A BLACK MOON RISES

Tonight heralds another Black Moon rising!

And by the next morning some people hope they will still be alive!

The periodic appearance of the Black Moon means bad things to some people!

Tonight, they will confront their fears as... A Black Moon Rises!

RLJ

A BLACK MOON RISES

(The United States of America)

So far, the last Black Moon Rising has yet to cause the coming of The Apocalypse!

It is said that if two new moons occur in the same month, real hell will come to the earth!

The world did not come to an end in March of 2014... the last rising of a Black Moon!

But one rises tonight... and Asia and Australia will have a Black Moon Rising on Halloween of 2016... and we will see all what happens then!

RLJ

STALKERS OF THE APARTMENT TERRITORY

When Sarah Compton sleeps at night,

Snug in her comfortable queen size bed,

She is absolutely not aware of the bloody carnage happening around her.

And when she awakens in the morning,

Greeted by her gentle puff ball of a cat pawing at her face,

She is still not aware that Marlowe is one of the...

Stalkers Of The Apartment Territory!

RLJ

STALKERS OF THE APARTMENT TERRITORY

(Hutchinson, Kansas)

Marlowe the House Cat is patrolling the wild peaks and valleys that occupy the clean apartment!

He roams free through three bedrooms, the kitchen, the bathroom and the living room!

He is completely aware of the arcane darkness of the midnight hour... and now is the time to protect his territory!

While his sweet smelling female human sleeps, Marlowe will stalk and pounce upon and eat the dangerous prey that also stalks the dark apartment tonight!

RLJ

MY NIGHTMARE BRAIN

My grasp on reality is not always real.

Especially when it is filtered through... My Nightmare Brain!

ELE

MY NIGHTMARE BRAIN

(Leesburg, Virginia)

I thought I was asleep and running for my life in the dream world... but, I wasn't!

I determined that I was actually wide awake and running for my life in a horrible daydream!

That is until the snarling monster caught up to me and slashed my back with its sharp claws!

I was a dead man, until I remembered that, 'Oh yea, I'm in that nightmare dream loop again,' and I'll just have to suffer my nightmare brain again until I really awaken!

ELE

NO EXCUSE FOR MAKING ME KILL YOU

Nobody,
But me,
Really knew what was going on behind the closed doors of my bad marriage!
But in the end,
When it all really went went down to hell,
There was... No Excuse For Making Me Kill You!

LOS

NO EXCUSE FOR MAKING ME KILL YOU

(Charlotte, Virginia)

Twenty minutes ago, Lola Sandburg was forced to make the most profound of decisions!

Afterward, she concluded that nobody would ever believe her excuse for killing Dean!

She did call her mother, but she hanged up the telephone when her mother started praying for her.

The rope around her neck is tied tight to the high beam above... and she can now hear the cops in the distance.

LOS

INSIDE THE HORROR VECTOR (AN EXCERPT)

(crystalpineshorrorvector.blogspot.com)

You, horror reader, will soon enter Crystal Pines, North Carolina!
This small hamlet, located in the center of the state, is not on any map!
This town is a horror vector... a place where humans and horror coexist as normal!
The inhabitants believe they live their lives as regular people!
And... the horror and the terror and the weird is normal to them!
But, ever so often an outside is allowed to enter Crystal Pines.
Then all hell breaks out... Inside The Horror Vector!

RLJ

INSIDE THE HORROR VECTOR  (AN EXCERPT)

(Crystal Pines, North Carolina)

The ghosts of thousands of men, women and children haunt the dark corners of this mossy town!

Actually, there is an old time racial pall that hangs over all of North Carolina's rich black soil!

Like the thick morning mist that stagnates among the Tobacco Plants, it chokes the living with the past!
Inside the horror vector resides stories of horror, in black and white, that will make a man cry... in terror, or in horror!

RLJ

THE SILVER CROSS

Mary Sanders wanted nothing more in life than to cause a death!
Her husband was murdered a few weeks ago!
His throat had been ripped out of his neck!
His blood had been drain from his body!
And, he had been decapitated!
Oh, she knows who murdered him and drank his blood!
And now all she wishes for is one meeting with... The Silver Cross!

RLJ

THE SILVER CROSS

(Vienna, Virginia)

...The secretive life of the international occult hitman known as "Silver Cross" is an extreme mystery!

He is unknown by given name, but if you need his service he might appear before you to fill your need!

God help you if you are ever his target... even if you happen to be a member of the evil undead!

Vampire, what vampire... if you have the cash, and the will for the horror to come, "Number One" could track down Satan and kill him!...

RLJ

THE HALLOWEEN CURSE

Seamus Finnegan continues to believe that he is cursed...

Even 135 years later!

How else did he one day awaken trapped inside this marble tomb!

He is entombed inside this supernatural prison!

And, he still does not know why.

All he has to look forward to is... The Halloween Curse!

SAR

THE HALLOWEEN CURSE

(Bangor, Maine)

...Halloween is coming and the anticipation is literally killing me.

 I am cursed and my punishment is to be trapped in this dark tome all year long!

That is... until Halloween night, at the midnight hour, where I am free for one hour!

I barely have time to commit one act of evil mayhem before I am sucked back inside my prison... to wait the unbearable wait, again!...

SAR

OLD BURIED SECRETS

Stand in the center point of the graveyard.
Get down on your knees.
Place your ears close to the ground and listen carefully.
Can you hear it down there beneath the grass?
What is that sound down there?
It is the arcane sounds of... Old Buried Secrets!

ASC

OLD BURIED SECRETS

(Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts)

You believe what you want to believe, when you are alive and kicking...

Because when you are dead and buried all opinions no longer matter!

 Oh, to be able to claw your way out from your grave and do it all over again...

As you have tried, but cannot do because the coffin lid is too heavy and you are buried too deep!

ASC

THE TRUE MEANING OF HORROR (THE NEXT POINT)

As a writer,

And as a black man,

I cannot ignore the realities of the black-experience existence around me.

So, dear reader...

I will continue to inject my personal  take on social horror from time to time.

True horror, 

For many black Americans,

Comes to us as hot death out of the barrel of a police gun!

And, 

I MUST write about it!

RLJ

THE TRUE MEANING OF HORROR  (THE NEXT POINT)

(Herndon, Virginia)

I am a black man living in a country so advanced, yet so backward, at the same time!

The social order in the country of my birth is so fucked-up that men like me fear for our lives!

The true meaning of horror for me is a reality of always fearing I might take a police bullet today!

I carry no weapon, I take no illegal drugs, I embrace my nerdy education... and, regardless of all that, I am still a black man horrified of the many ways I can die in a 24 hour period of time!

RLJ

BAYING TO THE MOON

The full moon calls to its subjects on the surface of the earth!
The result can be full moon weirdness and horror!
But things can get very dangerous when they come out of the darkness.
You know, they who are driven to bloodlust while... Baying To The Moon!

ELL

BAYING TO THE MOON

(London, Kentucky)

The sound is unmistakable... it is a howling, doleful and loud, calling to the light from the moon above!

The high silver orb of myth and fiction, of reality and non-fiction, calls to those who call to it!

Does the howler ask the moon for direction... or, for food... or, for the impetus to hunt a more tasty target tonight?
Yes, it asks those questions and more... like, for example, when do the werewolves come back to us to join the glorious human hunt?

ELL

THE CAUSE OF THE MOST DAMAGE

Horror,

The human kind,

Is... 

The Cause Of The Most Damage!

RLJ

THE CAUSE OF THE MOST DAMAGE

(New York City, New York)

One of the definition caveats of the word horror is... an intense feeling of disgust!

Whether the feelings are about blood, gore, terror or fear... that's disgusting!

Is it the big bad feral monster hidden in your dark bedroom closet that causes the most terror-cum-horror?

Or, is it the... let's stop playing games here... it is the horribly damaged in the brain cells humans who cause the most horror carnage!

RLJ

REALITY IS WHERE TRUE HORROR RESIDES

As horrible as horror fiction can be,

It is inside the nasty gut of horror nonfiction where you will find that...

Reality Is Where True Horror Resides!

RLJ

REALITY IS WHERE TRUE HORROR RESIDES

(Indianapolis, Ohio)

The horror story writer is listening to the news on the radio in the background of his den.

His fingers are hovering over the keyboard of his ancient +TOSHIBA laptop computer as he gasps as what he is hearing.

The amazing report is about an abducted woman in an Ohio town who managed to call the cops, from inside the horror house, for her rescue.

"How do I compete with real horror stories," He asked himself is a sad whisper. "I can't make up shit to compare with real life human horror!"

RLJ

ANOTHER PEROXIDE WASHDOWN

An expert can always tell when a murder scene has been scrubbed!

And if that expert is a policeman, he is obviously on the hunt for the culprit!

This is a clip from the tale of that hunt!

This expert policeman knows this is not just... Another Peroxide Washdown!

WMA

ANOTHER PEROXIDE WASHDOWN

(Odessa, Texas)

Detective Jacks swabbed a sample of the pinkish liquid soaked in the bedroom carpet.

The wet spot was near the bedroom window, as usual, and was about the size of a person.

The detective already knew what he was looking at... a peroxide washdown of a bloody spot.

And Jacks knows the murderer... and Jacks has been chasing him for a year... and Jacks is getting closer... and Jacks will pour a little "peroxide" on the murderer when he catches him!

WMA

DOG SICK

Postulate that certain members of the undead actually can succumb to illness.
What can a creature like that do to help itself if it is... Dog Sick?

ESL

DOG SICK

(Charleston, South Carolina)

Which doctor does a 100 year old vampire go to when it comes down sick with something?

Its last victim cut it with a knife before it drank her blood... and later it grabbed a cloth to cover the wound on its face.

As the burning of the substance on the bathroom washcloth began to affect its face, it noticed the bottle of silver nitrate solution on the sink.

Now, two nights later, a dog sick vampire is now vomiting blood and decaying from the inside out... who does a 100 year old vampire to to when it comes down sick with something?

ESL

DEATH DECIDES THE OWNERSHIP

You have to be a hard core man to "steal" from living dead!

Manfred is just that hard core!

Ask him, he will tell you the dead cannot possess items of the living!

But, sometimes Death Decides The Ownership!

WMM

DEATH DECIDES THE OWNERSHIP

(Abilene, Texas)

The last thing Manfred Harrison is going to do right now is open the front door to his apartment!

There is something frightening on the other side of the door that is pounding hard on the flimsy door!

Manfred knows what it wants... and he is not willing to give it to the monster on the other side!

The "Jewel Of Blackness" is possessed by Manfred now... he searched the world for it for 2 years... and he would rather die than give it up... even to an evil spirit that claims ownership... that will probable murder him in 15 minutes!

WMM

THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES (AN EXCERPT)

The time is the not so distant future!

The United States of America has been transformed by brutal civil unrest!

Politics caused the masses of the population to implode into antisocial madness!

The final result was for the country to explode into anarchy!
In a suffering country now split into absurd zones,
Allen Smith, and most of the populace, want their country back the way it was before!
In order to meet that end,
They will have to defy an oppressive government of pure evil horror!
They will have to take down... The House Of Burgesses!

ALA

THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES  (AN EXCERPT)

(The "N" Zone, Lower Louisiana)

...In the main time, here is the first copy of my book of the truth… 

Written from memory and transcripts we stole from the House Of Burgesses… 

About who we are… and what they are... twenty-two of us died horribly for this information… 

And I am sure they are preparing to attack the rest of the rebels viciously!...

ALA

DREAMS DO COME TRUE

Mary was born with the supernatural ability that,

According to interpretation,

Would make her a horrific monster to some.

Her parents know what she really is...

Their darling daughter!

They also know her deepest, darkest desire.

And as frighteningly awful as it is,

They have always reminded her that...

Dreams Do Come True!

RLJ

DREAMS DO COME TRUE

(Laredo, Texas)

Diminutive Mary Sullivan has always wished since childhood, deep inside her mind, that a foolish man would try to abduct her.

What good is being a Were-Claw Monster, always filled with the desire to kill, if you must always suppress your darkest desire?

Sure... slaughtering a wild animal under the brightness of the moon's radiance is cool and all... but, what is it like to kill a man?

Tonight, a night after her 31st birthday, it has happened... she is snatched off the street and thrown into the trunk of a car... and she cannot control her glee as her claws begin to grow!

RLJ

FOCUS ON THE BOOGEYMAN

Know the enemy you intend to exterminate!

Take note that your enemy comes in two different forms!

One form is decidedly more difficult to kill than the other!

Remember what you are there to do and don't lose your...

Focus On The Boogieman!

ELK

FOCUS ON THE BOOGEYMAN

(Sacramento, California)

Consider the context, werewolves are feral monsters who lose all humanity when transformed!

Therefore, when you hunt a werewolf in human form you have to approach it in a very different way!

Off the full moon, a werewolf is a human who is filled with hellish supernatural rage... and bloodlust!

Talk to him... listen to him... observe how nervous he is in the presence of silver... and be ready to exterminate what you perceive to be a man!

ELK 

AS DARKNESS FALLS

Things get really frightening out there in the Nevada hinterlands,

As Darkness Falls!

RLJ

AS DARKNESS FALLS

(Sheep Peak, Nevada)

Jimmy Jean Jones could now smack on the coppery lead taste in his mouth!

The bullets in the left side of his torso and his right leg must have disintegrated when they entered his body!

How long can a blood soaked man survive in the middle of the wilderness when he's been abandoned by his mafia abductors?

As darkness falls... and the howls of the not-so-distant wolves are getting closer to the blood in the air they smell... Jimmy Jones will soon have his questions answered!

RLJ

A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS (AN EXCERPT)

From the dark files of the BLOOD PLASMA horror blog,

Comes another vampire tale excerpt from a strange place over there.

Can a feral bloodthirsty vampire really hold on to its morality?

The answer is really... A Sad State Of Affairs!

WAM

A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS  (AN EXCERPT)

(Tacoma, Washington)

...So sad, so sad you were in the moment... really!

You were distressed and angry because you didn't mean to kill the man!

You only needed a little bit of his blood... just enough to get you through the night!

But as usual, when the plasma conveys the taste of human iron and life into your mouth, your instinct for murder overtakes your sanity!...

WAM

AMBER'S CAT (AN EXCERPT)

Cat guardians often let their cats out of the house every morning.

They allow their cats to roam the neighborhood.

They know their felines will always return by nightfall.

But, who knows what has happened to a cat out there.

And, in fact, is that actually your cat crawling in through the cat door?

An example of the impending horror is... Amber's Cat!

ALN

AMBER'S CAT  (AN EXCERPT)

(Bryan, Texas)

Amber's cat, Snuggles, has slowly indicated by its vicious behavior that it has gone rogue feral!

Amber has been noticing a growing growling aggression in her cat, but she chose to ignore it!

One month after the first hiss and scratch, Snuggles has dropped its namesake by now trapping her inside of her bedroom!

"OK," an exasperated Amber finally exclaimed this morning. "I don't know what the hell is going on with you, Snuggles... but you've got to die today!"

ALN

TOUGH TALK BEFORE THE HORROR BEGINS

You can insult the masses of people only so long before they turn on you!

You better think hard about all your... 

Tough Talk Before The Horror Begins!

RLJ

TOUGH TALK BEFORE THE HORROR BEGINS

(Herndon, Virginia)

Oh, you talk tough like you're a tough guy, don't you Mister political fool!

You pontificate loudly like an overly chatty chimpanzee sitting on a Sausage Tree!

Tough guy talk, about people you disrespect because you're so ignorantly disrespectful!

But what will you do when the people you terrorize eventually turn the horror back on you, come November?

RLJ

ROARING OUT OF THE GATE OF HATRED

The Presidential candidate paints a horrific picture of America...

Especially for the black Americans who, 

Says he,

Live in a war zone hellscape of uneducation, death and sadness!

That is what he says about the black experience!

This madness he vomits comes Roaring Out Of The Gate Of Hatred!

RLJ

ROARING OUT OF THE GATE OF HATRED

(Herndon, Virginia)

You have the right to vote your politics... use it!

Is there someone so vile you vow to never vote for?

Is the mental imagine of America ruled by a crackpot Presidential demagogue disturbing?

Then you better take back America from the "Know Nothings" come November... or, real hell will rise up to swallow us all whole!

RLJ