CREEPY TOWNS

 

(prologue)

Death takes many forms in the Horrorwalker World! And sometimes death commands

 wrongs to be made right!

RLJ

CREEPY TOWNS

(Bellaire, Ohio)

Arnold Taft had researched/heard some very creepy things about Bellaire, Ohio... and he

 cannot wait until he moves there!

That place is supposed to be a very haunted city in a haunted county of a strange state... of 

which he will find out why in one month!

He is on a very serious mission, of which he is compelled to engage, because he has deep 

mystical secrets of his own!

Arnold died two years ago and he is on a mission to find his murderer and kill every 

monster he meets along the way... especially in Creepy towns!!

RLJ

DARKNESS CALLING

(Prologue)

I, Ann Sue Masterson, left West Virginia a decade ago because the darkness there is a horror

 too raw and visceral for my soul!

RLJ

(an excerpt)

 DARKNESS CALLING

(Charleston, West Virginia)

The night time in the darkened, lightless, pervasive West Virginia forest is darker than

 blackness!

Imagine the living things haunting these human-less tree filled valleys and peaks in the

 darkness!

Daytime here is primordial, ancient and dimly lit... and the darkness calls for the day to die!

Denizens know their stories of myth and horror live in the darkness... and they would rather 

keep that horror in the darkened forest!

RLJ

THE MOORS AT MIDNIGHT

(prologue)

Civilized British humankind knows the haunted secrets in the hinterlands of England.

And they stay away, especially at night!

RLJ

 

THE MOORS AT MIDNIGHT

(North York Moors, England)

What a beautiful place, be the Heather carpeted moors of this wonderful mystical land!

This is old wooded moorland in an equally old country of myth, mystery and fire breath!

In the daytime, the purple flowers reach up to the sky and ask the gods above for yesterdays!

And in the darkest night, in the moors, sounds and shadows and fur and fangs step out to 

stalk their land... like they have done for centuries!

RLJ

THE ACCIDENTAL VAMPIRE HUNTER

 

(prologue)

"When did you first decide you wanted to become a vampire hunter, mommy?"

RLJ

THE ACCIDENTAL VAMPIRE HUNTER

(Central Park, NYC)

Linda Russ thought she was losing her mind because of what she just saw!

She incredulously asked herself, "Did that bat just shimmer and then turn into a naked

 man?"

Whatever she saw, it/he immediately turned and ran into the dark forest of this part of the

 park!

She gathered her two kids, cleaned up the picnic site and told her husband to take then all

 home... she secretly needed to take a deep dive into vampire lore!

RLJ

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

(Prologue)

It is a shock to the nervous system to first meet the Horrorwalker!

And then comes the horror that is forced upon you!

RLJ

 

(another excerpt)

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

(Detroit, Michigan)

Minnie Stanley awoke in a panic because something large, dark and scary was in her

 nightlight lit bedroom!

"Goddamn it," she nervously whispered as she realized who/what was standing at the foot of

 her bed!

It was the Horrorwalker creature standing silent and ominous extending that Horrorwalker

 story book for her to accept!

As stated, upon a visitation you are compelled to read a particular tale of horror catered for

 you... her title is YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED... and the horror begins!

RLJ

 

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

(prologue)

Find a note in a bottle, think twice before reading the words on the pages!

You have been warned!

 

(an excerpt)

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

(Montvale, N.J.)

Jan Rohm could not believe her luck when she discovered the huge piece of jade.

In all of her days cleaning out old homes, she had never found something like that!

The former owner died here one year ago... and the gem was in a small organza bag under a

 loose floorboard.

She pocketed the Jade, even though the note attached to the organza stated, "Do not take

 possession of this cursed stone, for death will surely visit you!"

RLJ

OFFENSE OVER DEFENCE

(prologue)

Driving along dark roads at night is fun for some people! That is, until it is not fun at all!

RLJ

 

(an excerpt)

OFFENSE OVER DEFENCE

(Sumpter, S.C.)

Jackson Freely has made this run from Sumpter to Columbia many times over the decades.

Driving on the 378 to Columbia, listening to The Big DM, is a simple trek that gives him 

a little time to himself!

Halfway to his destination, off the dark main road, he saw the darkened shack for the first

 time ever!

He was compelled to stop and investigate, the light in the single window went dark, the door

 slowly opened... and hell on earth began in five minutes!

RLJ

OUT THE CORNER OF MY EYE

(prologue)

Mental illness is in the mind of the victim! It is all real to the victim! Why can't anyone else see what the victim sees?

RLJ

OUT THE CORNER OF MY EYE

(Little River, S.C.)

Tavon Harris believes he caught another glance at the thing that hides behind him in plain

 sight!

Since childhood, something monstrous has lived behind him, just out of sight but invisible to

 others!

His parents had him psychoanalyzed and heavily medicated as a child, but it did not make it

 go away!

And so now, as he sits quietly in the chair, strait jacket on tight, darting eyes trying to see it,

 the horror of his life continues!

RLJ

SAVAGES LIKE YOU

(prologue)

What better place for old western horror to hide and fester than Nebraska!

RLJ

SAVAGES LIKE YOU

(Bellevue, Nebraska)

Way out here in the middle of Nowhere, USA is this little isolated place of one kind of

 people!

Darkness is here when the light is brightest and the smiles are wide and fake and scary!

Guns and God and bullets, some of them made of silver, target the evilness that crawls!

Old horror lives out here, coming out in the black sky night, and it is taken care of by

 savages like you!

RLJ

MISUNDERSTOOD

 

(prologue)

Every human you meet wants you dead! Obviously, you are very misunderstood!

RLJ

MISUNDERSTOOD

(Yukon, Canada)

The wolf monster of the dark screaming woods crouched behind the Mulberry bush

 attempting to not be seen!

The humans in the encampment were fully armed and ready to pounce upon it with swords

 and arrows and fire!

Despite their obsessive attacks, the creature was actually intelligent and lonely, being one-

of-a-kind!

 It was self-aware of its size and its fangs and its growling voice, but what could it do to

 convince these humans not to kill it on sight?

RLJ

IT ONLY HURTS WHEN I DIE

(Prologue)

Sandy Travis doesn't even know she is an immortal!

She never gets sick and often wonders why it only hurts when I die!)

(an excerpt)

IT ONLY HURTS WHEN I DIE

(Grand Island, Nebraska)

Dear diary, today I am journaling about another death and the pain that brought me back!

I was walking from work, on my lunch break, to go to the sandwich shoppe down the street!

And as fate would have it, again, a speeding car smashed into me and killed me right there!

And then the pain woke me and I ran back to the office to change my cloths, again, as I

 watched the commotion at the savage wreck outside my window!

RLJ

THE GHOST IN HER BED

(prologue)

A presence has attached itself to this young woman.

Soon she will have go to war with THE GHOST IN HER BED!

RLJ

(an excerpt)

THE GHOST IN HER BED

(Washington, DC)

 For as long as she can remember, Robin Paxton has never slept alone in her bed!

One day, as a young child, a ghost appeared in her bed and refused to leave.

At first the presence was something silly... until, on her sixteenth birthday, it warned her that

 it would kill any boy she tried to date!

And now, on her twenty-first birthday, she has met Joe Jones at the gym... and she now fears

 that to love him is to murder him!

RLJ

ALWAYS HUNGRY

(Prologue)

Always remember,

She is a meek little flower... until the sun goes down!

RLJ

 

ALWAYS HUNGRY

(Kansas City, MO)

Sandy Moss is haunting the seedy parts of the city on this dark and humid night!

The hunger has burned her entire body for a couple of hours and, so comes the madness!

The red in her eyes matches the red curtain blanketing her sanity, making her a dangerous

 monster!

She will feed tonight and then comes afterward... where she becomes that sweet old widow

 living alone down the block!

RLJ

IN DEATH COMES QUESTIONS

(Prologue)

What comes after death, actually? Only the haunted come close to realizing that question!

RLJ

(an except)

 IN DEATH COMES QUESTIONS

(Flagstaff, Arizona)

I should state my name, Lance Porter, to remind myself of who I am because my memory is

 fading fast!

I am dead and desiccated and long since buried underneath the hot dry sand and rock of this

 burial plot!

Somehow, I have become aware and am now looking down at my grave and wondering why

 I am here!

In life I thought I had all the answers... but now, in death, comes the questions of just what

 does it mean to die!

RLJ

WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW

 

(Prologue)

Moving to a new town? 

Do you explore a primer about its horror past before you move there?

RLJ

(an excerpt)

WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW

(Brunswick County, N.C.)

Robert Smith loves living in Southport because his golfing grounds are a stones throw away!

And in the opposite direction, fishing off the ocean is a ten minute slow walk down the street!

This is a quiet place with a mean horror history, but the present is now and that history is quiet!

Well quiet for recent transplants, like Robert, who has yet to take a deep dive into the past horrors of

 this county!

RLJ

HUNGRY IN ALASKA

(Prologue)

In this place, take your head off the swivel and you might end up eaten!

RLJ

 HUNGRY IN ALASKA

(Juneau, Alaska)

The bears are always hungry!

When the fish are plenty and the berries are ripe, they are content.

But when the snow falls, the food becomes scarce and they are ready to eat anything!

January is here and they should be hibernating instead of scratching on my front door!

RLJ

TIP OF THE APEX

(Prologue)

Air so clean!

Water so pure!

Mountain life, in a horrorwalker world!

RLJ

TIP OF THE APEX

(South Toe, N.C.)

Way up here in the wilderness of the mountains, the waters and the air are pure and clean!

The few bridges connect the few roads that end at the river's edges on both sides!

A man can lose the world up here or the world can lose him as well... all a good thing!

The only horror in a place like this comes from savage nature... but those thoughts are for

 another day!

RLJ

FOOTPRINTS IN THE BLOOD

The moon is full tonight!

And murderous monsters are about!

RLJ

 

FOOTPRINTS IN THE BLOOD

(Baylor, Texas)

"The body has been savaged like a mauling," stated Detective Moss to Sargent Thomas!

"As you can see," continued Moss. "Something horrible and ugly happened here last night!

These are seasoned policemen who have seen a lot of awful things in their long careers!

What confused them about this scene were the large wolflike footprints in the blood!

RLJ

ZOMBIES DO NOT RUN

(Prologue)

Eric Jones follows zombie rules!

It is easy to survive the zombie hoards when you follow the rules!

RLJ

 

ZOMBIES DO NOT RUN

(Wilmington, N.C.)

Twelve years into the zombie apocalypse and I am still alive and thriving and killing

 zombies!

Wilmington has the ocean over there and lots of woodland all around for gardens and

 nature!

Joyce and I, and the few others survivors, eat well in this sub tropical hothouse city off the

 ocean!

We are faster and smarter and will survive this nature made madness because... zombies do

 not run!

RLJ

 

THE LAKE AFTER DARK

 

(Prologue)

The summer camps are closed. The children have gone home. And now the horror begins!

RLJ

THE LAKE AFTER DARK

(Trinity, Texas)

The steamy summer camps are now closed and all of the noisy children are gone!

Even the night watchman is gone because there is no need to guard the darkness!

Now, all the horror things and stuff that stealthily haunt Summer Camps awaken with the

 quietness!

Now they wait in the silent nighttime darkness to do the horrible things they do to brave, or

 stupid, victims... just like in the movies!

RLJ

I ONLY DREAM OF YOU

 (Prologue)

(Love, even in death!)

RLJ

I ONLY DREAM OF YOU

(Las Vegas, Nevada)

In his sleep, Max Graham only dreams about his wife, Lydia, who died in a car crash one

 year ago!

She was only thirty-three years old when the drunken driver's Maybach hit her head on!

Everybody involved on the other side is throwing all kinds of money at him for his comfort!

But even through this time of grief and horror, Max only finds comfort in telling Lydia 

that... I only dream of you!

RLJ

IN THE COMPANY OF DOGS

 

(prologue)

Dogs are man's best friends!

And they HATE vampires!

Thank God for that!

RLJ

(an excerpt)

IN THE COMPANY OF DOGS

(Somewhere inside the Horrorwalker World)

My dogs are my lifeline inside this crazy dangerous world of Horrorwalker horror!

Vampires want to rule this world of horror, but they have to contend with hunters like me!

There are other dangerous vampire trackers out there hunting in the company of dogs!

Thank god dogs murder vampires on sight... and vampires have a debilitating fear of dogs!

RLJ

THE SHACK IN THE CENTER OF THE CORNFIELD

 

(Prologue)

Twin brothers begin a lifetime of battles with the occult.

Tonight they face their first true test!

RLJ

(an excerpt)

THE SHACK IN THE CENTER OF THE CORNFIELD

(Pella, Iowa)

Sixteen-year-old twin brothers, Jake and Jack, have life long occult obsessions!

Today is the day they would visit that shack their parents told them was haunted!

Last year, they tracked down and killed the werewolf... and staked that vampire!

How hard, they muse daily to each other, could it be to send an evil ghost to its death?

RLJ

BAD BLOOD

 

(Prologue)

Do vampires love the taste of ALL blood?

RLJ

BAD BLOOD

(Newport, Rhode Island)

Out in the park, after midnight, there are always stragglers stumbling in the dark!

They drink alcohol and they party all week long in this wealthy but god forsaken place!

Alcohol blood has the tang I like, as does blood tainted with all the diseases human carry!

But this new Covid blood is nasty blood... all thick and gummy and hard to digest... the

 epitome of bad blood!

SAM

LOOK UP

(Prologue)

There are many horror reasons to look up in a horrorwalker world!

RLJ

LOOK UP

(New York City, New York)

Walking up and down the streets between the cavernous buildings creates tunnel vision!

Every day the eyes look straight ahead and to the sides as one goes from here to there!

An eye level world view works to keep life moving and to keep everything normal!

But this is the horrorwalker world where horror is everywhere... to see it right now, just look up!

RLJ

TWO EYES IN THE DARKNESS

 

(Prologue)

Solo Camping is for the strong and the brave!

Sometimes you might have to fight for your life out there!

RLJ

TWO EYES IN THE DARKNESS

(Pensacola, N.C.)

Solo camper, Trina Stamp, has now been cut off from the mainland for four hot days!

The split flash flood had raced down the mountain like a herd of angry buffalo!

She is five miles from town and trapped on all sides on this small flood made island!

Last night something crawled out of the water onto her safe space... it's gone now, but

 tonight she has prepared to again see those two eyes in the darkness!

RLJ

SWEET AMERICAN TOURISTS

 

(Prologue)

Two hours ago, Paul Jones arrived in HafenCity!

In two more hours he would be in a nighttime bar!

With wooden and silver weapons in his coat,

He has a target to meet tonight?

RLJ

SWEET AMERICAN TOURISTS

(Hamburg, Germany)

Idun Klein appears to be a beautiful young woman in her late twenties!

Her blonde hair matches well with her pale white skin and slender, but sturdy body!

She has haunted Hamburg since the night of her turning well over a century ago.

She loves her city, especially loving American tourists because their blood... taste so sweet!

RLJ

RECOVERY TIME

(Prologue)

Sometimes the vengeful dead need a little... recovery time!

RLJ

 RECOVERY TIME

(Saddle River, New Jersey)

Being dead is come crazy stuff.

I'm bound and gagged and floating face down in the river.

Vinny didn't have to cap me in my head, but I guess he needed to prove his worth.

Well I'm dead, but I am living, and when these ropes get soft I hope I can move well enough

 to get my revenge!

RLJ

I WILL SEE YOU LATER TONIGHT

 

(Prologue)

Exactly who is that person drawing blood from your arm at the plasma center?

RLJ

I WILL SEE YOU LATER TONIGHT

(Washington, D.C.)

Cabe Theo decided that today will be the day he gives blood plasma at the local center!

The public service announcements over the radio are very persistent and convincing!

He arrived early, signed in, met lovely Jane and sat back on the chair to start the process!

Jane, the phlebotomist, was skillful and quick... and her hypnotic smile revealed her very

 white, very sharp teeth!

RLJ

FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHT

(Prologue)

It's Friday night in the horrorwalker world... and you are out and about!

But, you are not the only entities stalking the night!

RLJ 

FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHT

(Bangor, Maine)

Another intense work week has come and gone and melted into Friday night!

Very busy people around the city are now ready to let loose and pillage the night!

All that human energy is focused into this intoxicatingly hot summer friday night!

And like moths drawn into a flame, frightful horrors are, too, drawn to the energy that

 saturates another hot summer night!

RLJ

GOD OVER COVID

 

(Prologue)

Humans are sometimes as stupid as stupid can be.

Unfortunately, Mark Sally is an example that proves the point.

RLJ

GOD OVER COVID

(Dallas, Texas)

Mark Sally is as sick as a broke down dog with a bad heart and a booze pickled liver!

The doctor, his wife made him see, told him he has full-on Covid and he needs medication!

Mark is an old school Texas man who believes in God, country and bullets... not viruses!

Susan, his wife, vaccinated, knows the horror of this virus... and the horror of the next five

 days as her husband lives or dies!

RLJ

CLAWING AT THE FULL MOON

 

(Prologue)

Carlos Rivas is from an old country and an old time!

Monsters are real, where he is from... like him!

(RLJ) 

CLAWING AT THE FULL MOON

(Waco, Texas)

I'm leaving this note in this jail cell because I told these fucking cops to let me go!

I feel guilt for all the murders I cause when I succumb to the calling of the full moon!

I live in the forest with the animals who are my prey when humans are not present!

They chased me down, tased me and detained me, just because... and tonight, under this 

full moon, I will wreck this place and destroy many lives!

RLJ

UNDER THE BRIGHT FULL MOON

 

(Prologue)

Horror reaches up through the mossy earth,

To remind you of its constant threat!

RLJ

UNDER THE BRIGHT FULL MOON

(Reston, VA.)

This place is all expensive cars, expensive houses and expensive opportunities for horror!

This wealthy Northern Virginia planned community has plenty of wooded areas for hidden

 horror!

So many tasty people spend their days and nights pretending the world is only in Reston!

The cool weather will be here soon and the night horrors will arise to roam these streets

 under the bright full moon!

RLJ

WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES

(Prologue)

Don't be a fool like Elli!

Believe a woman when she warns you about death!

RLJ

 WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES

(Atlanta, Georgia)

So, Elli Janzing believed he could thumb his nose at the ancient vampire tropes!

Lilly, the vampire he met at the diner late that night, warned him of her horror!

Although she respected his attempts at game, she warned him that she was death!

He insisted he needed her that night, and so, she loved him to ecstasy before she ate him!

RLJ

MOONLIGHT ALONG THE POTOMAC

 

(Prologue)

The river divides two states!

And horror exists on both sides of the river!

MOONLIGHT ALONG THE POTOMAC

(Cascades, Virginia)

Yesterday, Sara Lee got that feeling of the change in the earth's position on its axis!

It's still hot outside her Cascades townhouse, but change is in the air and it's coming soon! 

The dark things that hide in the woods along the river will soon haunt the halloween nights!

And she will soon change, as they arrive, to run with them in the full moon light along the

banks of the Potomac!

RLJ