ADDICTION CAN BE A REAL HORROR

The first addiction was soul sucking.

There was only one way to break the addiction,

Substitute one addiction with another less damaging one.

Well, one sees how that is going as it is truth that...

Addictions Can Be A Real Horror!

CNH

ADDICTION CAN BE A REAL HORROR

(Thornton, New Hampshire)

I'm Charlie Jones and I just took a long hard drag from this goddamn E-Cigarette...

Hoping to again partially satisfy my overwhelmingly unsatisfiable grotesque addiction craving.

Something just went very wrong with this damn thing -- pure fire just shot into my lungs!

I’m now on the floor writhing in debilitating  pain... and the fucking carpet in now on fire!

CNH

THE SMELL OF THE CEMICALS

You never know what your neighbors are secretly up to...

Until one of their houses becomes a blast site.

The damage has been done!

The Sheriff and FBI and the ATF are investigating!

And they all want to know of the neighbors,

Didn't you notice... The Smell Of The Chemicals?

RLN

THE SMELL OF THE CHEMICALS

(Garland, Texas)

The explosion had obliterated the hands and forearms of the would-be terrorist.

The force of the explosion blew out all of the windows in the lower floor of the house.

The neighborhood residents, one week later, are still trying to explain to the cops why the never smelled the ammonia.

And, why they never offered to help the bomb maker... because he survived in horrific pain for at least several hours after his folly!

RLN

THE SAGA OF HUMAN SHEEP (AN EXCERPT)

Sometimes the horror that drags a population through the blood is self-made!

Take what the people of Wisconsin have done to themselves!

The shameful debacle they created for themselves is... 

The Saga Of Human Sheep!

HAB

THE SAGA OF HUMAN SHEEP  (AN EXCERPT)

(Madison, Wisconsin)

Even though I'm still half asleep, I'll always know that my name is Harrison Blake. 

I was just having another of my many, many nightmares as I lie, tossing and turning, in my bed.

I am suffering through a fit of horror as I relive today's apocalypse that has ripped apart my state. 

In my nightmares, the unwashed humans in my state have all been turned into... human sheep!

HAB

THE STATE OF ASS BACKWARD

One state is determined to roll back the hands of time to antebellum!

That state is the horror show that is North Carolina!

And some of the people there are getting the hell out of that cesspool of hatred!

What sane reasonable person continues to live in... The State Of Ass Backward?

MAS

THE STATE OF ASS BACKWARD

(Fayetteville, North Carolina)

Mary Sanders is now only two miles from the North Carolina/Virginia state line.

She is cruising along highway 95 at 65 mph, counting the minutes before she is set free in Virginia!

You see, she has always been an out and proud lesbian... and she can now no longer live in N.C.!

The N.C. governor just signed the most draconian anti-gay laws into being in the country... and the horror show that is North Carolina religious politics continues!

MAS

JUST ANOTHER SUNDAY

Peter Flannery wanted today to be so much more than... 

Just Another Sunday!

ASF

JUST ANOTHER SUNDAY

(Omaha, Nebraska)

Peter Flannery didn't see any Easter bunnies hopping across his yard today.

Childish fantasies aside, the strife and horror on his TV screen kept him rooted in reality.

In his country, fantastically megalomaniac politicians spewed ignorant war mongering nonsense!

In countries over there, an Easter filled with protests and violence proved to him that if there is a God... it has surely abandoned peace in the sake of its own name!

ASF

DIGEST THIS CRACKED EASTER TALE, TRUE BELIEVERS

Oh my god, no he didn't!

On Easter eve...

Would he have the balls to dare to go there?

Well, 

If you believe the bible is the most harmful piece of horror fiction ever written...

You go to this place!

So now, Digest This Cracked Easter Tale, True Believes!

RLJ

DIGEST THIS CRACKED EASTER TALE, TRUE BELIEVERS

(Herndon, Virginia)

Do you believe werewolves walk the earth... do you believe vampires stalk the darkest night?

Do you believe zombies rise from the dead to feed upon human flesh... do you believe in ghosts?

Do you believe in a god being whose son was murdered, arose from the dead and walked among men again?

Then you, horror disciple, believe in the most impossible horror caveat ever recorded in print... the horror tale of the very first zombie, named Jesus Christ!

RLJ

THE CARNAGE BEGINS WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS

Sven walks the dangerous after dark streets of Philadelphia tonight...

With a single purpose of mind.

He is a trained killer of something very difficult to kill.

He should have been back in Sweden 3 days ago, but he has more work to do here.

He just found his targets, and...

The Carnage Begins When The Music Stops!

SWN

THE CARNAGE BEGINS WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

The organ music was beautiful sound to my ears as I entered the darkened abandoned church.

But, obviously, the musician was playing those Gothic melodies with one intent in mind... to unnerve me!

It would take more than a huge darkened building and midnight weirdness to keep me away from them.

The music abruptly halted, signifying to me that they knew I had arrived... and that a whole lot of thick, cold vampire blood was about to be spilt tonight!

SWN

ALWAYS CHECK FOR THE NECK BITES

Everything about this auto crash case is just too weird.
The death of an innocent,
The cause of the accident,
The theft of the very odd cargo.
And someone should have known before you move the bodies you should...
Always Check For The Neck Bites!

RDM

ALWAYS CHECK FOR THE NECK BITES

(Terre Haute, Indiana)

Who in their right mind would steal a truck filled with a much needed supply of blood plasma?

Why would six masked perpetrators murder the driver and hijack his medical transport vehicle?

And why was the murdered driver declared drained of blood by the horrified forensic specialists?

These are the questions asked all over again by the police detectives after the driver's body disappeared from the morgue... seeming getting up at midnight and walking away into the dark night.

RDM

WHY A GROWN MAN CALLS HIS MOMMY

In the dark!

In the middle of the night!

In my bedroom!

 Where I believe I am untouchable!

Ah, but shock and surprise...

In the middle of the night!

It happens!

Here is a reason Why A Grown Man Calls His Mommy!

WKL

WHY A GROWN MAN CALLS HIS MOMMY

(Boulder, Colorado)

Well mom, as you know, your son Walter here never really been afraid of spiders.

But last night, when I awoke at midnight, and I discovered that something was on my forehead?

Holy Crap, mom... I shot out of the bed and clawed at my face so hard I almost knocked myself out.

Well, I'll let you go back to sleep now... I always need my mommy... even at 34 years old... as I hold this can of RAID in my shaky right hand!

WKL

THE COWARDS OF HORROR

(A reality missive from the Horrorwalker World!)

What kind of man is lower than the scum of the earth?

I don't have the word in my mind today.

But these terrorist fools of the world who murder many by bombing,

They who are human waste,

Are... The Cowards Of Horror!

RLJ

THE COWARDS OF HORROR

(Brussels, Belgium)

In this Horrorwalker World of Horror exists reality horror... and horror so surreal it seems unreal!

In the surreality quadrant of this world, the monsters and the creatures of nightmares exist to frighten you!

In the reality quadrants of this Horror World exists the most frightening creatures there is... the humans!

 They have struck again... creating horror mayhem and death to their fellow man... cementing the horror in this Horrorwalker World in Brussels, Belgium!

RLJ

A FOUNDATION NOT THICK ENOUGH

The place is beautiful!

The Lancaster family is in love with it and would move in today, if they could.

There are secrets about this house that are not always revealed to prospective buyers.

Horrible secrets, like... 

This house was built on A Foundation Not Thick Enough to contain the horror beneath it!

SLL

A FOUNDATION NOT THICK ENOUGH

(Sylvania, Georgia)

The old Sotheby's house is a huge 5 bedroom farmhouse, built in 1919, that sits on 6 acres.

This is the perfect house for the family that wants to live out in the country a quarter mile from the neighbors.

Never mind the fact that 18 people have been murdered in this house over the many decades!

The fruit trees are lovely and the full pecan trees are to die for... so to is the horrible curse trickling up from the Native American burial site underneath the house!

SLL

WHY YOU WILL LOVE ME TO DEATH (AN EXCERPT)

Emile Lewis is very proud to be a practitioner of the dark art.

That makes her a witch... and she is dead serious about it.

One of the perks of being an expert spellcaster is...

She can have any man she chooses to go after.

Take cocky Lewis here,

Sitting in a trance on the side of her bed,

Oblivious to her words as she explains to him...

Why You Will Love Me To Death!

EML

  

WHY YOU WILL LOVE ME TO DEATH  (AN EXCERPT)

(Nashville, Tennessee)

...It was just the simplest of magic potions that made you love me.

The simple ingredients were right there in my kitchen pantry.

The nutmeg is the constant that keeps your mind focused on love.

It is the magic in the mushrooms that makes me look like your biggest fantasy!...

EML

WHAT IS TRUE HORROR

Come the morning,

You should never want to feed the need to ask yourself...

What Is True Horror?

RLJ

WHAT IS TRUE HORROR

(Herndon, Virginia)

True horror is... when you begin to starkly realize you are now the age when old people die!

True horror is... when you realize you now hurt all over your body like your granddad used to.

True horror is... when you are deathly afraid to go to sleep at night, wondering if you will awaken come the dawn.

True horror is... you praising your deity when you open your eyes in the morning, to realize you have at least one more day to live!

RLJ

LET ME GO BEFORE I DIE AGAIN

Maggie has committed an act so arcanely profound it might as well be a crime against nature.

She still doesn't know how she made this act happen.

It has been decades since it happened.

Her husband, Spellman, is the victim.

And every time it is about to happen to him again he begs Maggie to...

Let Me Go Before I Die Again!

SPW

LET ME GO BEFORE I DIE AGAIN

(Natchez, Mississippi)

I dream of you, dearest Maggie, when I die every night between 8:21 PM and 8:21 AM after my body goes into its deep recess.

You always wait for me to awaken... sitting by my reposed body... keeping it safe until I open my eyes.

When you first murdered me 20 years ago, we both discovered that I cannot die... in the conventional sense.

We both know it is your guilt keeping me alive.... but I want you to let me go... but you won't because of your guilt... leaving me in a nightmare hell, dear Maggie!

SPW

I AM THEIR DEATH, AGAIN (AN EXCERPT)

My name is Allen Langstrom!

I am a vampire hunter!

And... I Am Their Death, Again!

ALL

I AM THEIR DEATH, AGAIN  (AN EXCERPT)

(Transylvania, Louisiana)

...In my profession, it can be a great equalizer to be proceeded by a dangerous reputation!

I embrace my reputation because it gains me the respect I need to destroy my enemies!

You should see them quake in their boots with fear as they watch me approach their camp!

I don't even have to brandish the wooden stakes... some of them simply lie down to die without a fight!...

ALL

MY MELANCHOLY BLUES

Patrick Jeffcoat has just suffered a Godzilla stomp to his soul.

That was yesterday.

Last night he suffered the horrors of nightmares.

Today, he muses over his pain.

And tonight, he knows, will be another night steeped in...

My Melancholy Blues!

PEJ 

MY MELANCHOLY BLUES

(Rhome, Texas)

All the way up here toward the top of Texas... might as well be on the stark lonely moon.

One hour away from Dallas and this might as well be a million miles away from the city life.

Much to my horror, my son left me here yesterday to find his way, and a wife, in the big city.

My blues isn't really melancholy... I know where my pain is... and it is now down there in Dallas, Texas!

PEJ

WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE DREAMS

From the past, flash forward to the present.

The dreams of young people mature into dense realities.

Some of them will ask the question, "What Happened To Those Dreams?"

RLJ

WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE DREAMS

(Killeen, Texas)

In the year 1977, a young man of grand ideas and greater morals was happy to be alive in the USA.

He just graduated high school... soon to be in college... and later to conquer the business world.

Good dreams for the future, indeed... until life, and mankind, made his dreams into horror nightmares.

Business dreams realized, for the making of a very good life...  but how do you enjoy the success when America of 2016 is cracking at its own moral seam?

RLJ

REASON ENOUGH FOR REVENGE

There are times when it is a young girl who becomes the warrior.

Eventually, she will have to prove herself with a dangerous task.

Young Suoon  Moonsky is facing her trial right now.

She is ready because she already has... Reason Enough For Revenge!

RLJ

REASON ENOUGH FOR REVENGE

(Seattle, Washington)

In a time of the earliest Native Americans, deep inside the inner depths of the Echo Opine Forest, a fearful heart beats in a young girl's chest.

She has trekked two miles to the heart of this dark and presumably evil forest to kill a man who is indeed evil.

Oh, all 15 sun cycles of her is not afraid of this evil wizard who steals virginal girls from their beds at night for his nefarious purposes.

No indeed, she is actually afraid for him, 'fore she has the training, the Cleansing Sword, the Reflecting Shield and motivation to bring back her baby sister... and his black heart!

RLJ

LEFT ALONE

You know how those old people are.
They have all been put in that place for a reason.
You can expect them to do something crazy if they are...
Left Alone!

EKK

LEFT ALONE

(Alameda, California)

It appeared to be another wonderful Sunday morning in the Oak Woods Senior Living Community.

The early summertime air was fresh, the butterflies were in full color and the flowers scented the air.

There was so much light and freshness on the outside of the condominium... but oh, inside the building is pure horror.
Those seniors know how to throw an Animal House party... ask Mr. Johnson, if you could, because his blood had painted the walls red!

EKK

GOD'S EYES (AN EXCERPT)

The eyes have it.

And most of us need ours working all the time.

Right now, Jason Connors needs his eyesight,

Because there is danger near him and he cannot count on... God's Eyes!

RLJ

GOD'S EYES  (AN EXCERPT)

(Yakima, Washington)

...How tired can a hard working man get after a week of back breaking work?

Jason Connors worked so hard all week that his eyes failed him before he went to bed tonight.

His eyes simply stopped working and all he could see was a blur in the mirror as he brushed his teeth.

He felt his way to his bed and said a little prayer begging god for his sight back in the morning... just before someone outside broke the patio door downstairs!...

RLJ

ANARCHY TRUMPED

Three thousand Caucasian boisterous people at a Donald Trump rally.

Some of the Caucasian people are there to protest Trump.

Twenty-five black people at that same rally.

Some of them are there to protest.

All hell breaks loose when the few black protesters dare to speak out.

And the mob of delusional duped Trump Supporters descend down upon them.

And the result is right there on my TV... Anarchy Trumped!

RLJ

ANARCHY TRUMPED

(Herndon, Virginia)

It's a cool Friday night in March... the weather is oddly great... and I just want to watch some TV.

I turn on the TV and flip around a few channels, past basketball, and guess where I finally end up... CNN.

And what do I see on CNN... I see the fantasy horror movie THE PURGE right there on Chicago's streets.

No, not the movie on CNN... that anarchic bullshit is real... at another bat shit crazy Donald Trump rally... and his chaos is real world horror... in the USA!

RLJ

I DO THE HAUNTING AROUND HERE

It is just about time for Demetria Anderson to head out into the night.
She is dressed to kill... and kill she will.
But right now she has a dilemma to deal with.
The problem is downstairs.
And, it has prompted her to declare... I Do The Haunting Around Here!

 DSA

I DO THE HAUNTING AROUND HERE

(Iowa City, Iowa)

Who's that weeping in my downstairs room at this, the midnight hour?

It's now the the witching hour, I live alone, and someone is in my downstairs reading den.

I turned off the radio, and the TV, and I never leave them on... so, what is that sound?

I was told this house was haunted before I purchased it, but I'm the undead vampire here... I do the haunting around here!

DSA

BONES AMONG THESE DUNES

A walk along a sandy beach inspires complex thoughts and musings.

Today, the answer sought...

Are there... Bones Among These Dunes?

RLJ

BONES AMONG THESE DUNES

(Holden Beach, North Carolina)

Underneath the snow white sands of this north Carolina beach rest the bones of the long dead.

Among them are the bones of dead slaves, dead sailors, and dead Native Americans, too.

Oh, there were surely pirates, too... and oh the cutthroat chaos of trying to survive those dark times.

And where these bones rest, there are souls waiting for their chance to come back for revenge!

RLJ

UNDER MY BED AS I SLEEP

I'm Zephyr Young... and I have a tale of monster horror to tell. 

They whisper all night long.

What they are, I don't know.

But, they are horrible monsters, all loud and bloody.

And they fight... Under My Bed As I Sleep!

ZAY

UNDER MY BED AS I SLEEP

(Kailua, Hawaii)

The otherworldly creatures whispering and thumping under my bed are a rowdy bunch tonight.

I have never understood a single word they say with that garbled monster language.

What I do understand is the violence they perpetrate upon each other from night to night.

I'm really getting tired of cleaning up their bile and their gore and their blood every morning when I awaken from my fitful sleep!

ZAY

CUSTOMER SERVICE WORK

Anderson Willis just flicked the morning newspaper onto the back seat of his car.

He has got to keep informed about the always busy news in this city.

Today, he intensely read the article about the possible Serial Killer in the area.

He gave a little chuckle at the thought before going inside of his job to do his...

Customer Service Work!

ANW

CUSTOMER SERVICE WORK

(San Francisco, California)

Ah, another long day at the office is over and done with!

Again, I changed the life of a person I came into contact with today.

I do my best customer service work in the complaint department on my lunch break.

You could ask the idiot who had the nerve to complain to me, but he is dead and smelly in the trunk of my car!

ANW

WHAT COURAGE BE THERE IN DEATH

An old man sits silently in his wheelchair.

He does realize that the end of his life is near.

And... he is angry about it all.

Living on 'til death takes you is not courageous!

He asks himself this question every day...

What Courage Be There In Death?

SMA

WHAT COURAGE BE THERE IN DEATH

(Tampa Bay, Florida)

Written with shaky hands: It has been said by somebody out there that it takes a lot of courage to face your own death.

As I'm sitting in my wheelchair, with pen and pad, under Hospice Care, here in my dark bedroom... I say... what the hell?

The oxygen tube in my nose is crap, the IV in my right arm is bullshit and the feeding tube down my throat is hellish torture!

I see death every day... standing in the dark corner smiling at me... waiting for me... and there is no courage here, only solid hatred!

SMA

FOR THOSE WHO CRAVE REVENGE

You should have thought about your awful ways before tonight,

Andre Lewis,

Because your life is now... For Those Who Crave Revenge!

RLJ

FOR THOSE WHO CRAVE REVENGE

(Clemson, South Carolina)

Let's be brutally honest... Andre Lewis was one of the most awful 34 year old men on the planet.

He was an unpunished bigger than everybody else bully in grade school, middle school and high school who really punished girls.

Torturing " girl nerds" was the claim to infamy he embraced... and obviously he carried that evil derision to college.

But college days are long gone... and tortured "Nerd" Mary Anders now has captured Andre, and hogtied him... and her knives are razor sharp!

RLJ

THEY BELONG TO THE CITY... AT NIGHT

They are no longer human!

But, they once were.

And they have yet to totally divorce themselves from what they once were.

Regardless, they still commiserate as though they are alive.

Afterward, they head out to do very bad things...

Because...

They Belong To The City... At Night!

WKD

THEY BELONG TO THE CITY... AT NIGHT

(Trenton, New Jersey)

Sandy, Ron and Albert have met for a late light, after hours, dinner at Zoe's Diner for 17 years in a row.

At 11:30 PM, they gather at their reserved table in the low lit back side corner and shoot the breeze.

They always eat the same dish... a rare steak, rare blood pudding on the side and a Real Bloody Mary.

And the other 25 patrons of the diner eat similar dishes... before they all head out into the black night of the city to hunt down human snacks!

WKD

IN THE COMPANY OF DOGS (AN EXCERPT)

What should have been a quick,

Medium sized, 

Vampire lament tale has taken me much longer to write than I wanted it to.

The story here is very unique and I want to get it right.

How much time should pass in the quest for the perfect story?

Presenting another Fourth Line Of Horror excerpt from a longer tale of mine.

This tale is a HORRORWALKER TRAVEL GUIDE missive...

And it will be presented in that format... soon.

And now... a few lines from: In The Company Of Dogs!

RLJ

IN THE COMPANY OF DOGS  (AN EXCERPT)

(Fairfax, Virginia)

....A dog, of course, can look very deep into the dead eyes of a vampire, peering deep into the blackened soullessness of this undead being. Dogs, with their senses that can access a sensory world humans and vampires will never truly know, do not like what they see on the other side of the iris. I also believe dogs hate the way we smell and they absolutely do not trust us. Human-like creatures who do not die because they are undead, and who consume blood for life, must give off a blasphemous odor that confuses and infuriates dogs!...

RLJ

WOLVES SNIFFING THE AIR

Without saying a word,

Two New York City executives instantly knew everything about the other.

They are very special humans,

Controlled by supernatural forces controlled by the moon.

The know each other because they are...

Wolves Sniffing The Air!

WML 

WOLVES SNIFFING THE AIR

(Manhattan, New York City)

That lady over there... the one in the white Akris power suit... she is not what she appears to be.

Oh, by day she runs her brokerage business from a high rise on Wall Street... but, by night she is a real monster.

Well, on the nights of the full moon, that is... when she drives upstate to her woodland cottage to murder prey.

How do I know all this... by the burn of the Pentagram in my own right palm... I can smell her every deed when she is near me... and, she to me, too!

WML

HOW HITLER WON NORTH CAROLINA'S HEART

North Carolina has a very dark history of terror and horror!
A nasty fact is... much of it has been directed toward its black citizens!
White people of a time in this state's backward history embraced pure dark evil!
Enter North Carolina's near 50 year long Eugenics Program...
Or, How Hitler Won North Carolina's Heart!

SBV

HOW HITLER WON NORTH CAROLINA'S HEART

(Wilmington, North Carolina)

Alice Jones, another 13 years old black girl, was horrified when three social workers came to her home and forcibly took her away!

To this day, it is still not known how they concluded she was retarded and aggressive during her menstrual cycle... and decided to take her!

They came for her in 1973, by decree of North Carolina's racist Eugenics program, and immediately institutionalized her... and sterilized her!

Today, she continues to exist in a comatose dead zone... still a ward of the state in a Wilmington psychiatric ward... driven mad by the N.C. Hitler derived program!

SBV