THE DECONSTRUCTION OF SCROOGE

Ah, the fever nightmare that is A Christmas Carol!

Read it again and again to witness a masterpiece of forever horror!

But, the story was written back then.

What do you get from the story today through modern eyes with...

The Deconstruction Of Scrooge!

RLJ

THE DECONSTRUCTION OF SCROOGE

(Herndon, Virginia)

What does Santa Claus and Ebenezer Scrooge really have to do with each other in the minds of believers?

Is Santa Claus actually referenced in A Christmas Carol... is he really The Ghost of Christmas Present?

Obviously, Scrooge was guilt ridden and had surely partaken in a little too much Laudanum that fateful night!

Christmas can be a real nightmare... guilt and loneliness can make a man psychotic... and horror feels more horrible that day... be it way back then or right now today!

RLJ 

CAKED IN MUD (AN EXCERPT)

Days have passed since Carla Ohn's 3 day ordeal in the Santa Monica mountains!
She still cannot believe that all 110 pounds of her 5'5" frame beat hardcore nature!
Oh, she believed she was going to die several times!
But, as she discovered during the ordeal, all she needed was her wits!
Oh yea, and make sure that your adversary is... Caked In Mud!

CAO

CAKED IN MUD  (AN EXCERPT)

(Santa Monica, California)


The mountain lion looked oh-so-pitiful as it was writhing in pain while trying to keep afloat in the mud hole!
Carla Ohn's 3 day excursion into the depths of hell was now almost over... and she was so happy!
Her evening jog, 3 days ago, morphed into a twisted cat and human terror tale of wilderness survival!
"I won, goddamn it!" She spat those words at the huge cat staring at her with now pitiful eyes... and she was not falling for it... the cat has to die tonight!

CAO

RADIATION BURNS

Sometimes horror is the greatest irony!

And today,

12-19-2018,

Everybody in my oft times insane America looks like me because of...

Radiation Burns!

RLJ

RADIATION BURNS

(Herndon, Virginia)

I remember the days long past when I thought my life was the normal way to live!

Oh, by no means was my life realized in a utopia... this is the USA, for god's sake!

Things could be tough for a man of my color, but... I am a proud American, anyway!

And then they voted HIM into the presidency... and he opened his stupid mouth... and then the bombs fell in my USA... and today, everyone is my color... from the radiation burns!

RLJ

EVEN TREE SPIRITS SUFFER THE COLD (AN EXCERPT)

Sergio Drivas brought Kraneia to America 52 years ago when he was a 6 year old.

She was given to him by his grandfather who insisted that young Sergio take good care of her.

Sergio did just that... and she still occupies the safety of the center of his large backyard garden.

They have had quite a life together and it is too bad that he is aging like the mortal he is.

Anyway, Kraneia is tough and the outdoors existence is her reality.

And on a bitter cold night like tonight... Even Tree Spirits Suffer The Cold!

RLJ

EVEN TREE SPIRITS SUFFER THE COLD  (AN EXCERPT)

(Cascades, Virginia)

"My, oh my!" Exclaimed the ever gloriously beautiful Hamadryad of the backyard garden!

She is shivering inside the comfortable space of the thriving Dogwood tree she is forever bonded to!

Her gardener master wrapped her vigorous Dogwood in thick burlap to ward off the frigid cold of this night!

Polar vortex, she heard her master say... what is a polar vortex, she asks herself... she never felt this kind of horrific cold when she was first rooted in Greece fifty years ago!

RLJ

ALWAYS IN THE HUNT

From one corner of this vast country to another corner,

And everywhere in-between,

I search for those things that go bump in the night that bring you horror!

Tonight, I am in a small town off-the-beaten pathway of the mainstream!

I am here, and as usual, I am... Always In The Hunt!

ALS

ALWAYS IN THE HUNT

(Surry, Maine)

Now I, Allen Sanderson, never wanted to be a poltergeist exterminator!

But when the most destructive of supernatural ghost entities kills your wife... oh, well!

The things I've seen, and the things I've done, makes me hate them even more!

Those noises haunting the halls and rooms of your home might be what I'm after... call me... because, I'm always in the hunt!

ALS

ZOMBIE HUNT

The hunt is on!

The rumors are out there in the public!

Zombies are real and they are biting people!

The cops and the National Guard and the military are flooding the streets!

They are on a... Zombie Hunt!

RLJ

ZOMBIE HUNT

(The Bronx, New York City, New York)

The dead girl was still warm... an estimated six hours later... and that was not the weird thing about her!

Det. Jones and Det. Jon Marks, and the forensic team, were all floored as usual by the zombie scene!

The bite to her left hand was pronounced and angrily red... and the white foam in the wound was ugly!

Both detectives, guns already in their hands, gave each other that knowing look of who would shoot her in the head... as she opened her glazed eyes and bared her foam covered teeth!

ATH

THICK BLOOD (AN EXCERPT)

Samantha Mae has already forgotten that she was attacked three nights ago!

She was grabbed off the jogging trail, dragged into the woods and bitten in her neck!

Three nights later, she has emerged from the bushes feral and hungry for humans as food!

She is now an undead feral stalker of the living, and she craves... Thick Blood!

RLJ

THICK BLOOD  (AN EXCERPT)

(Richmond, Virginia)

...The first time Samantha tasted blood, the pulsing gush of wet iron rushing into her mouth, she almost threw up!

Through the blood red haze of her new feral mindset, the evil hunger kept the blood flowing to her gut!

After she drained her victim, she instinctively snapped his lifeless neck... he would not come back undead!

It was almost sunrise time, now... the sleepiness was overtaking her... her skin was already warming... time to hide in the dark of the day... until the next night!...

AMM

DEEP DOWN SOUTH WHERE THE BLOOD IS ALWAYS WARM

It was a hard life, being a 100 year old vampire in Chicago!

The winters were brutal on an already cold undead body!

And then, one day, the vampire had a eureka thought!

That thought was about... 

Deep Down South Where The Blood Is Always Warm!

RLJ

DEEP DOWN SOUTH WHERE THE BLOOD IS ALWAYS WARM

Miami Beach, Florida)

Angelique really loves the throbbing nightlife in the always warm and hopping Miami Beach area!

The best thing she ever did, 75 years ago, was to move to Florida where her blood is always warm!

If she could actually see her reflection in a mirror she would marvel at her pale, but ever 24 year old, skin!

All it took was one bite to her neck to make her forever young... and all it takes is one nightly bite to a neck to keep her forever young!

ELH

I REMEMBER THE DAY TO REMEMBER

Christmas is soon to come to Travis County!

And somewhere in this vast area, someone will die on that night!

It will be another unsolved bloody axe murder!

And like a shadow ghost, the murderer will vanish again.

He knows who he is... activated when he remembered...

I Remember The Day To Remember!

RLJ

I REMEMBER THE DAY TO REMEMBER

(Austin State Hospital, Austin, Texas)

Allen Lambert, long time patient at this psychiatric facility, just gained a moment of clarity!

Through the mental haze of his psychosis, and the stabilizing drugs, he remembered today!

Today is the day for him to focus his madness on what he must do, again, on Christmas night!

He giggles as he remember his escape plan... still not discovered in 21 years... where he will dig up the axe... bathe in the gore... and be back, again, before the night is done!

ELS

WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT (AN EXCERPT)

We only have one planet earth!

Mankind appears to be hell bent on destroying it!

The time is soon to come when saviors might emerge!

And when they do appear, mankind will be their targets!

They will come soon... When The Time Is Right!

RLJ

WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT  (AN EXCERPT)

(Owens Valley, California)

The stupid humans fight their ignorantly dangerous battles up on the surface of the earth!

Down below the surface, where dark dwellers of the horror lay in wait, another battle stews!

There are creatures and things down in the caves and cracks and the water that have had enough!

The slashing and the burning and the bombing of the earths crust must end... and soon they will emerge to enact vengeance... monster style!

WAM

PERSONALITY TYPES

That man read some insanity igniting drivel on the Internet! 

That man loaded his guns into his car!

He then drove to Washington, D.C.!

He walked into a certain pizza joint looking for trouble!

He shot up the place!

And the police did not kill him... they arrested him!

And now starts the assessment of his... Personality Type!

RLJ

PERSONALITY TYPES

(Washington, DC)

No two people on this planet earth are the same as the other person seen as another!

What makes you a passive wallflower is not what makes another a cocky motherfucker!

And what makes that one a sane sentinel does not make this one a homicidal gun stroking lunatic!

The horror in the story of what makes a certain personality is terrifying in its complexity... made awful when a gun is in certain hands!

RLJ

MADE IN CHINA (AN EXCERPT)

Mattie Jones has lived all of her 12 years among the DC rubble.

She was born days after the first bombs of destruction fell.

She, and her mother, eke out an existence among the DC survivors...

In a relatively leaderless America! 

And every time Mattie's mother thinks about the hell they live in,

She remembers the words on the decal on a piece of bomb shrapnel... 

Made In China!

RLJ

MADE IN CHINA  (AN EXCERPT)

(Washington, DC)

...From way up in the sky, looking up from the ground, the object looked totally innocent.

Was it an airplane, or was it a large bird, or was it a wind swept balloon drifting across the sky?

But, to the crowd of curious watchers, it became obvious that death was actually falling toward them!

The first ICBM from China fell directly onto these Washington, DC residents... destroying them all, along with the most ignorantly racist American President in history!...

RLJ

MONSTERS, ALL

Monsters of horror and terror exist just off the mainstream reality.

They are out there... you just better hope you never meet them.

If you believe one exists, you must believe they all exist.

They are, in fact... Monsters, All!

RLJ

MONSTERS, ALL

(Herndon, Virginia)

So, you say you believe in the existence of God and all the superstition that goes along with it?

You are a dogmatic follower... and you believe God directs everything you do and say!

If god exists, then... werewolves exist and vampires exist and zombies exist and ghosts exist!

I have never seen any living trace of the existence of any of these creatures... monsters, all!

RLJ

THE FINAL THOUGHT OF SALEM SMITH (AN EXCERPT)

My name is Marvin Jones!
I have an American Horror Story to tell you!
It doesn't get more American Horror than right here in Clinton!
Here, a cautionary horror missive, about death and race and perception...
The Final Thoughts Of Salem Smith!

MNJ

THE FINAL THOUGHT OF SALEM SMITH  (AN EXCERPT)

(Clinton, North Carolina)

...I'm looking into the slowly ebbing eyes of Salem Smith as he is dying there on the dirty sidewalk three feet from his car!

Incredibly, he was just shot in the chest with a handgun by a wild eyed man who is licensed to enforce the law!
 Salem, a clairvoyant, always confided in me that his dreams told him that one day he would die by bullet wound!
Salem grabbed my right forearm, looked up into my tear filled bloodshot eyes and said, "See, I told you my dreams would come true!" Yea, Salem... but, death by trigger-happy police officer?"...

MNJ

I LOVE YOU MORE NOW THAT YOU ARE DEAD

...It's funny how one can hate a relative to death when they are alive.
But, when the hated one dies,
Well, the hater can say to himself...
I love You More Now That You Are Dead!

ALM

I LOVE YOU MORE NOW THAT YOU ARE DEAD

(Pleasant Plains, Illinois)


Lance Orman never got along very well with his very irresponsible mother!
Was it her hardcore drinking... or, was it the parade of abusive "boyfriends" that turned Lance angry!
Even though he made several of those "boyfriends" permanently disappear, he would never hurt his mother!
Now that she has died, and he is more free continue to make her boyfriends disappear, he can safely say to her memory...  I Love You More Now That You Are Dead!

ALM

A THANKSGIVING OUT IN THE WOODS

Food, family and football... Thanksgiving!

Family and, or, friends get together to bond!

But if you are of the bloody world of horror,

You spend... A Thanksgiving Out In The Woods!

RLJ

A THANKSGIVING OUT IN THE WOODS

(Bowie, Maryland)

Look over there... out in the feral woods... just like the woods behind your house!

Thanksgiving is happening out there, even though the dark creatures there have no concept of it!

Over there, behind the elderly Oak Tree, a bold werewolf has caught a noisy, huge wild turkey!

While ripping the bird to shreds, a faint holiday thought flashes across the Lancantrope's wild mind... but it is quickly eaten right along with the bloody fowl in its mouth full of Canis teeth!

RLJ

GO BACK TO BED

The noises in Mark's attic are made by entities very bold, indeed!

Exactly who, or what, are they?

Whatever the case, they have no problem telling Mark to...

Go Back To Bed!

RLJ

GO BACK TO BED

(Houston, Texas)

There'll be no sleep for a dog tired Mark Bannon tonight!

The ghosts in his attic are very loud and active tonight!

He has asked them to be quite many times when they go bump too loudly in the night!

And they always tell him to go back to bed... or, would he rather they haunt him directly in his bedroom!

RLJ

THE EDGE OF STUPEFACTION

 Dilbert Alessandro has been pushed over the edge of reality!

Too much TV, too much anger and too much politics!

He has hurt himself today!

He has stepped over... The Edge Of Stupefaction!

RLJ 

THE EDGE OF STUPEFACTION

(Carolina, Puerto Rico)

I cut off my left pinky finger today... to feel some pain through all the numbness cursing me!

It wasn't all that bad... the sharp pain and the squirting blood... and I felt all so alive again!

I've also busted my Television with a hammer... killing one source of the Novocaine feeling!

Tomorrow I might murder a dog... to see if that act trumps the numbness... and then, what's next?

DOA

RUNNING FOR MY LIFE (AN EXCERPT)

 (From the crimson splattered files of: Bloodplasma.blogspot.com)

I'm Aidan Nance and I have a horror tale for you!

My new girlfriend likes to party in exotic circles of strange friends.

She told me the sex with her would be unbelievable, but...

I could only see her at night and I could ask no questions!

But, I found out her real deal!

And electric sex, or no sex, the secrets I discovered now has me...

Running For My Life!

ADN

RUNNING FOR MY LIFE  (AN EXCERPT)

(Shallotte, North Carolina)

Particles of the coal black asphalt beneath the grinding tires of my Mustang taste the warm air!

I'm chewing up the road as I'm speeding down 17 in an effort to escape the predator in my rear!

I'm traveling faster than she can fly, and my saving grace is she doesn't know where I'm going!

Fuck trying to get over the fact that my girlfriend has been turned into a vampire... I'm not letting her bite my neck to drink my goddamn blood!

ADN

THE DEMON AWAITS

Another foolish mortal gets his grubby hands on a conjuring tome!

Another foolish mortal dares to enter the terror unknown!

While attempting to pronounce dead words he does not understand,

He has missed the warnings in the body of the conjuration!

Now he will suffer the consequences of his foolishness as...

The Demon Awaits!

RLJ

THE DEMON AWAITS

(Augusta, Georgia)

...Sammy Starr is sitting inside the center of the 25'x25' pentagram hand drawn on the floor!

He is sitting inside its protective borders because he stupidly conjured a monstrous demon from hell!

It has told him, for 5 days now, that when he leaves the protective pentagram it will eat him alive!

Sammy is now dizzy from thirst and hunger... apparently the demon is not... his refrigerator is just feet away... so to is the "Deamon Rollex" tome... just outside the border of the pentagram... where the demon awaits!...

DSA

THE WRONG APARTMENT

You got the bloody horror you deserved,

Buddy, 

When you broke into...

THE WRONG APARTMENT!

RLJ

THE WRONG APARTMENT

(St. Louis, Missouri)

"Do you know what real horror is?" Asked the man with the knife to Sandy's delicate pale throat?

The assailant had broken into her apartment and was assaulting her on her bed in her dark bedroom!

Only he knows why he picked this particular bedroom in this apartment to attack a woman in her sleep!

If he had done more research and reconnaissance, he would have stayed away from Sandy Burns... she being an always hungry ghoul... who usually sleeps all day... and always accepts a free meal!

RLJ

HOLY HELL, I'M NOT DREAMING

That's right, American normal people, that's what I said...

Holy Hell, I'm Not Dreaming!

RLJ

HOLY HELL, I'M NOT DREAMING

(Herndon, Virginia)

Holy Hell! I'm not dreaming, goddamn it!

I just opened my eyes from a night of sleep and the dark reality is... real!

A racist is now the President of the USA... and his cabinet is full of hate mongers!

 Serious horror meet sober reality.... soon to be in the White House... in Washington, DC... in November 2016... the day America died!

RLJ

BY THE MOONLIGHT OF THE SUPERMOON

What is that late night glow outside your window?

Is there a helicopter up in the dark sky with a spotlight?

No, fellow horror fiend, it is a huge supermoon!

And, tonight it is rare in its oversized glow...

By The Moonlight Of The Supermoon!

RLJ

BY THE MOONLIGHT OF THE SUPERMOON

(Trinidad, Colorado)

Better for you tonight, men and women, that you sit there indoors quietly before your televisions!

The huge supermoon draws out the scary things that lurk deeper still in the shadows of the night!

You sit there humbly and enjoy your NFL and your Basketball and your The Walking Dead!

This special supermoon has bathed all the monsters in super moonlight, making them drunk with feral bloodlust... and very dangerous!

RLJ

THE THING ABOUT NIGHTMARES

Nightmares in the Horrorwalker World are horror filled!

Sometimes the horror is bleak, indeed... if it is political!

But you know... "The Thing About Nightmares" is this...!

RLJ

THE THING ABOUT NIGHTMARES

(Herndon, Virginia)

One of the things about nightmares is this: You almost always awaken from them!

One of the things about nightmares is this: You almost always remember the horror in them!

One of the things about nightmares is this: You realize that the nightmare was just a very bad dream!

One of the things about nightmares is this: This nightmare of a Trump presidency is no dream... and I must live my personal view of the horror for four long years!

RLJ

THE DAUGHTER YOU WISH YOU HAD (AN EXCERPT)

Horror thrives out in the hinterlands of all that land out there!

In places away from civilization, some humans freely practice their darkest derision!

There is horror out there in the county!

But there is a light at the end of this tale!

It is in the form of... The Daughter You Wish You Had!

RLJ

THE DAUGHTER YOU WISH YOU HAD  (AN EXCERPT)

(Chesnee, South Carolina)

...About three hours ago, Mallory Sandberg had to nearly cut off her mother's left foot to free her!

Mallory had, an hour before that, with a lot of blood and skin loss, pulled her own right foot out of the loose shackle!

Their abductor has been gone two days... and Mallory had immediately decided they had to escape this dark room!

They are both freed now... and Mallory has ransacked their prison for many sharp weapons... and he has just driven back into the driveway... and they are hidden, ready to die killing him!...

RLJ

TIME FOR A CHANGE

The next full moon is days away from today.

Mythic beasts emerge from the ebon darkness under the high silver orb.

And, for some humans who are beasts themselves,

It is Time For A Change!

RLJ

TIME FOR A CHANGE

(Montvale, New Jersey)

Janet March can feel the curse welling up in her bones... the change into the monster inside her is soon to come!

She has already put in for work vacation time... she cannot be in the city when the creature emerges!

It has already murdered 23 people in 6 years of serial killer fear... committed by the monstrous Gothic beast!

It is time to go... far away from civilization... out into the deep woods of the mountains... again... for it to murder a deer, or a bear, or something not... human!

RLJ

WILL LANGFORD'S ZOMBIE DIARY: ENTRY #481

Will Langford,

One of the few surviving humans left in ravaged Gold Coast,

Has filled 13 diaries with musings of his survival in a world gone to horror!

Winter is coming and here is another entry into...

Will Langford's Zombie Diary: Entry #481!

PAK

WILL LANGFORD'S ZOMBIE DIARY: ENTRY #481

(Chicago, Illinois)

As the harsh wind blows off the lake, another cold Chicago winter is on its way!

I, for one, cannot wait until the first hard frost blankets everything around here.

34 years into this zombie apocalypse madness, the cycle of life and death has developed a weird pattern!

That is: Fight for the survival of humanity when it is not winter... and destroy the monsters when they are frozen in the snow... but, there are so, so many zombies to debrain!

WLL

THE HORROR OF STARVATION IS AVERTED

We're 57 years deep in the post-zombie apocalypse!

The few human survivors in DC fight hard to live!

The search for food is as tough as the fight against the zombies!

But things just got a whole lot better... with one man's memory!

And The Horror Of Starvation Is Averted

WEK

THE HORROR OF STARVATION IS AVERTED

(Washington, DC)

I remember reading in an old magazine that nobody needs to starve during the zombie apocalypse!

The first things the article said to do was gather all the canned goods you can find and hoard them!

Next, separate the cans by expiration date... and always remember that canned food is edible well after that date!

 And lastly, if you can't find a can opener... don't panic, you can always open a can of food by vigorously scrubbing the top of the can on... the sidewalk!

ELS

AN IDEAL HALLOWEEN

Happy Halloween, to all the adults out there!
Make sure you show the love and respect to kids across the country!
Horror, tonight, be it light as a feather and bright as a beautiful smile!
Let it be... An Ideal Halloween!

RLJ

AN IDEAL HALLOWEEN

(Herndon, Virginia)

In the dark of this night, just after the sun drops from the sky, Halloween becomes official!

Adults, mostly, open their homes to the littlest of little human monsters seeking tricks or treats!

Perhaps in 1816 tricks might be mixed in with the treats... but that was then, and now is different!

There will be no tricks of horror tonight... only sweets to sooth the tiny hearts and help them all dream of their happy tomorrow!

RLJ

A HARBINGER OF HORROR

Every time the full moon appears in the dark night,

Pushing its reflections on the ground below,

Things awaken in this forest and they are... A Harbinger of horror!\

RLJ

A HARBINGER OF HORROR

(Easton, Delaware)

The children of the night are restless on this cool late October night!

They, who come out when the sun goes down and the darkness comes out, await the moonlight!

Halloween night is near and they can feel the electricity in the air that is the harbinger of horror!

All seven of them turn as one to the left... there is a sound approaching... it is a human sound... they all hide, this time... the hunt can wait s few more nights!

SPL

EVEN WHEN THE RAIN BLOCKS THE MOONLIGHT

Listen!

In the deep woods!

The awful sounds of horror!

Even When The Rain Blocks The Moonlight!

RLJ

EVEN WHEN THE RAIN BLOCKS THE MOONLIGHT

(Bangor, Maine)

Does the cursed become the werewolf if the full moonlight is blocked by thick rain clouds?

Is the transformation just as perverse and profound if the moon's awesome glow is blocked?

Jason Laramie knows those answers all to well because he IS the werewolf about to change!

 The full moon make him a savage monster... and he is cursed... regardless of the moonlight... death stalks the stormy night tonight!

ALW

WHAT DO YOU EAT AS A LAST OPTION (AN EXCERPT)

Ellerby Babcock's private Beechcraft G36 Bonanza lost power and crashed.

Ellerby has an idea of where he is, but right now he is very hurt and isolated.

The airplane did not break apart, but he was terribly bounced around.

Days later, he is now very hungry and has no food.

What Do You Eat As A Last Option?

RLJ

WHAT DO YOU EAT AS A LAST OPTION  (AN EXCERPT)

(The Pinnacles, California)

Dear Journal: I really don't want to eat one of these huge rats, but what the hell else am I supposed to eat?

My airplane crashed in these mountains three days ago... and both of my legs are damaged!

I finally freed myself and have gathered all the stuff I need to survive the cold nights to come!

But, I have no food... and these rat like animals are everywhere... and they bite... but they've never met a starving human before!

ESB

HOW DEEP THE GRAVE FOR THE UNDEAD

The dead do come back!

The circumstance has to be right, but it does happen!

And sometimes the dead come back for REVENGE!

If you are in that world, you better consider...

How Deep The Grave For The Undead!

RLJ

HOW DEEP THE GRAVE FOR THE UNDEAD 

(Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

...They didn't bury Anderson Marks deep enough to keep him dead... and buried!

The voodoo princess performed her dark ritual on him three days ago... and he arose her zombie slave!

But, the elders have long since banned the ancient dark art... making the princesses actions a crime!

The village men had only one option, bury the now undead victim until he decomposed in the soul... but the grave was too shallow, and now...!...

DRE

THE GAP BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

Mister Arland Landry is a frightful sight there in his hospital bed.

He lies there unmoving... except for his cloudy blue eyes.

There is a lot of activity existing inside his brain.

Including, his understanding about... The Gap Between Life And Death!

RLJ

THE GAP BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

(Baltimore, Maryland)

An elderly man rhetorically reflects on his deathbed, "How wide is the gap between life and death?"

Through tired eyes faded by 92 years of survival on planet earth, he can now see the other side!

Like a parting of the waves of the brain patterns in his head, all of the answers to life and death are now his!

It is too bad for humanity that, in the horrific throws of Stiff Man Syndrome, another soon to be departed old man cannot tell tell the world what he now knows!

RLJ

WIND DAMAGE

One October day it is hot!

The next October day it is cold!

And that profound weather change came by wind!

And what the wind blows in causes the...

Wind Damage!

RLJ

WIND DAMAGE

(Richmond, Virginia)

Like a monstrously huge prehistoric beast tearing through the more ancient forest,

The cooling, howling winds of seasonal change just blew in today from the chilly north.

There will be no Halloween full moon this season... no, you will wait until 2020 for that horror!

But, plenty of strangeness blows in as it travels with the dark winds of change... and that howling outside your window tonight is not the wind!

SOL

OLD SECRETS UP AND DOWN THE RIVER BANK

Standing on the shore of the magnificent Saginaw River,

It is too easy to imagine the...

Old Secrets Up And Down The River Bank!

RLJ 

OLD SECRETS UP AND DOWN THE RIVER BANK

(Bay City, Michigan)

Out by the always energetic river, where the bank soil is always wet and fertile, mystery abounds.

The old forest trails there, worn down through ancient foot traffic, all lead to the fast moving water.

All kinds of things, living and never living, have been lost to the water... to finally settle in the bank soil.

It is the buried bones of humans past that tell the most profound tales of adventure, and horror... and there, over there, is a partially buried human skull to start the next story.

ESD

THE SPACE BETWEEN THEM

Two spiritually depraved ghouls met at a downtown bar.

Under the cover of the darkness of a midnight moon,

They sat in a dark corner in the smoky haze of the bar.

They discussed the border lines of the hunting territory in...

The Space Between Them!

RLJ

THE SPACE BETWEEN THEM

(Alameda, California)

I do what I do!

You do what you do!

And we'll meet somewhere in the in the space between us!

And remember, the people I eat are not the people you eat... remember that... or when we do meet in the space we'll be eating each other!

SWA

STEP OUT INTO THE MOONLIGHT (AN EXCERPT)

From her dark bedroom,
A little girl looks up into the dark midnight sky.
She is admiring the stunningly clear full moon.
She is enjoying the sounds of the call of the wild.
And, she is contemplating when she will...
Step Out Into The Moonlight!

RLJ

STEP OUT INTO THE MOONLIGHT  (AN EXCERPT)

(Idaho Falls, Montana)

...5 year old Tammy is standing at her bedroom window, looking out into the shimmery dark woods.

The moment is midnight, again, and the calls of the distant wolf-things are pulling her like a magnet.

She realizes that her mother will be very mad at her if she goes outside to follow the trail of the full moon.

But she knows they want her... whatever they are...and she wants them... all she has to do is step out into the moonlight... but not tonight!...

SMN

A DREAM INTERPRETATION (AN EXCERPT)

Is a dream reality?

Does what happen inside your head,

When you are sound asleep,

Really count as reality when you awaken?

Ask Allen Samuel, 

Who just woke up to bright sunshine heating his face...

And blood gushing from his neck,

Covering his sheets and pillowcase!

RLJ

A DREAM INTERPRETATION  (AN EXCERPT)

(Bristol, Connecticut)

...What is the frightening "it" that exists inside the ether between a dream and a nightmare?

The dreamer cannot possibly answer that question while consumed by lustful id confusion!

One night the dreamer is embraced by a fantasy dream lover who could only exists to serve his ego!

Another night, she is a sullen vampire ripping out his muscular throat and gorging on his squirting crimson blood!...

ALS

FRESH MEAT (AN EXCERPT)

The secrets inside deep woods forests,

In places so remote explorers travel to map them,

There exists the chance that one might end up as... Fresh Meat!

WKL

FRESH MEAT  (AN EXCERPT)

(Aniakchak National Preserve, Alaska)

...I admit it, the first time I tasted human flesh I was repulsed by what I was chewing on!

But, my mentor guided me in the ways to season human meat... and how to enjoy it!

It was never murder, he told me, when we captured a man and cooked him like a hog!

This is our sacred land and if those men insist on coming out here... well, we'll eat them, too!...

WKL

BETTER OFF ASLEEP

Quincy Lawrence had a crazy dream last night!

He eventually awakened... disappointed!

And he came to the undeniable conclusion that he is...

Better Off Asleep!

QOL

BETTER OFF ASLEEP

(Anchorage, Alaska)

I thought I saw God last night... in my bed... in a dream state eternity of enlightenment!

There was no woman involved in this bliss... only sandman star pillows and marshmallows!

I was just about to discover the meaning of life when... I woke the fuck up... pissed off!

And then the horror returned to me... I was only in a stupid dream... and there is still no god... and there is no woman, either!

QOL

THIS IS HOW I DIED TODAY

Sal Amendola is no longer of this earth!

His mortal coil has departed this plane of existence!

His wife helped his soul to leave his body behind!

If you could ask Sal a question he would answer with...

This Is How I Died Today!

SLA

THIS IS HOW I DIED TODAY

(Saddle River, New Jersey)

Well, it sure as hell is hot wasn't the frying pan smacking me in the back of my head!

It sure wasn't the twenty-four horrifically painful knife stabs to my back and my neck!

It wasn't the dragging of my damaged body from the kitchen to the tool shed behind the house!

It was the heart attack from the fear as I watched Martha power up the table saw!

SLA