THE VAMPIRE IN YOUR BED

Prologue to: THE VAMPIRE IN YOUR BED

You've got to go to work!

And you don't know what to do!

There is a strange woman dead asleep in your bed in your dark bedroom!

You've got to go... and so, you'll just leave...

The Vampire in your bed!

RLJ

THE VAMPIRE IN YOUR BED

(Camden, New Jersey)

Max Schneider, standing before his medicine cabinet mirror, is intensely staring at his neck.

He whispered to his sleepy eyed reflection, "You really never know a woman until...

You allow her to sink her inches long fangs unto your jugular and drink her fill of your blood!

Max dabbed a little peroxide on the bite wounds, finished preparing for his work day... and gave a longing glance at the vampire sleeping in his bed in his very dark room!

RLJ

THE PLACE IN THE WOODS

(Presenting: Fourth Line Of Horror story number 1,000!)

Prologue to: THAT PLACE IN THE WOODS

It is night time, right now!

And it is very dark back there behind Jane Smith's house.

Should she go out there near... The Place In The Woods?

RLJ

THE PLACE IN THE WOODS

(Deatsville, Kentucky)

There is a place out there on the edge of the woods... right outside behind your house!

And in that place, in the darkness of night, things await people like you to enter within arm's length!

They are those sounds you hear as you take out the kitchen trash... that rustling sound just over there!

In the darkness, in that place in the woods, right behind your house... those are glowing yellow eyes staring back at you!

RLJ

THE PLIGHT OF A LATCHKEY CHILD

Young Paul Buckler is home alone... and very afraid!
His mother will not be back home until Sunday night!
Something bad might have just happened in the house next door!
Fear is often... The Plight Of The Latchkey Child!

RLJ

THE PLIGHT OF A LATCHKEY CHILD

(Oak Park, Illinois)

Last night, I heard a bone chilling scream come from inside the vacant house next door!
If mom were here, instead of NYC on another business trip, I would get her to call the cops!
But, I'm only a 14 year old kid still cowering in my bedroom corner writing my fear down in my diary!
I would call the cops myself, but I'm more afraid of a possible murder next door than ornery cops showing up at my door on a Saturday night!

AML

THE HOMICIDAL DEAD (25)

The dead walk the earth as homicidal cannibals who eat the living!

The living have mostly been murdered and consumed.

I, Jason Allen Cranston, am alive.

My mission in life,

Before I am eventually cornered and bitten,

Is to find somebody else alive... anybody!

JAC

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THE HOMICIDAL DEAD (25)

(Richmond, Virginia)

Today, I actually rescued a fairly young puppy from from under a burnt out car!
Its mother and littermates had been recently attacked and eaten by the homicidal dead!
As only dogs will do, it actually befriended me as soon as I rubbed it under its chin!
I now have a companion to take this lonely journey with... and the responsibility of keeping another living creature from being a meal for... The Homicidal Dead!

JAC

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER

Prologue to: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER

Maria and her daughter have crossed the river!

And they are now considered illegals by many Americans!

They are now getting a harsh taste of what life might be like on...

The Other Side Of The River!

RLJ

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER

(Hidalgo, Texas)

Maria Santos has cried enough tears to salt this part of the Rio Grande river!

She sits on the Texas side with mixed feelings over the horror she endured 4 long hours ago!

Her 5 year old daughter, Angel, is comforting her, but her condition is deteriorating quickly!

The Alligator Gar took Maria's left foot clean off... and she is dying because she cannot stop the blood flow... and the 8 border patrol agents are refusing to help her!

RLJ

JUST BECAUSE YOU LIVE IN UTAH (AN EXCERPT)

Prologue to: JUST BECAUSE YOU LIVE IN UTAH  (AN EXCERPT)

(Remember to click on the story title after reading this prologue for the... HORROR!)


Sam Nance is always going to be a man afraid of his shadow.
Blame it all on his dad's brother... a man with a dark past!
Sam's uncle obviously trades in the dark recesses of horror!
And Sam, well... he just has to deal with his scary uncle being in his life.
Things like this happen... Just Because You Live In Utah!

RLJ

JUST BECAUSE YOU LIVE IN UTAH  (AN EXCERPT)

(Delta, Utah)


...As a young kid, I always wondered if uncle Jeb was fucking with me when he was being horrible!
He caused me much fright and confusion when he would show me the shrunken head on the wall in his den!
He enjoyed great pleasure in my discomfort with all of the ancient Native American artifacts he possessed!
He thought it was even funnier when, on my 21st birthday, he brought the shrunken head to my birthday party and told it to speak to me... and it did!...

SAN