by itself... inviting them into the horror inside!

Robert wasn't going to be sacrificed today, hell no, it's white people who stupidly waltz into horror zones!

EML

THE WILD TIME AT THE ER

When the moon is full...

And the night is dark...

A human transforms into the werewolf!

Does the human just let it happen anywhere...

Or, does the human seek isolation so the beast can run free and feral...

Without having to create hysteria in a populated area.

And when the cursed is careless,

And the result is an unmitigated disaster,

Who is to blame for... The Wild Time At The ER!

AMM

A WILD TIME AT THE ER

(Chicago, Illinois)

There are entrails and body parts and blood all over the walls of this deep inner city ER in the heart of Chicago!

Martha Applebee, once strapped to the gurney, her body broken from crashing her car into the Oak tree...

Was rushing to Lincoln Park, where the full moon transformation would occur in a forest-like area!

Even unconscious, the transformation made her monstrous... healing her... and so many people died that night because of her silly folly!

AMM

BURIED OUT BEHIND THE CHURCH

The secrets of a church...

They are the stuff of nightmares.

Take this little tale as an example of what is...

Buried Out Back Behind The Church!

SUS

BURIED OUT BACK BEHIND THE CHURCH

(Bolivia, North Carolina)

Praise be the devil that created me, I am so much better now that I have dug my way out of that stupid coffin.

They buried me six feet under the decaying dirt in the old decrepit cemetery behind the Pentecostal church.

Strong spirits, they believe, are soaked into the fibre of that church... it is all bullshit, though, like the church itself!

They killed me... but just wait a day or two, I'll show them what real hell fire and brimstone and death looks like!

SUS

A RAVEN TOLD HER SO

Bertha Anderson is shocked again.

She has lost another boyfriend.

She meets them out there... and eventually brings them home.

They meet her daughter Sally Lynn,

And within a few weeks they vanish as though they were never there.

Secretly, Sally Lynn knows where these men have gone to.

She is not telling because... A Raven Told Her So!

RLJ

A RAVEN TOLD HER SO

(Winchester, Virginia)

Nobody talks to me anymore... except for the words that come from the Raven.

When I go outside and look around I can see the Raven perched up above, ready to talk.

I've always been a loner and I don't need people or words or companionship... or my mother and her guns and her dirty men trying to screw me!

The Raven tells me I only need to listen to it... and today I am going to do some very bad things to my mother's latest dirty boyfriend!

SLA

NO REFLECTION TO AFFIRM HER BEAUTY

Patty knows it is not true, that monsters cannot cry.

She is bawling right now,

As she stares at the object on the wall,

A few feet above the large wooden coffin with the open lid.

Her tearless face contorts because there is...

No Reflection To Affirm Her Beauty!

KLK

NO REFLECTION TO AFFIRM HER BEAUTY

(Brooklyn, New York City)

Patty Marcum has been a virtually indestructible member of the blood consuming living undead for ages.

She fears nothing because, really, what much can hurt her... except the sun and a stake pierced heart?

Well, there is one thing she fears... and it is not because she fears it will hurt her... mirrors...

Because of what she is cursed to never see again... for, what could destroy a female vampire more than a supernatural assault on her vanity?

KLK

I SAW HER IN THE DARKNESS (AN EXCERPT)

I, Allen Luthor Kingsman, know full well the ancient lore of this land!

Twilight is the time when the supernatural emerge!

The undead, monsters, creatures and things arise.

And if a human makes eye contact with any of them,

They may imprint on you and follow you home.

I screwed it all up when... I Saw Her In The Darkness!

ALK

I SAW HER IN THE DARKNESS  (AN EXCERPT)

(Arco, Idaho)

I first saw her walking slowly along the dark pebbly embankment about six miles back down the road.

She wore what looked like a black tattered dress, dirty black tennis shoes and no socks on at all.

She looked up at me as I slowly drove by her... and she was dead eyed and zombie-like... and I left her way behind.

I felt her soullessness inside my car... I could almost smell the death on her... and she is now standing outside my house in my front yard!

ALK

THE HOMICIDAL DEAD (17)

The dead walk the earth as homicidal cannibals who eat the living!

The living have mostly been murdered and consumed.

I, Jason Allen Cranston, am alive.

My mission in life,

Before I am eventually cornered and bitten,

Is to find somebody else alive... anybody!

JAC

THE HOMICIDAL DEAD  (17)


I need to cross the raging James River from this south side of the city to get to the north side!
So, I've spent the last week killing 174 zombies with only a hammer... I needed the practice!
I must cross the dead car jammed Nickle Bridge on foot to get over there... a 2030 foot zombie gauntlet!
What will I find on the other side of Richmond... to get there I must fight for it... just killing more zombies to feel alive!

JAC

DRAGON FIRE

In times long, long past...

There be real dragons!

They be horrid, vile, destructive beasts!

Most everybody of the time learned this fact...

You fight dragons with...

Dragon Fire!

DDP

DRAGON FIRE

(The Black Forest, Germany)

The moon and the stars above provided the light I needed to see the sleeping dragon!

I am on a hunt quest to be the first human to steal some dragon breath... and survive!

This is a death sentence, but it must be attempted in order to devise a weapon against it!

The wizard handed me the storage vial, the women all kissed me goodbye and death beckons me to its red hot embrace!

DDP

THE GHOSTING EFFECT (AN EXCERPT)

The glow around the raggedy looking man leaning against the building was very bright!

It was obvious to Petra that he was a tortured soul who has endured many sleepless nights!

He was very haunted, and she decided to engage the monstrosity tearing his life apart!

She walked up to him from behind, placed her right hand on his back and felt the evil in him.

The screams of something like hell songs assaulted her ears,

And the battle for the soul of this stranger was on,

As the horror in him was about to meet Petra Sackhoff and...

The Ghosting Effect!

PTS

THE GHOSTING EFFECT  (AN EXCERPT)

Petra Sackhoff is blessed with the oft times frightening supernatural gift of The Ghosting Effect.

The power manifests as a hazy white glowing aura around people who are haunted by evil spirits.

If Petra focuses her attention on the victim, the ghost will be compelled to reveal itself to her.

In that moment of awareness, all hell can break loose... and Petra's other supernatural abilities manifest to engage the horror!

PTS

THE MOST DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTS OF HORROR

In the hands of the wrong person,

This instrument of horror is as dangerous as death itself!

You ask, what are... The Most Dangerous instruments of death?

RLJ

THE MOST DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTS OF HORROR

(Somewhere along the central coast of Oregon, USA)

King Kong was taken down by the most dangerous instruments of horror -- bullets!

Our most loved President was taken down by the most dangerous instruments of horror -- bullets!

Innocent American citizens are taken down by the most dangerous instruments of horror -- bullets!

These bullets were all discharged by the true ultimate instruments of horror -- GUNS!

RLJ