THE SECRETS MARY MANGOLD KEEPS (AN EXCERPT)

Prologue to: THE SECRETS MARY MANGOLD KEEPS

Sweet natured, 

Blonde haired beautiful, 

Lovely tempered Mary Catherine Mangold is a sweet angel.

She works at the local orphanage and is beloved by all.

But when darkness falls,

And the monsters of the underworld emerge,

And Mary sneaks off into the dark night to stalk them,

They all fear... The Secrets Mary Mangold Keeps!

RLJ

THE SECRETS MARY MANGOLD KEEPS  (AN EXCERPT)

(Meridian, Mississippi)

...Mary Mangold crouched low to the wood floor in a midnight dark far bedroom of the haunted mansion!

She was hiding in darkened silence, .45 handgun gripped in both hands, silver bullets ready to kill!

 It was not noisy ghosts that inhabited this deep woods decaying structure, instead, there are werewolves!

She actually thought she would encounter vampires, not ghosts... but, what type of creature matters little to a full fledged monster hunter with frighteningly monstrous secrets of her own!...

JRM

BURIED DEEP

Prologue for: BURIED DEEP

"Where were you last week?" She asked, the sarcasm dripping from each typed word.

"Buried deep!" I answered, still wiping the crap from my very aura.

RLJ

BURIED DEEP

It took one long week of a suffocating horror setback to make my escape from my terror reality!

 I was buried way deep in cracked TV journalism bullshit and hyperbole... I was practically entombed!

I felt like I was dead and rotting six feet under the decaying dirt... decay poised to reclaim my flesh!

But I have clawed my way to the surface... of the bullshit and hyperbole... and again, I write... horror... for you and for me!

RLJ

THE HUNGRY IN THE BASEMENT

Prologue to: THE HORROR IS IN THE BASEMENT 

(A "MEALS FOR VAMPIRES" TALE)

All kinds of hell can exist along the scorched streets of long decayed neighborhoods.

Inside the abandoned homes...

There is where the darker horrors exist.

Take that dilapidated ancient home over there, where...

The Horror Is In The Basement!

RLJ

THE HORROR IS IN THE BASEMENT

(Flint, Michigan)

Down in the darkness of the rotting cellar, the roaches and the ants lord over their decaying kingdom.

75 abandoned years of moist dankness draws in creatures of the night and the creatures that feed on them.

In one of the darker far corners, backed against a decaying wooden wall, sits the ominous casket!

And inside that old wooden final resting place awakens a monster in human form... and is is hungry... and tonight the blood of rats will not do... tonight is the night it hunts humans!

WLL

THE LAST THING DONNIE SAW (AN EXCERPT)

Prologue to: The Last Thing Donnie Saw

What does a man experience at the final moment before his death?

Well, here is... The Last Thing Donnie Saw!

DLM

THE LAST THING DONNIE SAW  (AN EXCERPT)

(Fairfax, Virginia)

The thing Donnie Manning saw as he closed his eyes one last time was the image of death itself!

In that nanoseconds before the lifespark in his brain was extinguished, death touched his soul!

He felt his soul leave his body as his life essence was pulled toward the light in the distant afterlife!

And on its way out of his body, his consciousness felt true horror as it glimpsed the murderer of his body stab the knife into his heart once again!

DLM  

HOW LONG CAN THE UNDEAD STAY UNDEAD

Prologue to: HOW LONG CAN THE UNDEAD STAY UNDEAD

Every dark thing in the Horror Walker World has a darker origin!

Some dark things live very short existences!

And often, the most dangerous dark things live many long destructive years!

The question is... How Long Can The Undead Stay Undead?

RLJ

HOW LONG CAN THE UNDEAD STAY UNDEAD

(Bangor, Maine)

July 12th, 1821 is the day Mary Babic died from Scarlet Fever... and awoke still dead three days later!

Her old world Gypsy heritage of dark magic followed her to the new world and touched her in death!

In life, she knew that she might return from the dead as a soul stealing Revenant... and she did return!

Today, she still haunts the entire state of Maine... and she hungers for a nightly kill... and, as always, she might be hunting you right now!

RWS

THE SCREAMS NEXT DOOR (AN EXCERPT)

This is the tale of... a young teenager at home alone at midnight!

The haunting sounds coming from the house next door!

A hidden gun in mom's room!

That gun makes it a little easier to investigate... The Screams Next Door!

AKS

THE SCREAMS NEXT DOOR  (AN EXCERPT)

(Paradise, Nevada)

...Dear diary... oh, my god... I just heard a bone chilling scream come from inside the abandoned house next door!

If mom were here, instead of Las Vegas on another business trip, I would tell her to call her cop friends!

But, I'm just a snotty nosed kid, officer Jeff continues to remind me of every time he comes over here to visit mom!

But, 13 years old or not, I know where she keeps her secret pistols... and I know how to get them... and the second scream I just heard means I'm going to get them right now!...

AKS