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Don't worry, I'll protect them from the horror...
Even as I give it to them!

RLJ



Monday, April 30, 2018

THE WOLVES ARE OUT TONIGHT


Sam Nussbaum is an old timer mountain cowboy.
He has seen things during his 78 years that normal men cannot imagine.
Winter has broken... and now, again, some of those things are awakening.
It is time for for the annual target practice of horror to begin!

RLJ 





THE WOLVES ARE OUT TONIGHT

(Neihart, Montana)

The wolves are out in force tonight!
There are the real wolves, their calls are obvious and social!
And there are the calls from the werewolves... their calls are other worldly and dangerous!
They don't call for mates or food... they call for horror and death... and I have a bucket full of silver bullets!

SAN

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

DEAR READERS, A FEW WORD OF EXPLANATION


DEAR READERS, 
A FEW WORD OF EXPLANATION:

ABOUT "THE FOURTH LINE OF HORROR" BLOG






I, 
Ronald L. Jones, 
Am an avid consumer of horror fiction. 
I like my horror in comic book form,
In regular traditional written formats and on the movie/TV screen. 
Also, 
I am driven to write horror fiction... in many formats!


This particular long running horror format is called... The Fourth Line Of Horror!
Keep in mind that I have MANY horror blogs!
But concerning this blog...
I have recently received several bits of feedback expressing confusion with this horror format.
In a few more words,
This is the way to read... The Fourth Line Of Horror!
What you see when you first read my work is a prologue to the main horror story!
At the end of that prologue is a note asking you to click on the story title.
You will then be transported to the actual Fourth Line Of Horror blog site.
There you will find the actual four line horror tale.
It is as simple as that.


In this format,
I sometimes take credit for a tale... with the initials RLJ.
Often times,
You will find different initials at the end of various stories.
Those are the initials of a fictional person writing this particular tale.
Many of these tales are written by the fictional subject of the horror tale.
Simple stuff... right?


Always keep in mind that I am my own editor.
I am not a perfect word processor with a built in copy editor!
I do my best to give you proper syntax, grammar and spelling.


Usually,
I post one story a day.
I am currently working on about 20 projects at the same time.
Therefore, 
I am a little sporadic in my posting right now.
But I will soon be back on track to post every day again.


So,
I hope I am giving some type of horror thrill to anyone taking the time to read my work.
I have many more stories to tell...
And tell them,
I will!
Take care and... don't be confused by what I write.
What you see is what you get.
Horror writing is a stretching of your imagination.
Go ahead and stretch it...

RLJ



Tuesday, April 24, 2018

FEAR OF THE WITCHING HOUR (AN EXCERPT)


It is now the middle of the night!
Do you have a healthy... 
Fear Of The Witching Hour?

ASD





FEAR OF THE WITCHING HOUR  (AN EXCERPT)

(Potomac, Maryland)


Mary Olson is lying on her back in her bed with the covers pulled way up just below her eyes!
She know that when the full moon is high, and midnight is near, dark frights appear in her bedroom!
This lunacy has plagued her ever since she was a little girl... obviously, because her mother is a witch!
Mary is actually quite aware of the fact that darkness is calling her to it by these Witching Hour visitations... but she has seen the light... and she likes it... and therefore she has a healthy Fear Of the Witching Hour!

ASD

Monday, April 23, 2018

THE HUNGRY ONES DOWN IN THE DARK BASEMENT


Right there in the heart of The Bronx, NYC is horror rarely known!
Who in their right mind treks across the river Styx to an island so scary?
Not many a person goes there, but that doesn't make Brother Island vanish!
And the dark residents from dark times past who still reside in the dark places?
There is so much food on the other sides of the river... when will it come back?
Because the are... The Hungry Ones Down In the Dark Basement!

RLJ





THE HUNGRY ONES DOWN IN THE DARK BASEMENT

(North Brother Island, New York)

21 Arsenic Lane is another long since abandoned house on this long since forgotten street in this dead place!
This place is old, cold and full of dark secrets... the kinds that chased away many of its frightened residents!
And down in the pitch black basement of 21, monstrous things lay in wait for the resident's eventual return.
They have been hungry for human flesh for decades... and even the police know not to enter this house... but, one day someone will come... and then...!

RLJ

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

HEAVEN BOUND


Allen Jones just met pure evil and resisted its most seductive temptation.
Life and death was at stake with his decision.
He resisted because of one fact:
His wife is... Heaven Bound!

RLJ





HEAVEN BOUND

(Seattle, Washington)


Satan appeared before me last night, as I lay in my bed weeping and praying for the life of my dying wife!
Of course, God didn't answer my prayers... but, Satan did, all smiles and sneers, and wanting my soul!
Satan declared that it would trade her soul for mine... and, according to it, what is her life worth to me?
I declined that tempting offer, because... Satan was intimating that Mary's soul was already its to possess... obviously a fat lie from the "King Of Lies"... I'm convinced my beautiful wife is heaven bound!

ALJ

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

A HOARD OF THEM (AN EXCERPT)


Scott Scandrick can't kill them all!
You kill one of them... and three takes its place.
Even when he finds ammo... it's never enough!
There's... A Hoard Of Them!

RLJ





A HOARD OF THEM  (AN EXCERPT)

(Winchester, Virginia)


...With rifle in right hand, Scott Scandrick stood tall, and exposed, on top of the roof of the abandoned house.
With left hand holding the corner of the chimney for balance, he surveyed the scene before him.
He was now high enough to look over the trees... and there they come, over there, through the rifle scope, a hoard of them.
He could see their blood smeared teeth and faces... with fresh blood... soon to be his blood if he and his 6 bullets didn't get the hell out of there!...

SAS

Thursday, April 5, 2018

GOODBYE, GHOSTS IN THE WIND


Sam is one strong little girl.
Fear is not emotion in her body.
She shows her absence of fear as she stands there...
Before her bedroom window, waving as she days...
Goodbye, Ghosts In The Wind!

ABL




GOODBYE, GHOSTS IN THE WIND

(Fairfax, Virginia)


Samantha Loews isn't afraid of the noisy ghosts in the wind shaking the window panes of her bedroom!
This time if the year, as the oncoming Springtime drives them away, they engage in a final bit of mischief!
All winter long, they battered her window with snow and ice and rain... and she still refused to feel fear!
She defiantly looks the beings in their eyes and waves them goodbye as the wind gusts break them apart... until next winter, when she will be an even more defiant 8 year old!

ABL


Tuesday, April 3, 2018

HERE IS WHAT I THINK ABOUT DEATH


Sam Newberg is standing in front of his bathroom mirror, again.
It is first thing in the morning after a day mourning his 60th birthday.
Good god, he whispered to his tired reflection...
 Here Is What I think About Death!

RLJ




HERE IS WHAT I THINK ABOUT DEATH

(Patterson, New Jersey)


My aging process has taken me here to this time of contemplation about my fading life!
I look into my mirror and I see an old man who I recognize less and less every day!
I eat right and I live right and I sleep right and... my light is still fading darker every day!
And either way, if there is light or if there is darkness after death... well, the horror of slowly getting there is killing me faster than the aging!

SAN