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RLJ



Tuesday, May 31, 2016

DEEP ROOTS


After you go to bed at night to retire for the day,
Do you ever ponder profound before you will yourself to sleep?
No?
It is a fact of life that world problems have been solved in this time.
Try it one night.
You might discover something about yourself,
Like,
You might tap into your brain's Deep Roots!

RLJ





DEEP ROOTS

(New Llano, Louisiana)


The brain of a man is a battered tree swaying in the sometimes horrific thunderstorm called life.
As the years roll by, leaves and branches and bark and stems are lost to the elements.
Good thing, then, that the resilient body of a man has the ability to stay alive against all odds.
And the brain's deep roots, some people call it the Soul, tells the man to gather his leaves and get the hell out of the storm!

RLJ


THE POWER OF THE HOOP


Come on, people... 
Don't you love it when you watch your fellow Americans, 
Having a grand old time partying hard,
Delirious from the adrenaline in their blood after a game seven?
 Oh my... The Power Of The Hoop!

RLJ





THE POWER OF THE HOOP

(Oakland, California)


The crowd is still dancing and celebrating hours after the basketball game is done and won!
The fireworks are blasting off the top of the arena shooting high into the dry heaven above!
This is California love for the sports icons many people across the land love to love... or, hate!
And later, when it is time to go home, people... that love you're feeling right now is the way it should always be, in this world of Horrorwalker horror!

RLJ

Sunday, May 29, 2016

A STILL BEATING HEART IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE



Fresh fish, 
Right out of the ocean, 
Is so delicious.
And for some people, 
Fresh fish offers more than simply a marriage to a frying pan.
Ask the young man standing on the fishing boat 1 mile off the shore!
He will tell you... A Still Beating Heart Is A Terrible Thing To Waste!

WLK





A STILL BEATING HEART IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE

(New Shoreham, Rhode Island)


Aaron Jackson has actually been a fisherman for 26 of his 31 years of life.
He is Rhode Island native... born and raised practically on the shore if the Atlantic.
His bloodline originates from oldest Europe... and his ancestry creates very special culinary needs.
The large heart in his right hand is still beating... and he tosses the carcass of the shark off the boat into the ocean... and he then takes a huge bloody bite of the delicious organ!

WLK 

NEAR TO DEATH BY SPORTS OBSESSION



The cloud of exhaustion has just faded from my eyes.
My blood pressure has finally reduced itself.
Now I must write these words of catharsis.
Words about why I'm... Near To Death By Sports Obsession!

RLJ





NEAR TO DEATH BY SPORTS OBSESSION

(Herndon, Virginia)


Oh, the horror... the horror!
I'm getting too old for this heart stopping NBA madness!
I'm gripping my heart as this Warriors vs. Thunder game has ended!
Oh my god... I'm practically murdering my soul, from the heart out, with this psycho sports fan insanity of mine!

RLJ

Friday, May 27, 2016

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, MOMMA




What single thing can bring a young man to the brink of insanity?
Well, young Timmy Jones is distraught about this question.
Something so wild happened to him last night that he has to has his mother...
What Does That Mean, Momma?

RLJ





WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, MOMMA

(Atlanta, Georgia)


If you ask Timmy Jones what real horror is, he would tell you about what happened to him last night.
He is still shell shocked as his 17 year old brain is clawing through the unknown madness that happened to him at the midnight hour.
Gorgeous Amy Ellen actually walked up to him and shockingly kissed him on the lips before she left the gymnasium... 
And Timmy, nerdy handsome inexperienced with girls Timmy, might as well have been shot through his heart with a bow and arrow by a real life Pokemon!

RLJ

OUT INTO THE MIDNIGHT


This is the tale about a psychotic man,
Who functions perfectly well in reality...
Until nighttime falls and he goes...
Out Into The Midnight

RLJ





OUT INTO THE MIDNIGHT

(Winchester, Virginia)


"Oh, what a day..." declaimed Maxwell the serial killer! "I made my greatest kill today!"
As he washed the blood and bile from his knives and saws, he shook in grizzled ecstasy.
After he finished cleaning, he tidied up the rest of his already immaculately clean kitchen.
He then sharpened his instruments of horror before retiring for the night, to dream of the next time... out in the midnight!

RLJ

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

LOST CHOICES



There is water all around Davis Freeman.
There is food all around... for one who knows what to look fore.
How did this man get himself into this wild predicament?
One sunken boat later and here he is making... Lost Choices!

DVF





LOST CHOICES

(Somewhere off the Broad River, Florida)


What will a man eat if he is so hungry his stomach feels like it is attacking him.
What will a man drink if he is so thirsty he feels like his mouth is filled with dust.
Study this civilized man... lost 20 days deep inside the Everglades... near death from starvation and exposure.
He has again come upon a life or death choice... eat the bug infested meat of the dead animal on the ground or drink the green water in the hole in the ground beside the carcass!

DVF

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

TEASING THE SHARK


What in the hell is with men who foolishly try to team the ocean?
And more so, those men who fool themselves against the waves?
What more to say about men who are foolishly... Teasing The Shark!

RLJ





TEASING THE SHARK

(Jaws, Hawaii)


Starland Jansen tracked the great white shark following him at the rear of his surfboard.
The animal is the same predator that he has been playing cat and mouse with for two years.
The massive animal has actually bitten a large chunk out of three of his boards.
"Now this is how you live your life," quote Starland again, salt water spray pelting his face, as he took a hard left toward the shore... leaving the shark frustrated again!

AME

Monday, May 23, 2016

THE HOUSE ON 2110 ARCTIC CIRCLE


The secrets of the neighborhood are better left as that... secrets.
Sometimes the inhabits of the neighborhood keep those secrets.
And... sometimes the realtors are the keepers of the skeletons in the closets.
What are the secrets of... The House On 2110 Arctic Circle?

RLJ




THE HOUSE ON 2110 ARCTIC CIRCLE

(Fairbanks, Alaska)


Just about every neighborhood across the land has that one questionable house that stays empty.
People move in, but it is only a short matter of time before they quietly abandon the home.
It's so weird that the inhabitants move away without making any fuss about why they are leaving.
But the hauntingly pasty face of the distressed child staring out of the unoccupied attic window tells the most about the secrets of the house at 2110 Arctic Circle.

RLJ

Sunday, May 22, 2016

THE YEAR OF THE MOSQUITO (AN EXCERPT)



The Horrorwalker visited Amanda Romero...
On a dark and rainy Northern Virginia night in May of 2016.
She will never forget that night of frights and revelations.
The tale of her personal encounter with the mysterious creature will be told at another time.
But the tale she was forced to read from the Horrorwalker's tome can be told now.
Still shaken, hours after the encounter, she finally put the words in her memory to paper.
And here, for your quick perusal, is a short excerpt... 
Here, in this place...
The Year Of The Mosquito!

RLJ






THE YEAR OF THE MOSQUITO  (AN EXCERPT)

(Citrus County, Florida -- A.D. 2066)


...Oh yes, child, there was a time, long ago, when it was safe to walk outside in the sunshine without the Protection Suits.
There was a time of teeming life, of electricity, of tourists, of places to buy food, of community... and then it all ended when the mutations began.
Yes, my grandchild, it is indeed true what you mommy told you about us being long since forgotten by our government and left down here to die off.
Nobody above the section of the Pest Free Wall above Florida dares to come down here and risk being infected by these... goddamn mosquitoes!...

AMR

Saturday, May 21, 2016

SIGNS AND SOULS


It was a simple option...
Read the words and save your life.
Too bad you do not understand... Signs And Souls!

RLJ





SIGNS AND SOULS

(Trenton, New Jersey)


How much can a man who cannot read learn in this modern horror world?
Actually, most everyone can read these days... how can you avoid the words on the signs?
Comprehension and context... now, there are two words that mean a lot to a reader of horror words.
Consider that as you take the words in this horror blog and... read the signs that may save your soul!

RLJ

Friday, May 20, 2016

BLOOD WINE



Oh, this is not humanity!
The effects of drinking to excess,
Day after day,
Has made Albert Walker vomit... Blood Wine!

ALW





BLOOD WINE

(New York City, New York)


You know, its the goddamn DT hallucinations that are the worse when I quit drinking!
The paranoia comes in at a close second... then comes the sweating and the vomiting!
Red red wine, it steals my soul and makes me become a monster zombie that blindly roams.
I would eat your brains, if it would make the Tremens go away... anyway, by three days from now, I'll be back on the streets blackout drunk again!

ALW

Thursday, May 19, 2016

A BLACK HOLE DREAM


Mary will eventually awaken.
But, she doesn't know that.
Right now she is having... A Black Hole Dream

EAL





A BLACK HOLE DREAM

(Santa Ynez, California)


Mary Allen is having that goddamn nightmare again... the one where she is endlessly falling down.
She is falling face upward, so she cannot see the rapidly approaching black abyss below her back.
But, as goes the lack of logic in dreams, she is actually looking at herself fall... from her thrashed bed.
Oh this is a fitful sweaty sleep, as she flails about like a drying fish, half crazed as she tries to catch her balance... hour after hour... in the most horrid dream a woman can have!

EAL

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

SHADE ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP


Impossible words, like... Shade On The Mountain Top!

RLJ





SHADE ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP

(Mt.Saint Elias, Alaska)


If a woman climbs to the top of the highest mountain and screams she wants to kill the world,
Would the world die because of the profound nature of her trek and her delusional presumption?
Margaret Hooper has climbed Mt. Saint Elias once a year for 21 years... and the world still exists!
Tomorrow morning, she begins this year's hellish trek... and will the world survive her declaration again?

RLJ

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

THE DARK TAO OF CONTROL


One principal of life is an unchangeable path.
Everyone alive must follow said path... no exceptions!
Unless... one delves into the underground horror of black magic.
One's life might still be forfeit if one decided to take hold of...
The Dark Tao Of Control!

RLJ





THE DARK TAO OF CONTROL

(Herndon, Virginia)


The mind controls the body!
The body affects the mind!
One thing the body and the mind cannot control and affect is... aging!
For that control, one needs the darkest black magic... and loss of all control!

RLJ

Monday, May 16, 2016

NIGHTTIME IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT


Dee Dee Marks loves to write poetry about her mortality.
Her writing is her secret way to vent, too.
She mostly writes about what it is like to live in the...
Nighttime In The Land Of Enchantment!

(DDM)





NIGHTTIME IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT

(Hobbs, New Mexico)


The night of moon and darkness is better than the day of sun and light.
I won't burn up in the darkness like a piece of Caesium in water in the daylight.
And my prey is so much easier to catch when they can't see me... but I can see them.
Give me the night over the day any time, because... I will die again in the sun, or I will exist in the night!

DDM

Sunday, May 15, 2016

THE SMELL OF THE GREAT OUTDOORS


It is now The Midnight Hour!
And, it is dark back there behind the house!
The woods out there is even scary in the day time!
And then there is... The Smell Of The Great Outdoors!

APJ





THE SMELL OF THE GREAT OUTDOORS

(Lumberton, North Carolina)


Out back behind the the old rotted toolshed, there where the border of the ever dark woods begins...
Scary noises and odd voices mix with the smell of the mist that hovers just above the decaying pine needles.
The brave times when Allen Jones dares to go back there, when the night is at its darkest...
The smell of the great outdoors is carried by something scary... and smelly... like wet iron and death!

APJ

Saturday, May 14, 2016

THE BALLAD OF MOSSY JOE (AN EXCERPT)



A long long time ago,
When the times were changing as the white man was coming,
All kinds of living things stomped around this swampy land.
This land was claimed,
And the claimants killed everything they did not understand,
And now all is forgotten as time has erased the memories.
But some things fought back.
And one such battle was chronicled in the long lost poem...
The Ballad Of Mossy Joe!

RLJ 




THE BALLAD OF MOSSY JOE  (AN EXCERPT)

(Lake Marion, South Carolina)


...Let me tell you how the bloody story goes!
Let me tell you who the gory story killed!
Let me tell you where the grisly story occurred!
Let me tell you about the times of the murders of Mossy Joe!...

RLJ

Friday, May 13, 2016

IN THE TIME OF THE WITCHING HOUR



As usual,
When the moon is high in the middle of the night,
Dark creatures prowl the darkness.
Tonight is Friday... In The Time Of The Witching hour!

SAC





IN THE TIME OF THE WITCHING HOUR

(Wichita Falls, Texas)


Well, its almost midnight again on another Friday night and Anne is ready!
The sleepy heads are snuggled tight in their beds, in their dark bedrooms, under their blankets and quilts!
The night owls are out there in the darkness seeking light and food and dancing... and they are many!
And so too is Anne out there in the dark... she who needs the midnight hour to energize her... and to provide cover for the hunt... in the midnight hour!

SAC

Thursday, May 12, 2016

ABOVE THE GENTLE WAVES


Alice should have left "It" on the white sand of the beach.
"It" really belonged under the surface of the ocean.
And now she knows that monsters really do exist.
"It" came from below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
But now, it lives Above The Gentle Waves.

AKJ





ABOVE THE GENTLE WAVES

(Holden Beach, North Carolina)


Alice Jones feels that she is one with nature when she strolls across sandy Holden Beach.
The ocean is so monstrously large ... so vast and wide... and the unknown is still out there hiding.
But ever so often, something blows in from "Off The Ocean" that gives up a secret or two.
And Alice is holding that something in her hands right now... holding something alive... not noticing the pair of alien eyes staring at from just above the gentle waves!

AKJ

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

I SAW A ZOMBIE TODAY


I am Rob Lindemann.
I have something on my mind that is burning me alive.
The question is...
Is there more than one definition of what a zombie is?
I don't know the full answer to that question!
All I know is this... I Saw A Zombie Today!

RLL





I SAW A ZOMBIE TODAY

(Mahwah, New Jersey)


I saw a zombie leaning against a building today!
It was standing on the corner of Elk and Cross... at the 7-11!
It had blood red eyes, raw scraped skin, tattered clothing and no shoes!
It was dead, man... even though it had a bottle of Thunderbird rotgut in its right hand!

RLL


Tuesday, May 10, 2016

THE RED COOKBOOK (AN EXCERPT)


Willie found the old cookbook way back deep in the old bookstore archives.
The soft leather-like cover of the book was amazingly intact... and very red.
And god all mighty, those mouth watering recipes!
He purchased that book with glee and lust.
Now, all he has to do is kill some ingredients for the recipes in...
The Red Cookbook!

WSM





THE RED COOKBOOK  (AN EXCERPT)

(Trenton, New Jersey)


...The  red cookbook was old and dusty and apparently the pages were some type of animal hide.
The recipes were simple and old school in the types of ingredients used to create the dishes.
 Red potatoes, red beans, red tomatoes, red rhubarb and red blood... simple ingredients.
And oh, the meats... good red pieces of meat... and some of the recipes called for the most forbidden meat... and you all know what that sweet meat is!...

WSM


Monday, May 9, 2016

A SPECIAL FOR THE OCCASION


Mary Lambert always has a weapon very near to her hands.
Nobody is going to get to her without paying a big price.
Even though she has a husband who is willing to protect her,
He is never going to be enough to ease her mind.
But under her pillow is... A Special For The Occasion.

DEL





A SPECIAL FOR THE OCCASION

(Baltimore, Maryland)


From out of a bear in a cave hibernation sleep, Mary heard the crash of something downstairs.
She bolted upright, coming to groggy awareness, and immediately elbowed Robert to wake him up.
She forced her resistant husband to investigate the kitchen where she knew the sound came from.
Before he opened the bedroom door, she handed him the fully loaded .38 Special she kept under her pillow... you know, just in case.

DEL

Sunday, May 8, 2016

ANOTHER THING ABOUT PEOPLE IS



People... and the "things" about them.
Oh, and... Another Thing About People Is...

RLJ






ANOTHER THING ABOUT PEOPLE IS

(Herndon, Virginia)


Another thing about people is... they carry their superstitions with them like handcuffed luggage.
How else did werewolves and zombies and vampires first make their way onto American soil?
How else did snake handling and voodoo and genital mutilation and honor killing here get here?
Another thing about people is... they carry their superstitions with them like handcuffed luggage.

RLJ


Saturday, May 7, 2016

THE SCENARIO ENDS


Hitchhiking is a risky way of traveling.
Bad things happen to some of them who choose to do so.
 This is how... The Scenario Ends!

RLJ





THE SCENARIO ENDS

(Comanche, Texas)


Sandy Lowe knows knows this scenario ends... and it does not end well, indeed!
First thing, she picks up the dusty hitchhiker in the far distance and then the crazy begins!
Before you know it the neck stabbing happens, he is covered in blood and the car is pulled over.
The ending is a horrible death by a hundred stab wounds... and she would not have it any other way... yea, she will pick up this one, too!

RLJ

Friday, May 6, 2016

DO YOU EAT WHAT THEY EAT



Going back to your homeland after a long absence can be jolting to the senses.
Fen Ping did just that a short time ago.
She was mortified by what she did not remember her relatives did.
She found her mind asking her body... Do You Eat What They Eat?

(SP)





DO YOU EAT WHAT THEY EAT

(Chinatown, D.C.)


Some people love puppies and some people love kittens.
Other people love adult dogs and some people love adult cats.
How much do you love puppies and kittens and dogs and cats?
Well let me tell you about the horrific trip I took to Yulin, China last summer!

(FP)

Thursday, May 5, 2016

SIXTEEN HOURS TO DREAD SLEEP AGAIN



For some people, sleep is truly a frightening necessity.
Think about it, 
In order to function as a human you must literally die every night.
And then... to hope you awaken the next morning...
Leaving you to ponder you have Sixteen Hours To Dread Sleep Again!

SMP





SIXTEEN HOURS TO DREAD SLEEP AGAIN

(Sterling, Virginia)


Last night's nightmare was as real to Jason Sooner as was every other one this week.
All of his nightmares are variations on the same theme... his inglorious death in his sleep.
Although he has written his will, the fear of dying and leaving a life incomplete is mortifying.
Oh well, he has awakened to bright sunshine and chirping birds this new morning... and he has another sixteen hours to dread sleep again!

SMP


Wednesday, May 4, 2016

THE BLOOD FLOWS IN ELDORADO


Eldorado actually exists.
Not the mythical place of dreams and fantasies...
Rather, a small town in the wilds of Texas.
And... The Blood Flows In Eldorado!

RLJ





THE BLOOD FLOWS IN ELDORADO

(Eldorado, Texas)


The pounding pain in Mikle's chest burned like crimson flames working down to his heart!
The rude way the door to his coffin was snatched opened was not what awakened him... it was the first strike with the mallet!
He was now the center of a life or death struggle, and he lost because he was now about to die... again!
This time he would not return to stalk humans and drink their blood... but that is OK, who wants to live forever?

OKS

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

THE TASTIEST PART



What is the answer to this question:
What do ghouls love to eat?
The answer is quite simple...
The Tastiest Part!

EEM





THE TASTIEST PART

(Chicago, Illinois)


First you carefully, and slowly, peel back the Epidermis so that you can maximize the pain!
When they scream through the mouth gag, you know their meat is getting ripe with blood!
Then you peel back the Dermis... and underneath that layer is what you wanted all along!
There it is, the subcutaneous fat, the tastiest part of the body... better than the liver... and your mouth waters even more!

EMM

Monday, May 2, 2016

BEAR MEAT


In the Animal Kingdom,
Life boils down to this fact...
Eat, or be eaten!
Sometimes, if an animal fails to hunt its winter prey,
It might, in fact, become... Bear Meat!

RLJ





BEAR MEAT

(Kiana, Alaska)


Maxwell Marks burst into the kitchen door of his house unannounced... making his wife grab her chest in shock..
"What the hell?" She screamed at her wild haired hunter of a husband, who was supposed to be out hunting Elk for winter meat.
"Sue!" Maxwell blurted out. "You won't guess in a million years what the fuck I shot over by Sam's Ridge three hours ago!"
He took his confused wife by the hand and led her outside where, on the flatbed of his truck, was the grizzly bear that horrified them all through last winter!

RLJ

Sunday, May 1, 2016

POACHED


Mposi was not prepared for the ambush.
All of that training was to get him ready for a moment like this.
But, until it actually happens to you, you are not really prepared.
And now, he feels... Poached!

RLJ





POACHED

(The Selous, Tanzania, Africa)


Well, talking about it won't make it any better.
The car was shot dead by the poachers and nightfall is fast approaching.
I took a bullet to my left shoulder and I cut my right foot straight up to the bone on that jagged rock in the ground.
I'm stuck out here in the middle of this wildlife preserve... alone... without a gun... and I can hear the hyenas calling.

MOT