BREAKING DOWN

I awakened this morning to a thought that made me smile a little!

'Oh, well... I've made it through another night!'

The thought of dying in my sleep makes me frown when I lie down!

I'm serious about this shit, because at my age my body is... Breaking Down!

RLJ

BREAKING DOWN

(Herndon, Virginia)

Physically, I feel perfectly OK... mostly in the open spaces inside my mind!

My body, though, is falling apart like a calcium statue drowning in water and sodium bicarbonate!

Being 57 years old sucks donkey snot... I have friends dropping dead around me like rocks off a cliff!

And to make things worse... I think I actually saw Death pacing the floor in my bedroom last night!

RLJ

A STAKE FOR AFTER THE FUNERAL

Sometimes, after a man dies, you have to kill him again!

If you don't kill him a second time there will be hell to pay!

So, be ready, with... A Stake For After The Funeral!

PSA

A STAKE FOR AFTER THE FUNERAL

(BANGOR, MAINE)

Petra Alexandra cried hard and long as she sat on the first row pew.

Her husband of 30 years was lying in state on the high platform behind the preacher.

 He was murdered 3 nights ago... dragged into a dark alley, his throat was ripped open and he was drained of his blood!

The funeral ended, all of the mourners left and Petra was left alone to... take the wooden stake and hammer out of her purse and drive it deep into her husband's cold heart!

PSA

FIRE IN THE BLOOD

The horror tales from centuries past are legion!

Some of these recountings are penned and some are spread by mouth.

There was a frightful time of dragons and magic and knights and witches...

They coexisted like enemy's bees and wasps!

In this example, the long suffering horror violently ended with a little...

Fire In The Blood!

WKL

FIRE IN THE BLOOD

(Oldham, Lancashire County, England)

The old tyme horror tales goes... She was called Evil Queen Bardsley by the fear ruled residents in the County of Lancashire!

A real queen she was not... but, an awful witch she was, indeed, and she demanded much of them!

One such demand, on the first day of every year, was the blood of a virgin to bathe in to renew her youth!

She never saw it coming when the residents rebelled that January morning with flasks of DRAGON"S BLOOD instead... her death screams were beautiful music that day!

WKL 

JEWEL STEEL MEETS HUMAN FLESH

I am Umeko Tan Uno and I am seeking revenge to bring honor to my family!

I know who must die tonight to fulfill my quest!

And, it is finally time that...

Jewel Steel Meets Human Flesh!

UTU

JEWEL STEEL MEETS HUMAN FLESH

(Los Angeles, California)

I called my mother thirty minutes ago to let her know I had some profound news for her to digest!

I finally found the human Oni who murdered father two years ago... and I'm at his front door right now!

I have father's Wakizashi in my right hand and my left hand poised to knock on the door to bring his murderer to me!

He has to die... he cannot get away from his version of an honor murder... for mom and me... father's ancient sword must taste human blood tonight!

UTU

THE FIBRE SYNDROME

Just because a disease is poorly understood,

Does that mean you can't contract it?

This is the beginning of a tale of bloody horror,

Rooted in the belief by the patient that she is suffering from...

The Fiber Syndrome!

WMW

THE FIBER SYNDROME

(Carolina Beach, North Carolina)

Maxine Moore has tried to convince her doctor that she has a nasty case of Morgellons Disease!

She sees the itchy, ugly, multicolored strings of fiber growing from the skin on her arms and face!

Why her doctor doesn't see what she sees, and feels, is making her question his credentials!

Today she will make him believe her because she has cut open the skin on both of her arms with her paring knife... and he will see the fibers, now!

WMM

THIS SURGICAL PROCEDURE

No matter who,

Or what you are,

When comes the time to fix an ailment...

Times might suddenly become very surreal.

Case in point?

Enter... This Surgical Procedure!

WMK

THIS SURGICAL PROCEDURE 

(Atlanta, Georgia)

Tomorrow is the big day for me... I have to go to my friend, Dr. Arlene Melrose, for back surgery.

Arlene doesn't know it yet, but I am a 1,000 year old immortal who feels no pain... and who stopped aging at 25.

I have experienced it all, from crazy ancient Egypt to modern day wacky Georgia... I was even a captured slave for a few years!

She likes me... and has insisted on straightening my back, from a hundreds years old injury... and, even I don't know what she will find in me when she cuts me open!

WMK

WHEN A KILLING IS NOT A MURDER

I am Ben Larsen.

I am a hunter of men who are no longer men.

They are turned men who have died and come back re-animated.

And they murder the living for sport... and food.

I am a killer, too.

But do you what to know When A Killing Is Not A Murder?

BSL

WHEN A KILLING IS NOT A MURDER

(San Antonio, Texas)

It is long since been written, in the biblical 6th commandment, that "Thou shalt not kill!"

But, if one commits a homicide of someone who is already undead... did he actually murder?

That was the moral question that made my stomach hurt during the first 13 executions I made!

But, seeing the results of the bloody carnage that vampires leave unchecked drove the morality out of my soul... and now killing is not murder!

BSL

DEAD MAN'S MEALS

Every man does not taste the same!

RAL

DEAD MAN'S MEALS

(Cottage Grove, Oregon)

You know, there one great thing about being an undead member of the vampire society!

I don't have to eat traditional food and I don't have to drink water... never hungry or thirsty!

But eat and drink I do have to do... blood meals... of which my twisted body has been turned to do!

I can't be poisoned, and disease can't infect me... and drug addicted blood always has that tingle that tickles my tongue as it goes down smoothly!

RAL

A WOLF IN THE MUD (AN EXCERPT)

How quickly do some humans bond with an animal?

It can be real fast.

Consider the take of the young lady in this tale.

And, imagine the horror she felt when she discovered she actually had... 

A Wolf In The Mud!

AWW

(TUCSON, ARIZONA)

A WOLF IN THE MUD  (AN EXCERPT)

....The big puppy was a whimpering ball of drenched fur and sticky mud when Sheila Toth found it last night.

The shaking dog had been washed into the ditch on the side of he road during the flash thunderstorm.

She heard it as she was walking to her car after work yesterday... now she has a baby animal at home!

Tomorrow, she will take it to the vet... and she will discover that what she thought was a dog is actually a young wolf!...

AWW

DEATH MAKES A PROMISE

Death rarely visits the young!

The young are usually not they who are about to die.

But the old who are about to die?

For them, death may well come sooner to take them away.

And rarely, things are so bad that...

Death Makes A Promise!

SWW

DEATH MAKES A PROMISE

(Houston, Texas)

The old man is going to die... and the nurses at the hospital all know it will happen very soon!

They take care of him in 24 hour shifts... and have watch him deteriorate like an old mushroom!

One of the nurses, June, knows something the other nurses do not know... she is actually an angel of death!

She was called forth by the dying man... to take him away to the world beyond... to end his misery... and, she has promised him it will be painless!

SWW

SHARK BAIT

Hey, do you know some can breath fresh water?

And, that they often swim inland into rivers and other bodies of water?

That means the next time you decide to take that swim off your dock,

Death might be swimming with you!

Making you... 

Shark Bait!

WKM

SHARK BAIT

(Miami, Florida)

Six year old Samantha is having a grand old time sitting on her dad's dock, as usual.

She's in heaven when she's dangling her feet over the side, barely splashing them on the surface of the cool water.

She hopes to see another cool Manatee drift by so she can toss some bread crumbs at it.

Why hasn't her father warned her about the hungry 15 feet long Bull Sharks sharing this water, too!

WKM

SUNSET AT THE COW'S BLOOD BAR

Albert Owsley thought his luck with women had turned for the good.

Her name was Ashley.

And, she seemed into him.

Little did he know that she wanted more from him than he could ever know.

They meet tonight at... Sunset At The Cow's Blood Bar!

ALO

SUNSET AT THE COW'S BLOOD BAR

(Paramus, New Jersey)

I gave her my number to give her my time and all I got was painful teeth gouges in my neck!

She called me soon after we met and asked me to meet her at the Cow's Blood Bar, after dark!

Where is that place... I soon found out... deep downtown in the seediest part of this bustling city!

It is amazing how a woman with a beautiful face can lure you to a dark dark place where it's not cow's blood on the menu for the night!

ALO 

MORE THAN A SERVICE ANIMAL

The pure horror of the short lifespan of most dogs is too much to bare for some people!

Here is an example of the horror!

In this story, Brindle is...
More Than A Service Animal!

SAE

MORE THAN A SERVICE ANIMAL

(Fayetteville, North Carolina)

A very sad Palmer James has been best friends with his Great Dane, Brindle, for six years.

They are traveling buddies and friends... he is more than a service dog... and Brindle might as well be a big lap dog.

Palmer has never put Brindle on a leash because Brindle is wise and as gentle as a spring breeze.

Unfortunately, Brindle is already an old man at this impossible age... and who is going to look after Palmer when Brindle is gone!

SAE

ACCOUNTING FOR THE HORROR

The midnight hour has come again,

The Witching Hour,

And it is now time to give an...

Accounting For The Horror!

RLJ

ACCOUNTING FOR THE HORROR

(Herndon, Virginia)

Just how many billions of people populate this spinning ball of life called earth... who knows?

One thing is for sure... there are billions of horror stories out there attached to their souls!

This horror blog has not even scratched the surface of the horror heap of frightful stories!

Wait a second, another horror account just appeared for your perusal... and if is scary, indeed!

RLJ

PARANOID DELUSIONAL WITH A RIFLE IN HIS HANDS

He is rich!

He has everything he wants!

But his mind is not right!

And sometimes his delusions are as vivid as reality!

And, he has an arsenal in his basement!

And, he has enough ammunition to supply an army!

And, tonight his mind is really over the edge!

He is... Paranoid Delusional With A Rifle In His Hands!

RLJ

PARANOID DELUSIONAL WITH A RIFLE IN HIS HANDS

(Beverly Hills, California)

Matt Smith is trying real hard to listen to the basketball pregame show for tonight's big contest!

He is ready for hours of fun... if he can distance his mind from what he believes is going on outside his window!

The gunshots in his head sound like popcorn in a theater lobby... "What the hell is wrong with these people?" He screams out to no one!

Matt slinks down in his couch, tries to relax, clutches his Sig Sauer MCX closer to his chest... you know, in case THEY break in, and stares at the unplugged TV!

RLJ

ARE TWO BRAINS BETTER THAN ONE

What happen to a girl when she discovers why there is another voice inside of her mind?

Why, she asks herself... 

Are Two Brains Better Than One?

RLJ

ARE TWO BRAINS BETTER THAN ONE

(Montvale, New Jersey)

My name is Angel Jones and I am always the smartest girl in the crowd I am in.

I am overtly so intelligent because I have two brains inside my sixteen year old skull.

I figured out on my own that my body has Fetus in Fetu... and the fetus has always talked to me!

We are nine years old now... and my twin brain inside of me wants to exert itself... and it has decided it wants out of my head!

AKJ

THE DEATH OF A PLANET OF ONCE PROUD PEOPLE (AN EXCERPT)

If the sun had eyes, it would avert its gaze from planet earth!

The dirty evil emanating from the planet is not worth the time!

RLJ

THE DEATH OF A PLANET OF ONCE PROUD PEOPLE  (AN EXCERPT)

(Planet Earth, in near future)

...Walking on the degraded ground of a once proud horror world is as sad as it gets!

There were days when the future looked bright, indeed... until man destroyed himself!

With his insane rhetoric, his guns and his explosions, and his loathing self-hatred...

The horrific end came to this horror world much sooner than it ever should have!...

RLJ

TO MURDER A PLANET (AN EXCERPT)

It is going to happen, eventually!

In time, there will only be the crazy ones left with their weapons!

They will have killed off everyone else!

And, then what?

RLJ

TO MURDER A PLANET (AN EXCERPT)

(What is left of planet earth in a future time)

Earth was a world populated by many war obsessed humans who loved their guns and bullets!

They were possessed with the obsessive desire to own personal weapons of mass destruction!

Inevitably, the populations murdered enough of themselves that the balance of nature stepped in!

And now, earth is a smoldering ball of black smoke, scorched earth, burning oceans and death... and these humans continue to hold onto their weapons!

RLJ

GUNS IN THE HANDS OF MADMEN

A smart-ass will say, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Well, this smart-ass writer counters that with... 

"People with guns kill people! 

Take away their guns and how will they kill with a gun?"

What an awful dilemma politicians and their gun laws have put us all in!

Who protects the innocent?

RLJ 

GUNS IN THE HANDS OF MADMEN

(Herndon, Virginia)

Animals kill other animals... and occasionally their own kind!

The reasons might be for food, for defence, the protection of its young and rarely just for the thrill!

Instinct is the driving reason... for animal violence... what then is the reason humans murder each other?

Today is the worst day of domestic violence in American history... in goddamned gun crazy Florida... and another awful man with guns blazing provides the horror!

RLJ

P.S. -- Reality is becoming worse than the imaginary!

You can't make this horrible shit up!

Something has got to be done about this gun/terror/madness!

Everybody has a goddamn gun... and some of them are CRAZY!

RLJ

THE TASTE TEST (AN EXCERPT)

The fear of an agonizing death is a terrible thing to anticipate.

And when that particular fear is associated with food... that is not good.

But, that fear is real!

Especially, when one has to take... The Taste Test!

RLJ

THE TASTE TEST  (AN EXCERPT)

(Shallotte, North Carolina)

...One day, a long time ago, a Native American man was so hungry he could eat anything!

Foraging through the trees only revealed some strange green pebble sized fruits on vines today!

He has faced the dilemma before him before... eat a few of them and hope he does not die!

  He gathered a handful of them, sat on the ground, said a prayer to the gods around him, whispered some words to his dead wife and the began to eat...!...

RLJ

ANTS ON THE COUNTER (AN EXCERPT)

The one thing that Teddy Arnold  hates more than the sunlight is...

Ants On The Counter!

RLJ

ANTS ON THE COUNTER  (AN EXCERPT)

(Cedar Grove, North Carolina)

...Where did all of these ants on my kitchen counter come from?

The marble is clean and I don't know of any cracks behind the splash guard.

I didn't leave any food particles from last night on the counter, but... oh yea, now I remember.

The blood of my victim was warm and metallic and... sweet... and the ants know it as well as I do!...

TLA

YOU'LL MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE

Some siblings cannot get along for any reason.

Even the wishes of a dying parent will not resolve their issues.

Maybe that parent should threaten them with...

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone!

WNW

YOU'LL MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE

(Temple, Texas)

Mae Walker reminded her three squabbling adult children that they needed to stop their arguing.

She lay there on her deathbed, her life slowly ebbing away, wishing her children would get along.

Hell, it seems, is right here in her bedroom with her... and she is ready to exit to a peaceful place.

Perhaps, she mused with her still sharp brain, they'll simply bury her without fuss and let her spirit simply rest in peace!

WNW

CANNED GOODS

If you are a lone survivor and lonely and hungry,
And all you have to eat are goods in cans,
How do you open those cans without the proper tools?
Allen Lennon found out how,
And now he can live off of... Canned Goods!

AEL

CANNED GOODS

(Cookeville, Tennessee)


I thought I would starve to death in the apocalypse because all of the perishable foods have perished!
The supermarkets were long since picked clean of nearly everything before the people began to die off!
But, there are plenty of canned goods available... even though I can't find one can opener!
Thank god I found that survival guide that showed me the easy way to open any can... without a goddamn can opener!

AEL

THE MIDNIGHT HORRORS

It is midnight hour again...

As it is with each 24 hour cycle.

Don't you feel the most alive,

Or the most dead,

When you reach this hour of... The Midnight Horrors?

WWA

THE MIDNIGHT HORRORS

(Harper's Ferry, West Virginia))

Don't you just love the midnight, when the birds are asleep and the cats are stalking them?

When the earth has cooled and the ghost mist rises up from the peat... and the dead arise!

When witches brew and garlic closes its cloves... and shadowmen travel to the dead side!

Ah, the moon is very high, and as the werewolves bay at the silver dollar in the sky, at the time of ...The Midnight Horrors!

WWA

IN THE DARKNESS OF HER BEDROOM (AN EXCERPT)

The Horrorwalker is presently making another clandestine appearance.
This time it has chosen a young lady in Texas to visit.
It is a dark and stormy night!
This is the perfect time for horror to become real.
And there she sits,
Reading from a book of horror reality,
In The Darkness Of Her Bedroom!

ALP

IN THE DARKNESS OF HER BEDROOM  (AN EXCERPT)

(Texarkana, Texas)


...The lights are out... probably the result of a lightning strike on an area transformer, or something.
Janet Littlefoot sat on top her bed, her back to the headboard, the darkness cut open by the small flashlight in her left hand.
The pages of the large hardback book in her lap glowed as they reflected the light... to eerie effect.
Lightning flashed outside her bedroom window again, illuminating the huge shadow figure standing at the far left corner darkness... she knew what it was... as she continued to read from the huge tome it placed in her hands!...

ALP

HORROR DAYS AND HORROR NIGHTS

Horror days and horror nights...!

WMW

HORROR DAYS AND HORROR NIGHTS

(Sully Iowa)

As you know, there are 50 states of horror... name them all from Alaska to Washington!

See the horror in the south, horror in the north, horror in the west and horror in the east?

In the cool of the night or in the heat of the day, horror mischief happens... good and bad!

Follow the horror.... here and there... from state to state... and try not to panic when the Horrorwalker pays you your frightening midnight visit!

WMM 

A SHORT BUCKET LIST

Someone I loved died yesterday!

He is gone of mind and body!

I will miss him, all so much!

And I am now thinking about me!

I am old and hobbled and... oh my God!

I need to make... A Short Bucket list!

ELL

A SHORT BUCKET LIST

(Champaign, Illinois)

Tonight, before I go to bed again, I will once again pray for immortality most elusive!

I don't ever want to die... but, tomorrow my body is almost sixty years old and I'm afraid.

Things on my body are already breaking down... the feet, the wrists, the eyes, the ears!

And the liver spots started appearing on my arms a month ago... I better do something important real fast or I am headed straight to obscurity!

ELL

SCARED STRAIGHT (AN EXCERPT)

You better be sober when you get home,
Late at night after hours of drinking at the bar,
Because something waiting for you in your bedroom might leave you...
Scared Straight!

RLJ

SCARED STRAIGHT  (AN EXCERPT)

(Midlothian, Virginia)

...Jen Bowser was sober on the way to the bar!

Later that night, Jen Bowser was pissy drunk in her car as she drove toward home!

There she goes, a time bomb of mass destruction, delusional behind the wheel!

Tonight, she does not know it yet, she has a date with horror... awaiting her in her bedroom... in the form of the Horrorwalker, to scare her straight!...

RLJ

NOISES IN THE ATTIC

What better use for a housecat than investigating the...

Noises In The Attic!

FOL

NOISES IN THE ATTIC

(Portland, Maine)

Up in the attic, above my head, is the space between the roof and ceiling... where the sounds lived!

Last night, when they began to bang about and chatter, I decided to send Millie up there to get them!

I thought the sounds were made by vexing squirrels... and my tabby would chase them out of there.

There was a loud struggle, and then eerie silence, before Millie returned... with those bloody little hands in her mouth.

FOL

MIDNIGHT CRUISING

One of the facts of life that might never change about young people is...

Late night food runs to quell late night hunger attacks.

But, for the ones who are looking for food of another kind?

That is when you do a little... Midnight Cruising!

RLJ

MIDNIGHT CRUISING

(Lansing, Michigan)

The thoughts of Marty Sands were single focused tonight as he cruised the low lit neighborhood.

Leaning back in his bucket seat, low-rider-style, he slowly scanned the streets and houses for strays.

Marty is not looking for animal strays, no indeed, he is on the lookout for tasty human strays.

The ones who are cracked-out, or are meth-heads, taste the best because they are already full of tingly 

spicy extra stuff!

RLJ