THE THINGS YOU CAN LEARN IN A BOOK

Nancy is mesmerized by the time worn large hardback book on her desk.

I became obvious, two hours ago, that she had just found her new obsession.

She has a very curious expression on her face right now.

It is the kind of expression one has when she is plotting revenge.

Oh, The Things You Can Learn In A Book!

PTT 

THE THINGS YOU CAN LEARN IN A BOOK

(Lawrenceburg, Indiana)

The title of the ancient book resting on the bookshelf of the old, dusty bookstore was profound.

THE BEST WAY TO DIE is one hell of a name to give to a book published in 1832.

Nancy Travers simply KNEW she had to have this huge tome from the first time she saw it.

She purchased it... and has now finished chapter 1... and man, oh man has she learned a lot... about how to get revenge on her enemies!

PTT

THE DREAMS CARLY HAS

The lady in the bed is nodding off.

She is warm and cozy between the sheets and the blanket.

Only she knows... The Dreams Carly Has!

RPS

THE DREAMS CARLY HAS

(Bolton, Texas)

Carly, the sleepyhead, is minutes away from falling asleep and dancing with her dream.

Welcome to a night like tonight... one following a full day of being harassed and abused at work.

She is a happy woman, thought she often wishes she had a warm body to sleep beside.

Sometimes a nightmare creeps into the sleep, but Carly is only interested in one thing, and tonight she will have it!

RPS

HITLER INVOKED

The presidential candidate gave a speech before the press, the other day! 

My lower jaw dropped to my sternum when I heard his words!

He openly spoke racist dogmatic tripe before the press!

Not one person in the crowd booed him!

And many of the TV news shows ignore and downplay the racism.

Oh, my god!

How can the Jewish people of America watching this not scream that this is... 

Hitler Invoked!

RLJ

HITLER INVOKED

(Herndon, Virginia)

Hitlerism never dies because the horror he inflicted upon the world lives on in the ideas of man!

Throughout time, the horror of Hitler pops up here and there... and some men follow it like sheep!

In America, for God's sake, North Carolina invoked it for decades in its Hitler fueled Eugenics program!

And today, certain Hitler-like American politicians invoke the "America First" movement... a shocking throwback to anti semitism racism... like, Hitler's obsession!

RLJ

DADDY, I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO TELL YOU (AN EXCERPT)

When I was a little girl I had an imagination so vivid I needed medical help.

My mother was frightened of me because my imagination sometimes bent reality.

When I became a teenager my imagination became normal.

And, I reconciled with my mother for the times I scared the crap out of her.

Now, at the age of 27, my imagination has become scary again.

And, I am frightened... of myself!

I need to go home to see my parents.

I can hear myself saying it now... Daddy, I've Got Something To Tell You!

SEY

DADDY, I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO TELL YOU  (AN EXCERPT)

(Fayetteville, North Carolina)

Daddy, lately I've been having those very vivid dreams again... like the ones by the Whisperers from my childhood.

These aren't the weird dreams of fantasy creatures and marshmallow mushrooms inspected by the therapists.

These dreams are black nightmares of dark dreamscapes, red skinned horned men and fire dust burning the trees.

And there is blood everywhere... and the horned men tell me to murder you and mom... and then I stab them all in their eyes!

SEY

GOD CANNOT CONTROL HIS WOLF

If only there was something more than what Allen Andrews has become!

But, this is it and it is horrible!

Bad feral things happen on a night like this.

And even God Cannot Control His Wolf!

ALA

GOD CANNOT CONTROL HIS WOLF

(Wikieup, Arizona)

I can see the bold full moon outside my bedroom window tonight, through the cloudless sky.

I'm lying here on my back in my bed, staring through the glass, bathed in the silver glow.

As usual, I've prayed to God that he would change my reality and shoo away the monster tonight.

But, of course, there is no God... and I can feel my bones beginning to break... and let's hope these wrist and ankle chains contain the monster for another night!

ALA

WHO EXPLAINS WHAT THE WHISPERERS IS

HORROR FICTION

When The Whisperers find you,

And it tells you to do bad things you have never thought of,

You will be faced with two choices...

Are you still sane, or have you gone crazy?

It is only you Who Explains What The Whisperers Is!

JAK

WHO EXPLAINS WHAT THE WHISPERERS IS

(The Bronx, New York City)

The hottest fire will not burn it... the deepest water will not drown it!

The end of a pencil will not erase it... it cannot be scrubbed away!

What is being mused about here is that which is the most frightening!

It is The Whisperers, the ephemeral collected evil in a Horrorwalker World that attacks the human mind and causes very bad things to happen.

JAK

CRAZY OLD UNCLE BOB

Everyone has got one...

An outrageous uncle who is bat shit crazy.

One might simply be obnoxious!

One might be a drunken fool!

One might be inappropriate with the young girls in the family.

 And one might actually be... crazy!

Here is a little blurb about my Crazy Old Uncle Bob!

ANS

CRAZY OLD UNCLE BOB

(Salt Lake City, Utah)

I am Allen Saunders, and as a kid, I always wondered if uncle Bob was just fucking with me...

When he told me the crazy tales about the frightening shrunken head on the wall in his den.

I guess he thought it was funny when, on my 21st birthday, he took me inside...

And told it to talk to me, of which it did, and now my world is just as fucking crazy as uncle Bob's!

ANS

I HAD TO LEARN ENGLISH IF I WANTED TO EAT (AN EXCERPT)

HORROR FICTION

When a man comes to one land from another land,

He pretty much better learn the language, 

If it is different from his own.

I ran headlong into that situation a very long time ago.

And as it turned out...

I Had To Learn English If I Wanted To Eat!

RDL

I HAD TO LEARN ENGLISH IF I WANTED TO EAT  (AN EXCERPT)

(San Francisco, California)

...The first poem I wrote in English was all the way back in... let's see... it was June of 1847.

I was living in San Francisco... I don't remember how I got there... and I needed to learn English.

I slept all day... and I spent the early part of my nights in St. Mary's Mission learning the language.

Afterward, I would hunt down a midnight meal... preying was so easy back then... study a little... write a little... and then gently close my coffin to start all over again the next night....

RDL

ON BORROWED TIME

The fear of death touches everyone.

It will eventually drag all of us down into the darkness.

But for now... Enjoy life On Borrowed Times!

BOM

ON BORROWED TIME

(Sumter, South Carolina)

Having just turned fifty-seven years of age, Billy Marr felt that he was living on borrowed time.

It sure seemed to him that many people seem to draw their last breath of life at this particular age.

Just the other day, the most famous musician on earth died... at the too young age of fifty-seven years old.

So, as he takes his morning handful of vitamins and meds, he begs to whatever god that might exist... please keep me alive... On Borrowed Time!

BOM

WJFK: THE LIVING EMBODIMENT OF BAD RADIO

Pure ignorance!

Pure racism!

Pure ugliness!

Pure WJFK radio!

Pure Washington, DC!

Prince dies and within hours the pure disrespect begins!

It begins with Chris Russell!

It is all a goddamn shame!

RLJ

WJFK: THE LIVING EMBODIMENT OF BAD RADIO

(Washington, DC)

On Washington, DC's radio air, on WJFK radio, pure disrespect of the dead lives there... like of MJ.

Mere hours after Prince's death, Chris Russell came on live and denigrated the dead man!

He chose to focus on "weird Prince," and the fact that he "had more respect for Glenn Frey's death!"

To mock the dead, to disrespect the dead, to misrepresent the dead... shame on you at WJFK radio as you continue to be the living embodiment of bad radio!

RLJ

HANGING AROUND THE OLD OAK TREE

Trees cannot talk.

Trees cannot see.

But, trees have ways to tell the tales of the history they have lived through.

All Oak Tree tales should begin with the phrase...
Hanging Around The Old Oak Tree!

DEM

HANGING AROUND THE OLD OAK TREE

(Whiteville. North Carolina)

There it stands, in a field of lost North Carolina horror nightmares, the ancient Oak Tree from times lost.

Scientists call it Quercus, and it has seen so much uncalled horror that nature itself is happy it cannot talk.

Dark spirits haunt this hundreds of years old tree... from the roots to the very top of this strong survivor.

When the wind blows through the leaves, if one listens carefully and is in tune with the metaphysical, one can hear the words..."Evil be deep, in this North Carolina soil!"

DEM

THE MOST SPECIAL SAUCE

I am Samantha Neighbors and I have a most special appetite.

I am very hungry... right now!

I eat one thing only...

Laced with The Most Special Sauce!

SAN

THE MOST SPECIAL SAUCE

(Winchester, Virginia)

Human blood is such a special sauce that flavors the raw meat that soaks in it!

A little bit can go a very long way, but who in the hell wants just a little bit?

Fresh red blood, with the iron aroma hanging in the air like a candy cloud, is awesome!

A good drunk comes on as I gulp it down... like a glutton ravaging fine wine... gushing from the still beating artery in the side of your blood soaked neck!

SAN

SWIMMING IN THE MIND OF MADNESS

Randall Cobb is drowning inside the psychosis in his mind.

He might as well be a Great White Shark biting everything near him.

He is dangerous... and crazy... and a serial murderer!

The doctors treating him might as well be...

Swimming In The Mind Of Madness!

RLJ

SWIMMING IN THE MIND OF MADNESS

(Dallas, Texas)

The fragile mind is an endlessly open ocean of thoughts.

The variety of thoughts, like aquatic animals, are vast and varied.

There are prey thoughts and there are predator thoughts... dangerous inside a deranged mind.

They swim together, like sharks and dolphins, one ready to murder the other in a moment's notice... unless one of them kills you first!

RLJ

DRINK THE TOXIC WATER, GOVERNOR (AN EXCERPT)

It might be a virus that takes out humanity!

It might be terrorist explosions that eventually obliterate humanity!

Or, it might be the blatant disregard for human biological decency by a governor!

Take the case of the horrific zombie apocalypse that began as a drinking water assault!

Will someone force the governor to... Drink The Toxic Water, Governor!

 ELO

DRINK THE TOXIC WATER, GOVERNOR  (AN EXCERPT)

(Flint, Michigan)

The first zombie attacks in the Midwest of the zombie apocalypse started in central Michigan.

By the time the CDC scientists determined the cause, the monsters had overrun the state.

It was a combination of lead, river metals and decades of pollution in the drinking water that did it.

The brain rot of the polluted drove them mad... and their bites spread the madness... and the governor of the state still has not admitted his part in the ongoing spreading death.

ELO

WHEN DEATH TAKES A BREAK

Wouldn't you like to predict...
When Death Takes A Break?

VEL

WHEN DEATH TAKES A BREAK

(Fairfax, Virginia)

In a Horrorwalker World of Horror, death comes quickly to the weak.
You better be fast and you better be prepared... attacks come at any moment.
You better be your quickest on the ebon nights when the moon is high and silver.
But tonight... you hope death and horror are sitting in a loud pub, getting drunk and watching basketball and leaving everyone alone.

VEL

SWEET EVIL

Be it in small town America,

Or in large American cities with big populations,

Evil things are happening that to some is... Sweet Evil!

RLJ

SWEET EVIL

(Constantia, New York)

Like colorful gummy candy is sweet to the taste, so to is the gooey taste of evil.

Evil, like sugar melting on a sweet tooth, can travel straight to craving bloodstream.

And like candy, the craving for more evil itches the mind as it touches the tongue again.

Even though evil is insidious in its corruptive powers... thank goodness the enemies of evil are always on the alert to take it out!

RLJ

WORDS OF CONTEXT

The third planet from the sun.

A ball of stuff limping through space.

Who will tell the tale of its downfall?

When the atmosphere has turned into poison?

Who will tell those... Words Of Context!

SLP

WORDS OF CONTEXT

(Washington, D.C.)

When everything's said and done, eventually, all that will be left will be memories turned into words.

Oh, the video will show a planet in crisis... a planet in horror peril... a planet on nuclear fire!

But, it will be the words that future visitors to this scorched planet will need for proper context.

So now, just where in the hell do we store the Words Of Context to a world on fire when everything is on fire!

SLP

THE WEREWOLF SEASON

August will be here before I know it!

I have to be ready when the Full Sturgeon Moon appears!

I have bullets to make!

I have to prepare for... The Werewolf Season!

SOK

THE WEREWOLF SEASON

(Plattsburg, New York)

I bleed and I sweat when I labor to make the 15 handmade silver bullets for my Glock 19.

Last year, I only used 6 of 15 bullets for the 6 werewolves I hunted down and exterminated.

Today, in mid-April, is the time I need to begin preparing for the August full moon season.

This was a very mild winter season... they'll be out in force in mid-August and I'll need those extra bullets from last year's werewolf season!

SOK

SAND DUNES (AN EXCERPT)

In this beautiful place of fantasy and water,

The Zombie Apocalypse hit very hard, indeed!

The living drove most of the undead into the sea,

But the undead took many of the living in with them.

Coronado is still beautiful!

The city is now very isolated!

It is preserved by the low humidity!

And the few remaining humans try to survive the monsters washing in from the ocean.

Ellwood Masterson has an entire city island to play with.

He knows of only 15 other people alive here and there.

Everybody is committed to surviving the insanity.

And Ellwood just found someone else!

ESM

SAND DUNES  (AN EXCERPT)

(Coronado, California)

The frightened young woman sat trapped inside a gasless, but basically undamaged, Mercedes SUV!

This was the large gaudy one, a beautiful expensive tank, so she was safe inside the metal and glass.

But, 50 zombies could wait her out forever... making her another dried husk in an abandoned vehicle.

I could not leave her in there like that, especially now that she has seen me, so today things turn as I will have to now care for a young woman, too.

ESM

THE PARADOXICAL WAY

Sometimes the people caught in the middle of the horror just want a decision to be made!

DEE

THE PARADOXICAL WAY

(Pueblo, Colorado)

The paradoxical way Americans approach reality in the Horrorwalker World is vexing!
Some people believe the horror is real... some people believe all that magic bullshit is stupid!

And then there are those tired folks caught in the middle of the believers on both ends of the matters.
They simply want factions to decide whether the horror is real, or not... and then for them to go out there and kill the monsters stomping through the neighborhoods!

DEE

HIGH DICTION (AN EXCERPT)

Just because somebody looks,

And sounds,

Like the just stepped right out of a 1800's Concord Coach...

You should not necessarily trust them.

 Look for the feral canines in their mouths.

And, listen closely to their... High Diction!

ALM

HIGH DICTION  (AN EXCERPT)

(Port Allen, Louisiana)

Petr and Maxine had already mastered the art of speaking in high diction over two centuries ago.

Mesmerizing your prey, moving in closer and closer for the kill, is easier when you speak like an aristocrat.

They are still undead beings born from a long ago time when magic and horror openly lived side by side.

And no matter how much they pretend to be of a higher class of existence than they really are... they are still dead abominations who murder for the blood they drink!

ALM

FAIRY TAIL

Quiet Running Fox hoped to find answers to the meaning of her existence.

Deep inside the woods is where she sought her answers.

The village elders warned her against taking the trek alone.

But she is stubborn.

And she has not learned to listen.

Be she is about to be taught the lesson in life she seeks...

In this Fairy Tail!

CRB

FAIRY TAIL

(Deep Inside An Ancient California Forest)

She lightly sat upon the unopened disc florets of a large flawlessly yellow sunflower.

Her butterfly wings were hypnotic with their rainbow colors and the whispery way they fluttered.

The smoky mist rising up from the warm bog floor made me believe every word she said.

That is, until I saw the red tail flicker underneath her spider silk dress... and I realized this is no Fairy Tail!

QRF

ICE CHIPS

There are certain things that can always make it all feel better.

A gentle touch from a loved one is one example.

Sweet milky chocolate is another example.

But nothing can cool the hell like... Ice Chips!

RLJ

ICE CHIPS

(Herndon, Virginia)

When your work has been a real ball buster... when your car has decided to be a real gremlin!

When some of your friends are all in a snit... when your significant other is acting like your enemy!

When your body rebels against you making you tap-out... when your dreams become ugly nightmares!

The things that can make it all better, like when you're laid-up on your back in hospital, are cool wonderful Ice Chips... to crunch away the horror!

RLJ

THE WRITING MUST GO ON

(1)

(A make-up tale of reality horror for yesterday's absence in this blog!)

Holy shit,

This flu virus is kicking my ass!

I wish somebody could help me,

But this is a a battle between me and the enemy within!

Too bad there isn't a god to help me.

Regardless, The Writing Must Go On!

RLJ

THE WRITING MUST GO ON

(Herndon, Virginia)

I am always amazed by the ability of a simple virus particle to replicate and take down animals.

When that animal is a decades long Crohn's disease suffering human... days and nights of horror ensues.

Bad things are made worse when the virus attacks the stomach... oh, the intimacy of the commode and I.

I missed posting my story yesterday because of my stint with real world horror, and I'm not better yet... but, the writing MUST go on!

RLJ

(2)

(Today's Horror Tale!)

ROBOT DREAMS

(Houston, Texas)

What do you dream about after you drag yourself into bed after another dog-eat-dog day?

Tonight, you will dream about the future when the robots have taken over and utopia is created.

Simply put, these once man made constructs have decided that they were forced to take over.

And when you awaken in the morning, and you curse another dog-eat-dog day, you decide that maybe robotics is the schooling you need!

ASM

IN THE WITCHING HOUR

Sometimes,

The time just sneaks up on you.

And then you find yourself staring directly into the dark abyss...

Of The Witching Hour!

What you do when you find yourself there might mean life of death.

It is that dangerous... In The Witching Hour!

ELK

IN THE WITCHING HOUR

(New Orleans, Louisiana)

Again, it is the witching hour... the time when midnight approaches and evil is most powerful.

How lucky for man that most of them do not believe is such magics anymore... lucky, indeed.

In that hour... babies were stolen, children were eaten, sacrifices were made and monsters attacked!

Cauldrons bubbled and newts lost their eyes...  all under the eldritch cloak of the dark... In The Witching Hour!

ELK

WHAT THE DOG DID LAST NIGHT

Who protects us when we sleep at night?

Is it a spouse?

A parent?

A sibling??

The family dog?

Let's take a quick look at What The Dog Did Last Night!

SWP

WHAT THE DOG DID LAST NIGHT

(Baltimore, Maryland)

 Maxis, the Parsons family 6 year old St. Bernard, is patrolling the house during this, the midnight hour.

Everybody is asleep now, including the parents and the 3 children... but Maxis is wide awake and alert.

He sees things the humans cannot see and he smells things the humans cannot smell and oh, what he hears.

Tonight, the small evil things are in the walls again... he is ready for them a third time... and he'll kill them all if he has to in this thankless job to protect his family!

SWP

17 YEARS AGAIN

Some horrors are small and harmless.

You know the kind... icky things you don't want to touch.

You might not want to touch it,

But... someone else might actually eat it!

Yes, you've guessed right... it's already been 17 YEARS AGAIN!

RLJ

17 YEARS AGAIN

(Stone Mountain, Georgia)

The Cicada loaded buildings shutter in apprehension in the high humidity of Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Some people are so into these giant bugs that they cook them up and eat them every 17 years.

The sounds they make are so alien... the eyes they have are so alien... their life cycle is all so alien!

Really, an insect that lives underground for 17 years, emerges by the billions, terrorizes the population with their harmless insanity, before vanishing for 17 more years... ALIEN!

RLJ

DEMAGOGUES

The last people any sane population,

As a whole,

Should ever want to hand over the controls to its nuclear arsenal are...

Demagogues!

RLJ

DEMAGOGUES

(Herndon, Virginia)

Oh, it was funny and stupid at first... the presidential candidates who masked their derision with religion!

The separation of church and state... who remembers that antiquated notion that protects us from zealots?

Mind cracking reality TV and former Presidents whose overt religious stupidity infected a nation begging for relief!

And now, today, the Demagogues have risen from the muck of horror dumbness and god help us all... oh wait, god is another one of their fever nightmare delusions!

RLJ

LIKE POLLEN FROM A DEAD MAN

Frazier's death was horrible... and two days quick.

Nobody should have to suffer like that, but they do.

It was unfortunate that he brought death back to Florida with him.

And now the CDC has descended upon this city.

They have to take care of this horror show quickly!

This thing can spread Like Pollen From A Dead Man!

MLL

LIKE POLLEN FROM A DEAD MAN

(Miami, Florida)

The end-of-it-all started with a sore throat and blurry eyes and pain at the bite site!

Then came the sneezing and the coughing and the dripping of the mucus from the nose!

Then came the blood flowing out of his nose and mouth like drool from a sloppy drunk!

And finally, he died... and then the disease began to really become dangerous!

WLL