KICK-START THE NIGHTMARE

One cannot truly move away from what one is!

Every man, every woman, is what they are at their core!

They might pretend to move away from their core being... for a time!

But when the horror enters the situation, that will... Kick-Start The Nightmare!

AKN

KICK-START THE NIGHTMARE

(Logan, Utah)

Sleep, sweet deep REM sleep, cannot lighten the load of the waking nightmare that is Mary Schneider.

She is a long since bitten vampire who tries to sleep away her existence... when she is not on the hunt.

The guilt of all that blood and gore and murder on her hands began to eat away at her 47 years ago.

But, the reality is real... arcane powers more obscenely profound than her guilt are at work here, and when she awakens again her hunger will kick-start the nightmare to the horror once again!

AKN 

THE BASTARDS OF HATRED (AN EXCERPT)

Terror and horror is not always about the monsters of fever dream nightmares!

The things that go bump in the night can be soulless, ugly humans!

Reality often presents to humans terror and horror on a shiny silver platter!

We all should know better than to believe the bullshit!

But human terror uses human horror to feed... The Bastards Of Hatred!

RLJ

THE BASTARDS OF HATRED  (AN EXCERPT)

(Washington, D.C.)

...Lock your doors, draw the curtains and polish up your guns, Americans!

The way "they" tell it on the ol' TV is, "They are coming to destroy your lives!"

The narrative is, "They are pouring over the border with their drugs and their murderous intent!"

These mongering Bastards of Hatred traffic in American terror... just like it has always been here... but now, their horror victims do not have to be black!...

RLJ

WITCH'S SOUP (AN EXCERPT)

Be careful, 

Those of you who brave the night of the dark woods!

For, you can easily end up in a...

Witch's Soup!

ELL

WITCH'S SOUP (AN EXCERPT)

(Goudeau, Louisiana)

"In the darkest of night, when the dew begins to form, the old witch of the forest is wide awake!

Where, from inside, she cackles loudly, the nightwalker animals know to steer clear of her dark hut!

Inside her kitchen, a large black cauldron contains a rolling thick soup of questionable ingredients!

There are strange spices, a bat's wing,  a mouse head, a rabbit's foot, a newt's skin and the fingers of "something" that should know better than to be out in the darkness frolicking in the middle of the scary night!"

ELL

WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU

Always make sure you check those doors and windows,

Day or Night,

Before you retire to bed because that is... 

When They Come For You!

RLJ

WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU

(Akron, Ohio)

There is a saying among some deep thought people that "The dream is always the same!"

Most people dream... sparked by the wildly firing neurons in their brains when they succumb to sleep!

Others dream while awake... about what they will do with the now and then aspects of their lives!

But some do not dream... they are the zombies and the ghosts and monsters that bump in the night... and they come for the dreamers as they dream of the same!

RLJ

A GOOD HORROR BOOK

There is a lot of horror out there in the real world!

And, there is the notion that a lot of horror is in the unreal world, too!

The best way to safely examine those notions is in your best lounge chair,

With some good lighting,

And with... A Good Horror Book!

RLJ

A GOOD HORROR BOOK

(Great Falls, Virginia)

A wide eyed Arjun Patel is "in-his-own-world" engrossed in the weighty tome balanced in his lap.

The pages of the book are glowing bright from the 60 watt light of the reading lamp over his right shoulder.

This is The Horrorwalker Travel Guide he is reading... and he is soaking in the horror like a sponge.

He has been reading these horror missives for three hours straight... and he is only just beginning... hello horror tales from these "50 States Of Horror!"

RLJ

ON THE BACK OF MY HANDS

Before me is the signal that leads to the end of my time on earth.

The road map is right there... On The Back Of My Hands!

JMW

ON THE BACK OF MY HANDS

(Ithaca, New York)

Jessica Mae stared longingly at the blue veins under the thin skin on the back of her wrinkling hands!

She turned all of 70 years old yesterday and soon after her birthday party, reality set in!

She is the oldest of six siblings... by eight years... and, "Oh my God," She whispered to her hands.

"I am 70 years closer to discovering what death actually is... and... I'm looking at it right there in the skin on the back of my hands!"

JMW

BAD MEAT

Is this the far future?

Or, is this the horrible past!

Whenever it is, we are still so hungry!

It is now time for us to go out on another hunting party!

We are hunting for... Bad Meat!

ESL

BAD MEAT

(Fairfax County, Virginia)

In this long suffering post-Trump war torn Apocalypse, food is a hard commodity to come by!

Radiation from the Russian bombs has spoiled most everything edible... and humans need meat!

Living humans now eat lesser irradiated dead humans... to help stave off oppressive starvation!

The best meat is the meat of bad men... the bad men we hunt... those who caused this world wide devastation... and I heard that long gone Trump jerky was so good!

ESL