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

DRAGGED DOWN BY THE STONES

(Prologue)

Murder, in a world of horror, just might the murderer's demise!

Consider the case of this little horror tale!

RLJ

DRAGGED DOWN BY THE STONES

(Miami, Florida)

Simple minded criminals never learn their life lessons in the horrorwalker world!

The two murderers of Ford Olander tossed him into the ocean with stones in his pockets!

Olander is a ghoul, living on the streets like a bum, eating the bodies of the dead homeless!

To them, for sick kicks, they murdered a trash bum... who will hunt them down as soon as

 the ropes around his hands and feet deteriorate!

RLJ

BLOOD LUST

(Prologue)

Conner Chance, the famed vampire hunter, has cornered another one. 

Too bad vampires are the hunters... and the hunted!

RLJ

BLOOD LUST

(Long Island, New York)

I've got a thick twelve inch oak wood stake in my left hand with a very sharp tip!

 I've got a heavy steel hammer in my right hand with an iron head on a Oak handle!

There's a blessed cross hanging from my neck and fresh holy water in my pockets!

I'm out for blood tonight and I will show the vampire hidden in the graveyard what

 bloodlust really means!

RLJ

CRUISING THE BYWAYS

(Prologue)

Sometimes fate pushes a man to step into the horror headon!

And if that man is himself of the horror, well, horror beware!

RLJ

(an excerpt)

CRUISING THE BYWAYS

(Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

Omar Thomas, a psychic with tracking abilities, has two jobs he loves very much!

By day, he is an automobile mechanic... by night, he is a monster hunter!

In this horrorwalker world, monsters are real... and some of them hunt humans!

In his 1975 Chevy Camaro, he cruises the dark night byways to kill the murderous monsters

first!

RLJ

DEAD ON THE FLOOR

 

(Prologue)

Only in death can a man discover the purpose of the afterlife.

RLJ

DEAD ON THE FLOOR

(Seattle, Washington)

The ghost of Tibb Mann hovered five feet above his sprawled dead body on the floor!

All he know knew was he was transparent, floating without effort and sad about his death!

Oh, he knows who murdered him with a single back stab through his shoulder blades!

And somehow, intuitively, he knew his new ghostly purpose was to haunt Billy until HE was

 dead on the floor!

RLJ

ABJECT FEAR

(prologue)

Fear can be irrational! Abject fear can be horror, indeed!

RLJ

ABJECT FEAR

(Memphis, Tenn)

Paulet Sanderson has always been deathly afraid of birds, butterflies, bees and bugs!

To her, they have too many eyes or they can fly into her hair or bore into her brain!

At twenty-seven years old, her parents cannot understand her wild pathological fears!

Tonight, when she bursts through their front door, with a fluttering bat in her hair... oh, the

horror of a very long night will begin!

RLJ

THE KIDNEY STONE

 

(Prologue)

Abject horror from inside the body of Zeb Marshall!

RLJ

THE KIDNEY STONE

(Montvale, N.J)

Zeb Marshall stood over the toilet in his bathroom, again feeling sheer terror of the horror!

 "My God," he whispered as he prepared his aim into the center of the water in the bowl!

Last week, his urologist set the date for the Cystoscopy for Friday... today is Monday!

The medication only dulls the pain in his side... the pain and blood from his urethra... holy

 hell, as he falls to one knee in tears!

RLJ

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS

(Prologue)

There are secrets kept very quiet and well hidden in coastal N.C. towns!

And these secrets are dealt with when they surface!

RLJ

 HURRICANE FORCE WINDS

(Wrightsville Beach, N.C.)

The local evening news has issued a coastal warning for the southern coast of N.C.!

Wilmington and the coastline has played this dangerous game with nature before!

It's those forceful winds from off the ocean that causes the damage to area homes!

And it always blows in some kind of deep water monster that the local people have to

 quietly dispose of... again!

RLJ

SPIRITS IN THE OAK TREES

(Prologue)

That old Oak Tree over there...

It has lived through some horrific stuff!

RLJ

SPIRITS IN THE OAK TREES

(Fayetteville, N.C.)

Shannon Love live in fear of the two ancient Oak Trees occupying much of her back yard!

Every moonlit night, the trees talk and plead to her in painfully raspy haunted whispers.

Now six years in, both trees are forcefully begging her to release the spirits in their

 tangled roots!

These restless spirits of hanged slaves are trapped where they were murdered... and they are

 demanding release!

RLJ

 

CRUNCHY BONES

There are hungry monsters in these dark, humid and hot woods!

And some of them hunt people!

RLJ

 CRUNCHY BONES

(Deer Park, Alabama)

The meat on the bones is just the tasty treat!

The ancient beast monster of these deep woods has just now finished its meal!

Humans have the tastiest bones with that sweet and salty bone marrow!

They are the most dangerous prey, but they taste so good with their crunchy bones!

RLJ

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

(Prologue)

Three knocks on the front door...

To tell the in occupants they are here.

Oh, the horror!

RLJ

 

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

(Mahwah, NJ)

The loud knock on the front door to Jack Miller's apartment began one year ago today!

Three loud ghostly knocks, everyday at 8:30 PM, like clockwork that is absolutely on time!

The sounds are real, even heard by his girlfriend, who is absolutely frightened by strikes!

Tonight, on this eerie anniversary, the culprit will be on the other side of the door... and

the horror will begin!

RLJ

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WHITE

 

(Prologue)

The people of this Horrorwalker World are speaking!

And they want the fall of the house of white!

RLJ

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WHITE

(Washington, DC)

We, the human people. are the actual guardians of this Horrorwalker World!

We, who are sane and not bloodthirsty, will not allow the horror to overtake us!

The puerile monsters in that house of horror must face rejection and shunning!

If their horror wins, chaos wins, and we the people simply cannot allow that!

RLJ

THE FIRST DATE

(Prologue)

These married lovers had a many decades long love affair. 

Oh, they have known horror, but it made them stronger!

RLJ

THE FIRST DATE

(Tyler, Texas)

Odell West is going on a date tonight with the woman of his dreams.

He has know Patsy Roman ever since elementary school when they became friends.

They are now both twenty-three years old, done with college and ready to date.

He says no to the horror outside, walks out his front door, disregards the burning cross in the

yard and grabs ahold of 1965!

RLJ

THE BEAUTIFUL UNDEAD

Ken Davis is in quite a jam. 

One night, five years ago, he met the beautiful Andrea. 

His life has been a beautiful nightmare ever since!

RLJ

(an excerpt from... Meals For Vampires)

THE BEAUTIFUL UNDEAD

(Kansas City, Kansas)

I do love you, Andrea, and I am grateful that you choose to let me live that first night!

Every time you come back to me, to show me the love you tell me you need, I am honored!

You are the beautiful undead, as you have told me to call you when you take the love you

 crave!

But I also am your slave, who lives in fear that one day your feral hunger might drive you to

 murder me... alive!

KYD

IN THE COMPANY OF DOGS

 (prologue)

Aaron Ziegler is on the very dangerous nightly hunt!

He is safe and protected because he keeps in the company of dogs!

AMZ

(An excerpt)

IN THE COMPANY OF DOGS

(Somewhere inside the Horrorwalker World)

Every day, I count the blessing that is Trip, my German Shepard companion!

I am alive today because of his protective actions and his absolute loyalty!

We are vampire hunters bound by the blood of the wolf and the light of the full moon!

Every day I take my revenge, walking the line of horror... in the company of dogs!

AMZ

GRANDMOTHER'S SECRETS

 

(Prologue)

Pam thought she knew her granny well. 

But she was not aware of her grandmother's secret's.

(RLJ)

GRANDMOTHER'S SECRETS

(New Orleans, Louisiana)

One year ago, Pam Smith inherited her grandmothers house that was built in 1927!

It took her nearly the entire year to fix-up the house to her liking so she could move in!

Pam, and her two preteen girls, Maddie and Sam, will finally have a real home to live in!

The horror begins when Maddie finds the trapdoor in the basement... the Black Book of Hades

hidden inside!

RLJ

AB NEGATIVE

 

(Prologue)

It is the rarest blood type!

And the taste is, Chef's Kiss, exquisite!

RLJ

AB NEGATIVE

(Somewhere in a horrorwalker alternative future)

Jaxon Taylor passed the tests with flying colors... his blood was AB Negative, perfect!

The doctors began the careful extraction process by way of painful neck venipuncture!

Strapped down on the operating table, without anesthesia, all he could do was scream!

Vampires love the sounds humans make when draining AB Negative... it is music for

meals for vampires!

RLJ

IN HIS BACKYARD LAST NIGHT

 (Prologue)

Patrick Anderson faced pure evil in his backyard last night!

It was pure horror!

RLJ

IN HIS BACKYARD LAST NIGHT

(Reston, Virginia)

My wife, Anne, asked me to get up out of bed because she was startled out of her sleep!

"Be the man," she insisted. "Go investigate that damn screaming in the backyard!"

As usual, it had to be a stupid Fox tangling with one of the neighborhood cats!

I looked out the kitchen window, saw blood red eyes staring back at me and realized... I

 better get my shotgun!

PJA

AN ICY FULL MOON AT MIDNIGHT

 

(prologue)

The desert at night holds dark secrets! Sometimes those secrets eat you!

RLJ

AN ICY FULL MOON AT MIDNIGHT

(Presidio, Texas)

The stars are bright in the crystal clear midnight Texas sky... and the full moon is brighter!

Amaya is down on all fours now, her body painfully transformed into the wolf in her soul!

She is now hunting out here in the cooled down desert, her prey are the men with the guns!

The letters ICE mean nothing in wolf form... and their horror is about to last all night long!

RLJ

A VAMPIRE MISTAKE

 

Even the undead can succumb to... A Vampire Mistake!

RLJ 

A VAMPIRE MISTAKE

(Cameron, La)

Tarof  is sitting in the bedroom of the victim of last night's feeding frenzy!

The tang of her blood was like electricity infused grape wine from the old land!

She was so delicious that Tarof actually fell asleep, right there, overwhelmed!

When he burst into flames from the morning sunny window, one hundred years of death

 died with him!

RLJ

THE NOTE IN MY MAILBOX

 

(Prologue)

The English Moors holds a vast number of horror secrets!

Sometimes, even the dead seek answers there!

RLJ

THE NOTE IN MY MAILBOX

(Devon, England)

My dear Martin, somehow I have been dragged from the casket of my eternal rest!

This note, dear Strawberry, is from me... only you and I know my pet name for you!

My desiccated hand placed this note in the postbox... hold it close to your warm heart!

I've come back from the dead for you... but before we meet, I must visit Dartmoor!

ANNA

ANOTHER PREMONITION

 

(prologue)

One day, Susan Orr will respect and embrace her power!

Until then, more people will die.

RLJ

ANOTHER PREMONITION

(Leesburg, VA.)

Susan Orr's thoughts: Here comes that ominous intense shoulder pain again!

Every time a thunder storm begins to brew on the mountain, the pain arrives!

It is always the left shoulder joint and this time the horrid pain is for a huge storm!

Ten people died in town the last time... I know that number will be higher tonight!

SMO

THEY DO EAT THAT

 

(prologue)

The horror begins!

The government rogues will soon discover... 

THEY DO EAT THAT!

RLJ

THEY DO EAT THAT

(Springfield, USA)

(an excerpt)

Roseline's parents smuggled her Zonbi into the states 20 years ago, when she was very young!

It was gifted to her when she was a child... her helper and protector to always watch over her!

It is occult undead, and never eats or sleeps... just always waiting in her closet, just in case!

Roseline was recently attacked, stolen and detained... activating her Zonbi's hunger to

 finally hunt and eat!

RLJ

A HARD TEST

 

They say, Maddy, always hike in pairs. Your survival might rely on the other person. But you know better, right?

(RLJ

A HARD TEST

(Tucson, Arizona)

Independent Maddy Hayes loves hiking out in the Arizona wilderness by herself!

She owns her toughness and her ability to use all the training her dad taught her!

Better than any man, she is... and testing her survival mastery is answered out here!

A hard test is soon to begin... the stalking Puma downwind will bring the horror!

RLJ

DESERT SECRETS

(Prologue)

Pvt. Samson and Sgt. Jones live in constant fear. 

Death stalks them every day because of... Desert Secrets.

RLJ

 

DESERT SECRETS

(Fort Hood, TX)

(An Excerpt)

Sgt. Jones found the large tomb right after the bloody firefight in that shallow valley.

We entered the crude doorway, ducking low to pass the threshold... into the catacombs.

There was no gold or jewelry inside the caves lit up by our flashlights... only death.

The vengeful, indestructible, mummy guardian of the tome still hunts us to this day!

KJS