ALBA STARLING'S HORRORWALKER ENCOUNTER (AN EXCERPT)

Like countless people before her,

Alba Starling is about to experience real horror!

What is about to happen to her could have occurred anywhere...

But, this scenario will play out right here in her bedroom!

 Here is an excerpt from...

Alba Starling's Horrorwalker Encounter!

RLJ

ALBA STARLING'S HORRORWALKER ENCOUNTER  (AN EXCERPT)

(Richmond, Virginia)

...Another Sunday night is almost over and Alba Starling is about to hop into the bed.

She is supposed to be at work at 8:00 AM sharp Monday morning to meet with GEICO.

But, tonight... oh no, she is about to experience the surreal reality that is a Horrorwalker visit!

Time no longer matters when the horror confronts you in the darkness of your bedroom... and life as you know it ceases to exist!...

RLJ

THE SOUNDS OF A NIGHTMARE

Oh, how precarious is the sleep of a child.
Noises here, noises there... anything will keep them awake.
Now, about the frightening sounds outside young Paige Sanders' bedroom window?
Oh, these are... The Sounds Of A Nightmare!

RLJ

THE SOUNDS OF A NIGHTMARE

(Lumberton, North Carolina)

...The present time is seconds after midnight and 6 year old Paige cannot fall asleep.

There is something "Tap Tap Tapping" in the darkness of the outside of her window... again!

Is the scary sound coming from a branch off the big Oak Tree, or is there a monster out there?

This fear factor has lasted 1 year now... and, one day soon Paige will get up to confront the sounds... and that is the night the nightmare began!...

RLJ

CREEPY TIMES

Summer does not last forever.
Soon, the time of Autumn will roll in.
And with the season change will come the... Creepy Times!

RLJ

CREEPY TIMES

(Bangor, Maine)


Can you feel the tingle in the air tickling the short hairs on the back of your neck?
August is almost here, despite the hot weather, leading into the season of the full moon!
When comes the Sturgeon Moon, then follows the season of the wolf moons... and horror!
For some mortals, this is a time of death... for others, this is the time of monsters... and for more, this is the... Creepy Times!

RLJ

LEAVING THE PAST BEHIND (AN EXCERPT)

The conversation was brief!

The points were made... and that was that!

One of these two people, Sandy Dennis, is very hurt!

But, as she just found out, that is just too bad!

Better to start... Leaving The Past Behind!

SPD

LEAVING THE PAST BEHIND  (AN EXCERPT)

(Roanoke, Virginia)

...Look... that murder-thing you keep referring to happened a long, long time ago.

Nobody remember it today, nobody cares about it today, but I eliminated a monster!

Guilt is an emotion that lingers inside of a man who cares about the harsh deed he has done.

Me... I am completely satisfied, and content, in the fact that I drove that wooden stake through the evil heart of your bloodsucking father!...

SPD

DEAD MAN FIGHTS

Whether you want to,
Or not,
Sometimes you are pushed so far that you will have to participate in...
Dead Man Fights!

SAL

DEAD MAN FIGHTS

(Washington, DC)


The words your alpha leader told you are... There's always someone out there who can beat you!
And, as a self respecting night creature, you should want to meet that other person for a showdown!
You should want to prove to that person that your claws and your teeth are as sharp as his are!
You live in the midnight, under the silver moon, and you might as well prepare for... Dead man Fights!

SAL

INVERTED DARKNESS

How long can an undead bloodsucker live before he finally dies of boredom?
Sol Cully has reached that point in time in his existence!
Tonight will see the conclusion of a long time coming!
Here is here,
In the midnight hour,
Sitting in a very specialized doctor's office.
He is not alone, sitting in this... Inverted Darkness!

WSM

INVERTED DARKNESS

(Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)

...Hello everybody, my name is Sol Cully... and I'm 212 years old, as best as I can remember.
I'm here at this, my first, vampire inversion therapy session because I have come to the end of my long horror road.
I'm finally ready to let go of the darkness inside my soul... to quit the bloody madness... and if that means I must die to be free, so be it.
But, Dr. Millsap, I will listen to what you have to say tonight... but, if you can't help me, then, I am walking out into the sun later this morning!...

WSM

THE HOTTEST JOURNEY

Follow the wrong leader and you will find yourself on... 

The Hottest Journey!

RLJ

THE HOTTEST JOURNEY

(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Some people give up their rights and are followers!

Some people take those rights as their own and are the leaders!

Leaders lead the followers... but, the leaders do not always lead to a promised land!

There are some frightening leaders in America today.... and, the horror journey they are taking us on is likened to a trip through fiery hell!

RLJ

THE DREAM THAT NEVER FADES

"All I want is one frickin' good night sleep," 

Lamented the wide awake sleepyhead.

She is pissed-off angry as she complains about...

The Dream That Never Fades!

EKL

THE DREAM THAT NEVER FADES

(Sterling, Virginia)

A sweaty Tawny Brooks just woke up from still another fitful night of nightmare!

The trance hell where she is falling from a dream height unknown... to somewhere below!

She falls faster and faster, but she never hits the ground... as if there actually is a ground!

She has dreamt of falling into her dream abyss since she was a child... and unlike her lost childhood, the dream nightmare always stays the same!

EKL

MAKE HIM SUFFER

Another woman is attacked by a deviant criminal!

This woman is prepared to surprise and shock her attacker!

She takes matters into her own hand as she takes him down!

Now it the time to... Make Him Suffer!

WKK

MAKE HIM SUFFER

(Cleveland, Ohio)

The blaring rock music in the background wasn't nearly loud enough to suit its purpose!

It was turned up loud to cover the smashing violent carnage bloodying the walls in Apartment B-29!

Mary Jones is the resident of Apartment B-29... and she just won a vicious fight for her life from a home invader!!

The wild eyed gagged man tied to the metal kitchen chair stopped struggling 20 minutes ago... and he gave up trying to scream then, too... and now he will suffer so much more as Mary jabs the knife deep into his right thigh, again!

WKK

A SECRET GUN IN THEIR CLOSET

Things might not be quite right in a household when the two parties inside keep...

A Secret Gun In Their Closet!

AMM

A SECRET GUN IN THEIR CLOSET

(Fairfax, Virginia)

Last week, an angry Albert Marmond drove over the the local gun shop and purchased a handgun.

He also purchased a box of bullets for the gun... because you need bullets to use the gun on your enemies.

"What the hell is Albert going to do with that gun," his wife asked herself when she found it in the closet?

She doesn't want to find out... so, she took the gun and the bullets to the town police, gave the items to the sergeant and went back home... with the three bullets she kept for her own hidden handgun!

AMM

PAM LAMBERT KILLED A VAMPIRE (AN EXCERPT)

I am Mallory Lambert!

I lived in a different household than my sister...

And boy, do I have a tale to tell you about my her life!

Don't worry, I have her full permission to write this missive!

To simply say Pam Lambert grew up religious is not accurate!

Pam Lambert grew up in one of the most dogmatically fanatical religions in America!

She never brought in, though... there was too much craziness!

She was confused to the point that she lost her religion, totally!

But something recently happened to her...

That caused her to again question her horror reality!

And it happened when... Pam Lambert Killed A Vampire!

MAL

PAM LAMBERT KILLED A VAMPIRE  ( AN EXCERPT)

(Belton, Texas)

Pam Lambert's mother raised her in the Pentecostal church, with all that fire and brimstone craziness!

She never agreed with speaking in tongues, snake handling, religion based hatred... or, agreed with the existence of God!

She did not believe in ghosts, monsters, vampires, werewolves and ghouls, either... until she met her first vampire!

Oh, she killed it, before it could eat her blood, and now she has been forced to question her atheism... because, if vampires exist, then, does God actually exist?

MAL

OUT THERE IN THE DARK NIGHT AGAIN

It is midnight again, and once again people who like to live dangerously are...

Out There In The Dark Night Again!

RLJ

OUT THERE IN THE DARK NIGHT AGAIN

((Mahwah, New Jersey)

The witching hour approaches again.

Moon shadow monsters, both large and small, stalk the night darkness.

By instinct alone, they know when the right time for bloodshed aligns with the feeding time.

Many unfortunate people vanish without a trace during The Midnight Hour... why were they out there in the darkness, anyway?

RLJ

BLOOD SOAKED VANITY

When Melissa Manning was a young woman,

Her favorite pastime was admiring herself in mirrors.

She doesn't even bother anymore...

Looking for her long gone reflection is a moot point these days!

She can't even enjoy a little... Blood Soaked Vanity!

MAM

BLOOD SOAKED VANITY

(Maumelle, Arkansas)

The woman who was once Melissa Manning is quite pissed-off at this particular moment in time!

She finished her nightly kill a mere 60 minutes ago and she is now in the clean-up stage of the evening!

She has cleaned the blood off the walls, scrubbed the blood out of the carpet and disposed of the body!

Now, in the victim's bathroom, she is washing the blood from her face... and her anger and horror stems from the fact that, as usual, she still cannot see her face in the mirror!

MAM

TO THE NEXT CONVENTION

Before I went to the convention,

I thought I would watch a minute of it on the TV.

And then I discovered why I am simply off...

To The Next Convention!

ASL

TO THE NEXT CONVENTION

(Mentor, Ohio)

I wanted to stalk the Republican party convention tonight to drink some of the reddest blood around.

All the angry testosterone and angrier estrogen in that place is just the thing my ancient bones needed.

But then, I looked at the audience there on my TV screen and what I saw there made me to sad to go eat.

Zero diversity in the food source there... all stiff and bloated white blood... zero ethnic spice... I think I'll wait to haunt the Democratic convention!

ASL

IF YOU SEND A MAN TO WAR WHAT WILL HE BE WHEN HE GETS BACK

Famke Dietrich is still suffering from the shocks of her younger brother's crimes!
No matter how fucked-up he was by being sent to war over and over again...
He still cannot be forgiven for murdering all those people!
And here she is again,
Writing another letter to the President,
Asking him,
If You Send A Man To War What Will He Be When He Gets Back?

FCD

IF YOU SEND A MAN TO WAR WHAT WILL HE BE WHEN HE GETS BACK

(Fayetteville, North Carolina)

You know, it's a goddamn shame when you really think about what happened to Allen Arrowitz!

Like so many soldiers before him, he came back broken from the blackness of multiple middle-east deployments!

The army brought him back as a shell shocked horror and released him into the public without any psychological debriefing, at all!

And now, 6 months later, he has gone mad and used his training to murder 16 fellow Americans... and then to turn his AK-47 upon himself to end his life... and leave American politicians to pray to an imaginary God for help and understanding... AGAIN!

FCD

DREAMING ABOUT THE FOODS SHE CANNOT EAT

Everybody dreams about something as they sleep.

Take the case of Louisa Fleischmann.

She has been dreaming about certain things for over 200 years.

Today, she just finished... Dreaming About The Foods She Cannot Eat!

RLJ

DREAMING ABOUT THE FOODS SHE CANNOT EAT

(Newport, Rhode Island)

Louisa just woke up from her full day of deep slumber inside her well hidden, century old coffin.

Today, she dreamed of a time, centuries ago, when she dined on fine foods and drank rare wine.

She remembered, via dream, that she was once a human who enjoyed human company with her food.

That was a long time ago, before she could only feed off of blood... before she torturously began to dream of the food she can no longer eat!

RLJ

NO ALCHEMY FOR THE DAMNED

When a hot lead bullet shatters the soul from a warm body,

Then will man and monster know, again, that there is...

No Alchemy For The Damned!

RLJ

NO ALCHEMY FOR THE DAMNED

(Anywhere, United States of America)

I can see the souls of the dead rising up from the carnage of the destruction wrought by biased men of power!

I can smell the iron blood soaked ground leaked from flesh by base metal projectiles meant to kill!

There is not some metaphysical alchemy committed when lead meets flesh... converting life to death!

There is only horror and terror, in the night and the day, and... oops, there goes another soul of the dead rising from another smoldering body!

RLJ

FRESH MEAT

Dear diary,

I am writing my last entry on your impartial pages for the next week.

I have some traveling to do... where am I going?

If you allow me to write a little more on your clean white pages,

I will tell you about my forever quest for... Fresh Meat!

AZK

FRESH MEAT

(New York City, New York)

Now don't think of what I am about to tell you, dear diary, as too gross, but I know it is... 

I am on my way to take a tour of our world's war zones so that I can feed my gnawing need!

Procuring fresh dead bodies is almost impossible here in a living breathing New York City!

An immortal indestructible ghoul like me has to eat, and what better place to gather all the already pulverized human meat I need than across the modern day Middle East?

AZK

SMACKED RIGHT INTO THE DOOR OF LIFE

Lee Jones has skated through half of his life.
He has left a trail of mayhem behind him.
But, something happened to him yesterday.
And today, he has... Smacked Right Into The Door Of Life!

RLJ

SMACKED RIGHT INTO THE DOOR OF LIFE

(Richmond, Virginia)

So, you turned 30 years old yesterday... and now you're staring at yourself in the bathroom mirror!

Now all the smarmy shit talking and bad attitude of yesterday's youth suddenly is frightful remembrance!

You never thought you'd get here, did you... and you are now standing in all the bloody horror you created!

Everybody paces right behind the ravage of time and when you hit the 30 year old wall, well, you should have thought about this day years ago!

RLJ

SOMETHING REAL

How does one change a nightmare into... Something Real?

SWW

SOMETHING REAL

(Sterling, Virginia)

In my latest escapist feverdream, I was born of another mother of another color in another land.

All of the horrors of the killing and the murder and the mistrust and all the racism don't exist there.

I can fearlessly walk out into these streets because rogue monsters don't exist here in this reality.

The sun shines all day, the birds chirp all day, a gentle breeze always blows... and I think I simply won't wake up today!

SWW

ALWAYS FIGHTING FOR LIFE

Life and hope,

In a Horrorwalker World of horror,

Can be found all around you... if you look for it.

Like a surreally beautiful flower shining through the drab...

We all should be... Always Fighting For Life!

RLJ 

ALWAYS FIGHTING FOR LIFE

(Herndon, Virginia)

I took a break from the murderous depression on the news channels on my TV today.

I decided to go out into my back yard to get a bit of fresh air to clear my mind.

I felt like I wanted to crawl into an ant hole and disappear... before I was touched by nature.

One lone flower in a corner of the garden is strongly basking in the sun... to me, a symbol of what life is all about... always fighting for life even if you are alone!

RLJ

CRUISING THE STREETS IN MY CAR

Dear diary, I am about to get into my car and drive 5 miles to work.

As is the norm, every morning I write an entry in you before I go out.

I want my mother to read my last words if I die out there today.

There is a war out there against men like me... 

And I have no weapon to defend myself.

So, if I die in my car today by sanctioned gunshot death,

Remember, mom, the good old days... when I had so much fun...

Cruising The Streets In My Car!

SAE

CRUISING THE STREETS IN MY CAR

(ST. Paul, Minnesota)

I remember, not too long ago, when the highlight of my week was cruising the streets in my car!

Alone, or with my boys, I would show off my '67 Chevy and lap up the praise from the hot white chicks!

Then, sometime in the '80's, a government war of horror and intimidation was launched against men my color!

And now, the terror and the horror and the fear and the murdering can happen to a man my color when I go... cruising the streets in my car!

SAE

DEFINITIONS OF HORROR (AN EXCERPT)

The fear is real!

A certain kind of American is facing genocide!

The females of that kind are in mortal danger, too!

But, it is the men who are being erased from the planet...

One horrific death at a time!

This reality represents the... Definitions Of Horror!

RLJ

DEFINITIONS OF HORROR  (AN EXCERPT)

(Anywhere, The United States Of America!)

...Are you afraid to turn on your television in the morning because of the horrors you might see?

Are you too afraid to walk out of your house in the morning for fear of deadly human interactions?

Are you afraid to drive your car down the street because of the horror of who might shoot you to death  today?

Are you afraid of these horror questions... well, I have many more of these where the next one is worse than the last one!...

RLJ

THE GENOCIDE OF THE HUMAN RACE IS IN FULL EFFECT (AN EXCERPT)

They call themselves the QQQ.

Only they know where they come from.

But know this, they come from way out there beyond our solar system.

The 32 member crew of the solar ship QUAZXXPM are near the end of their 25 year long trek.

They are now finished observing this blue planet... studying its savage highest life form.

They have concluded that they do not need to invade this planet.

The chaos and horror these being inflict upon themselves is the stuff of nightmares!

The humans will murder themselves well before the QQQ go home and return in a century!

One of the QQQ murmured, "What a goddamn waste of nature!"  as they flicked off the observation screens and began to lift off of the moon!

RLJ

THE GENOCIDE OF THE HUMAN RACE IS IN FULL EFFECT  (AN EXCERPT)

(Mare Vaporum, The Moon Of Planet Earth)

The genocide of the human race is in full effect... and they don't even have to wait for the world to end!

The genocide of the human race is in full effect... the humans are actually murdering each other!

The genocide of the human race is in full effect... they could have easily reversed their horrible demise!

The genocide of the human race is in full effect... a little world wide psychotherapy could have saved them all!

RLJ

DEAD GRANDPA (AN EXCERPT)

It is obviously very difficult to accept a parent's death!

But eventually, you have to let the parent's spirit go.

Is it perverse nature, though, if you really do not have to let go?

What if you have the power to defy death?

Albert Rancic is living that nightmare every day!

Because, he is a... Dead Grandpa!

SAR

DEAD GRANDPA  (AN EXCERPT)

(Baton Rouge)

...I've been told that I talk a lot about death!

I'm well aware of how I might sometimes frighten the kids!

If only my daughter would let me die in peace, I would not be able to talk!

Just because you know a little Voodoo, that doesn't mean you have to use it!...

SAR

IN THE DARKNESS OF THE BARN

Fools dare to go into the darkness,

Without the light of day,

To discover arcane matters that can make you vanish...

Like you were never there!

This fool knows not to tempt fate that is...

In The Darkness Of The Barn!

RLJ

IN THE DARKNESS OF THE BARN

(Roswell, New Mexico)

I heard a noise in the corner of dad's dark barn... I thought it was a mouse!

There was no way in hell that I was going over there, in the dark, to inspect!

I've seen it 20 times in horror movies, when some poor idiot stupidly sacrifices himself to the horror!

No, not me... I'll come back in the morning, in the full light of day, with my shotgun... full of the confidence the sunlight provides!

RLJ

IN THE DEADEST HOUR OF THE NIGHT

What are you doing walking around in the woods at night?

Are you mad?

There are all kinds of dark things out there that want to eat you!

Don't you know they come out of the darkness...

In The Deadest Hour Of The Night?

WKK

IN THE DEADEST HOUR OF THE NIGHT

(Aberdeen, South Dakota)

In the deadest hour of the night... the blackness draws out scary things that scream at the moon!

These dark creatures draw strength and gall from light, reflected from that which makes the day!

The strong sunlight is their enemy... but, they are driven to the light, for light does represent life!

What is the light of life to creatures that can never can have a life in the light... other than to have the energy to hunt human prey?

WKK

FACTIONS

When us against them becomes the most dangerous game ever,

It is time to realize that all of them are a part of two,

Factions!

RLJ

FACTIONS

(Dallas, Texas)

The human beings of the horrorwalker world are now divided into two polar opposite factions!

Faction one believes they have the god given right to own an many guns and ammo as possible!

Faction two is appalled by guns and the humans who fetishize them... and they have had enough!

In the end, though, can those people without the guns affect those people with the guns pointing them at their heads... oh, horror defined!

RLJ

JESUS NEVER CARRIED AN AK-47

Few things on earth are more frightening than religious fanatics with assault rifles!

Fewer things on earth are more frightening than religious fanatics!

But they exist... the guns and the religion and the fanatics!

Come to think about it... Jesus Never Carried An AK-47!

RLJ

JESUS NEVER CARRIED AN AK-47

(Charleston, South Carolina)

In a horror world of suicide bombings, assault-like rifle gun violence and religious fanaticism...

People seem to always look toward Jesus for the answers to all of our human created miseries!

Peter Garrett, just another contemplative man, has finally come to his conclusion to this madness:

Jesus never carried an AK-47, therefore what the hell does he know about gun violence!

RLJ

DO YOU NOT SEE THE BUGS

Without the restraints, room 216 would be a bloody disaster!

According to the resident in the room, bugs are everywhere!

Unfortunately, she a danger to herself!

She is tied to the bed because of her delusions!

Lister to her now scream... Do You Not See The Bugs?

ELL

DO YOU NOT SEE THE BUGS

(Baltimore, Maryland)

The doctors have told Matilda a thousand times that the bugs eating her skin are not real.

Her mental disease is so severe that medication has no affect on her... so, the doctors talk to her!

Triamcinolone Acetonide Cream helps her actual psoriasis sores, but there is little help for the bugs!

"The bugs are not real, Matilda... so, please stop begging us to kill you," begged the nurse as she applied more cream to her tethered patient's right arm!

ELL

WHY DID I TEAR DOWN THAT DRYWALL

My wife wanted me to put up fresh drywall in the kitchen of our house.

We moved into the hundred year old house six weeks ago, 

And she is already making me work.

She conveniently went to her mother's for a 'family get together' while I did what I do.

And within the time space of two hours, 

I made a horrific discovery behind the greasy drywall.

Weeks later I am still asking myself...

Why Did I Tear Down That Drywall?

ENL

WHY DID I TEAR DOWN THAT DRYWALL

(Ferguson, Missouri)

Out behind the house, underneath the Oak Trees, lies the bodies of the murdered dead!

Some of them are over fifty-six years old and apparently there are even children out there!

You see, a former owner of my house murdered people from the neighborhood for many decades!

He buried the bodies out there, he left a note of confession behind the kitchen drywall... and I discovered the note, and I am a black man in this town, and I will never tell the secret to the police!

ENL