BLOOD CRAVING

(prologue)

She awoke days later from being drained of blood by her vampire attacker!

Now she is awake and craving... blood!

RLJ

 BLOOD CRAVING

(Oberlin, OH)

The first taste of warm blood sucked from the neck of a cow was not good, at all!

Mary, a former human being, is now a mind-hazed vampire gripped with the hunger!

Something in her now feral mind compelled her to find a person, bite him and drink his

 blood!

But the vampirism has not fully replaced her soul, yet, and she has attacked a farm animal... 

but what about tomorrow night!?!

RLJ

SILVER PLATED

 

Walking alone at night in the darkness inside of the Horrorwalker World?

Better have some silver on you for when the horror finds you!

RLJ

SILVER PLATED

(Flagstaff, AZ)

Chris Maddox was now on his knees, looking up into the starry sky, in a prayer pose!

"Thank you stars above," he whispered with solid conviction as he faced the dark sky!

Three yards to his left lay the battered and bloody body of something huge and wolf-like!

It attacked him from the bushes, knocking him down and biting at his leather jacket, and 

dying instantly when he bashed its head with his silver plated mag-lite!

RLJ

NIGHT STALKER 7

(prologue)

Good horror is horror with a fantastically unexpected twist!

(RLJ)

 

NIGHT STALKER 7

(Killeen, TX)

Suddenly Marsha realized, "The call's are coming from inside the house!"

Logically, she should have sprinting out of the house and called out to the neighbor!

But no, this is Marsha Collins, combat vet, MMA trainee, biker babe with the tattoos!

She turned off the lights in every room, grabbed her Night Stalker 7 knife and positioned 

herself in a corner of the living room and waited... for the intruder to make a sound... and

 then the horror began!

RLJ

THE OTHER SIDE OF SIXTY-FIVE

(prologue)

On the other side of sixty-five years old is...

the advancement toward something... horrifying!

RLJ

 

THE OTHER SIDE OF SIXTY-FIVE

(Galveston, TX)

The definition of horror is surviving so long as a black man in these United States of 

America!

I have seen/experienced some things, both horror and terror related, in my long black life!

I now am staring at my face in my bathroom mirror, tracing the lines of a hard life across 

my face!

And I do realize the ultimate horror is soon to terrorize me through my age... that, being, 

death is staring right back at me in my eyes!

RLJ

WHEN THE WINTER BREAKS

 

(Prologue)

When the frozen winter breaks, the zombie hunt is on again!

RLJ

WHEN THE WINTER BREAKS

(Minot, ND)

Up here in the North Side of the zombie apocalypse, the hard winter has broken!

Everything outside of a warm environment freezes solid in the North Dakoda extremes!

But now trickling water can be heard here and there and insects are now buzzing in the air!

And Jeff Bowers, one of the last humans alive in this Dakoda, once hankered down in his

 zombie proof shelter, knows that the hoards of frozen zombies out there will soon thaw out

 enough to begin their hunt... for him... again!

RLJ

DANICA IN THE RAIN

 

(Prologue)

On a dark and rainy night,

Horror just might await you outside the front door!

RLJ

DANICA IN THE RAIN

(Montvale, NJ)

Lonny Meadows met her at the corner of 5th and Lexton on a dark and rainy Friday night!

She was soaked because the driving rain blew underneath her umbrella as she stood there 

helpless!

He took her inside the building and escorted her up to his third floor office where she could 

dry off in the warmth.

He discovered a lot of personal information about Danica that night, starting with the fact 

she did not cast a reflection in the restroom mirror in his office!

RLJ

A HAUNTING THEY WILL GO

 

(prologue)

OK, now... the games of Halloween for the kiddies is finished for another year. 

Now, we are back to the horror!

RLJ

A HAUNTING THEY WILL GO

(Wilmington, NC)

All of the Halloween candy seeking creatures are now done haunting the darkness!

Candy bowls are empty and extra sweets are soon to be given away at work or church!

And now comes dark November's first night of fall with it's dry leaves and cooling air!

And the things that go bump in the night now return to their ownership of the night... 

a haunting they will go!

RLJ

Self-Control

(prologue)

Just exhibit a little of self-control for a couple more nights!

Soon enough, the horror can begin in earnest!

RLJ

 

SELF-CONTROL

(Fairfax, VA)

Tonight is the night before Halloween and everybody knows what tomorrow brings!

The Halloween night is always a dark night where human imaginations get to run wild!

Costumes and candy and visiting door to door is the appeal for the humans, young and old.

Everyone stalks this night... even the evil ones who realize they should hold in the horror, at least until

  the night of November first!

RLJ

PREY

 

 (prologue)

What eats the largest fish in the lake?

Something larger and more formidable!

And, perhaps, does not belong there!

RLJ

PREY

(Whitefish Lake, MN)

Ah, this beautiful place surrounding still another fantastic lake in this wild state!

Whitefish is on the menu for tonight... Mark Roland just has to catch a couple of them!

There are some big ones out here in the middle of the lake and he is determined to catch

 one!

There it is... one just hit his hook... something stronger and much larger that his

 prey... so large, in fact, he recoiled in horror when it launched itself straight into his boat!

RLJ

LITTLE PROTECTORS

 

(prologue)

What, exactly, is the reason Halloween is not a monster led bloodbath of carnage and blood?

See the little protectors for the answer to the question!

RLJ

LITTLE PROTECTORS

(Herndon, VA)

Deep in the woods intertangled in neighborhoods in this city are caves, holes and other 

hiding places!

As Halloween approaches, horror entities lay in wait for their time to rise up and haunt the 

darkness!

They are eager to wreck Halloween horror and carnage... but, something profound keeps 

them at bay!

All those little horrors protecting the humans -- ghost, ghouls, clowns and all kinds of little

 horrors -- protect the humans from harm every Halloween night!

RLJ

TO DREAM YOU MUST SLEEP

 

(Prologue)

"To dream you must sleep," declared the doctor as he stared into the vacant eyes of his

 patient!

TO DREAM YOU MUST SLEEP

(Raleigh, NC)

How long can profoundly acute insomniac Rob Mannix stay sane if he never allows himself 

to fall asleep?

A man's mind must shut down to recharge sometime, right... even after two weeks of 

waking torture!

Will the vivid hallucinations, from burnt-out brain cells, finally shut down his brain 

involuntarily?

On the other side of this madness comes the horror inherent to his permanent mental asylum

 confinement!     

RLJ

ANYTHING FOR FOOD

 

(Prologue)

A human can do anything to put food in his people's belly!

RLJ

ANYTHING FOR FOOD

(Somewhere, someplace, in time in the Horrorwalker World)

I saw it flying overhead, through the trees, in the dark night sky... a shadow in front of the 

backdrop of twinkling stars!

It looked like a huge dragon with bat-like wings and a long trailing tail wavering in the rear!

And it obviously saw me because it was making a slow turn to head back in my direction!

All I had to defend myself was my hunting knife... and, during its attack, I eventually used 

my bare hands to kill it... and now we feast on this beast's meat!

RLJ

THE ROAD THROUGH HORROR

 

(prologue)

A cross country car drive, now along a deep south dark country road... 

just might be the road through horror!

RLJ

THE ROAD THROUGH HORROR (3)

(Little River, SC)

It has been said that the winding road through horror is a ride through imagined hell!

Death is on a mile, terror is on another mile, the supernatural is on a mile and blood is 

everywhere!

Manny Gomez is driving down this country road, in the moonless night, in deep south 

South Carolina!

 The ride from Killeen, Texas to Wilmington, NC, is about to meet all the criteria for a

 horror ride... down a long country road... in the darkness... and the horror begins... NOW!

RLJ

A GHOST IN MY ATTIC

 (prologue)

No, those are not squirrels bumping around in your sealed attic!

RLJ 

A GHOST IN MY ATTIC

(Amityville, NY)

"There goes the sounds again," whispered an annoyed Alex Mayo as he looked up at his 

living room ceiling!

Above the ceiling is the floor to the dark crawlspace that serves as the attic for his house!

Something exists up there that is invisible to his personal investigations... always vanishing 

when he opens the attic hatch!

It is now whispering like hushed secrets... keeping him up and awake for still another 

night... making him question, "Do I have a ghost in my attic?"!

RLJ

FOR THE LOVE OF FOOTBALL

 

(prologue)

Does anyone really mean it when they declare they love football more than life itself?

RLJ

FOR THE LOVE OF FOOTBALL

(Knoxville, TN)

Maggie Hubbard, hardcore football fan, swore a football oath to her husband when they got 

married twenty years ago!

She swore to him that she was a forever fan of the local football team... and orange blood 

flowed inside her!

She swore that if she died before him, he should prepare himself now for her return from 

the grave... for the love of football!

Tonight, on this date, six months after her death at 72-years-old, Max heard her signature 

three knocks on the back door of the house... and the horror began!

RLJ

SOUNDS FROM THE SEWER

(Prologue)

In a horror world, 

weird children sounds coming from dark places are NEVER a good thing!

Investigate at your own risk!

RLJ

 

SOUNDS FROM THE SEWER

(New York City, NY)

As John Brown walked the five blocks to his Brownstone home, he was lost in thought.

Work today had been very busy and he was focused on a shower, a shave and a sandwich!

And as usual, when he stepped over the sewer lid near his house, he could hear those 

unnerving sounds!

It sounded like children laughing... and he has heard it for two months... and tonight he 

decided to investigate... and the horror began!

RLJ

BULL IN THE CHINA SHOP

 

(Prologue)

The truth hurts, even in a Horrorwalker World of horror!

RLJ

BULL IN THE CHINA SHOP

(Washington, DC)

Horror is this China shop that is as big as a country and as broken as a dry twig!

This China shop is filled with thin skin, delusional thinking and pathetic little broken men!

This China shop is a dead space full of the ugliest mind-sets in this country... and the world!

The horror festering in the China shop must be doused out with love and peace... but often 

times, in a Horror World, prosperity comes only after calamity happens! 

RLJ

WINGS

 

(Prologue)

Out there in the woods, a lone hunter might become the prey!)

WINGS

(Jasper, AL)

Bert Sass held tight to his hunting rifle as a scene of horror enveloped him!

He is now in a "What the hell" scenario and he could not believe his own eyes and ears!

Something with huge wings and huge claws swooped down from the surrounding trees, 

grabbed his adult buck and flew off away from his position!

The creature was now gone... but suddenly Bert heard equally large wings coming in hot 

and fast behind him!

RLJ

 

WHY AM I ALIVE AGAIN

 

(Prologue)

Ann Sears died thirty-one days ago of measles!

She recently awakened, confused and mortified, from her death!

Now, she ponders why is she alive again!

RLJ

WHY AM I ALIVE AGAIN

(Bangor, Maine)

I woke up dead again but, as usual, I don't know if I will go asleep tonight alive!

It has taken me three long days to work my fingers limber enough to hold this pen!

I am writing these words on this scrap paper to leave something that says I lived again!

Who knows why I am alive again, decomposed and addled, but at least I don't have a 

taste for human flesh or brains!

RLJ

HERE SHE COMES AGAIN

(Prologue)

Her name is Olga!

She looks like a thirty-year-old blonde haired Nordic beauty!

But she is something else, indeed... as all men discover, to their horror!

RLJ

 

(an excerpt)

HERE SHE COMES AGAIN

(Dallas, TX)

Albert Cruz is in a situationship with the most awesomely fearsome woman he has ever met!

She is as beautiful as she is cold to the touch, because, she is a two hundred year old

 vampire!

Her eyes say yes... as they say I will tear apart your soul if my hunger ever overtakes me

 when we are together!

He thanks god she kills her food out of his sight... coming to him for feral sex without small 

talk, leaving him there broken and fearing her next return!

RLJ

THEY MIGHT FOLLOW YOU HOME

 

(Prologue)

Fish the river, explore the land, meet the native people of this ancient land and respect the

 spirits! Disrespect the spirits and they might follow you home!

RLJ

THEY MIGHT FOLLOW YOU HOME

(Shiprock, NM)

Before white men moved into what is now New Mexico, native American people owned

 this land!

For untold centuries they worked this land, fished the river and grew their families full of 

pride!

The Navajo know this land and they live with their strong memories of their one-with-the 

land ancestors!

Sometimes those ancestors rise up from the land to bring balance between disrespectful man

 and land... and they might follow you home to complete the task!

RLJ

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT

 

(Prologue)

The most beautiful places on the planet can hold the darkest secrets.

Good thing for humans that they usually have to see out the darkness!

RLJ

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT

(Moultonborough Falls, NH)

The odd sounds creep out from the countless darkened places wet with cold waterfall mist!

This ancient place is as old as earthly time, mostly appearing today as it did a million

 years ago!

There are horrors to be found here if you are brave enough to follow the ominous sounds...

 at night!

Robert Sands has decided that tonight is the night to trek where modern man has not dared

 to explore... let the horror commence! 

RLJ

THE WOODS WE KNOW

(Prologue)

Bears do not sleep the was they used to, 

therefore they are always hungrier than they should be... 

and humans are on the menu, too!

RLJ

 

THE WOODS WE KNOW

(Anchorage, Alaska)

The woods around and through this great American city are dangerous and scary!

People have to live and move about the landscape in order to live out their lives!

Just around and corner, just behind any tree, just on the other side of a car can hide brutal

 death!

Alaskans reminisce about the good old days considering the woods they know... but today,

 with so much warm air and hunger out there, it's the woods they once knew!

RLJ

UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS

(Prologue)

Where does horror begin to exert itself?

Why, look down at the very earth beneath your feet!)

 

UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS

(Erin, Tenn.)

The caves have been carved into the limestone by centuries and centuries of eroding water!

Unbeknownst to the residents, the sand under their feet sits perilously over only a few yards

 of deep blackness and cold water!

Maw like entrances are visible from a boat off the river, hiding their darkness in plain sight!

Ancient things of nightmares are hidden down in the limestone caves... and all they need is

 one sacrifice to bring them back to the surface!

RLJ

THINGS IN THE SEWERS

(Prologue)

Rivers give people power, food, recreation and sometimes HORROR!

RLJ

 

(Sample)

THINGS IN THE SEWERS

(Fort Smith, AK)

The Arkansas river is another ancient river navigated over time by all kinds of life!

Wild places like this part of North America are filled with memories of life long hidden!

Take the toothed ancient water creatures the Native Americans battled and tamed and ate!

They are still out there in the woods and lakes and rivers... and they are the things in the

 sewers, too!

RLJ

IF I COULD TOUCH A CLOUD

 

(prologue)

The river water of the Potomac flows fast and relentlessly! 

But even eons of river flow cannot wash away the memories of the dead!

RLJ

IF I COULD TOUCH A CLOUD

(Leesburg, VA)

All along the bank of the Potomac River rests the bones of the forgotten dead!

All of the songs and the poetry, the very memories, of the lives lost saturate the sand!

Someone at some time must have looked up into the sky and asked, no, pleaded to God!

He must have said, God, if only I could touch a cloud would I be delivered from this

 sufferable existence away from my homeland and the people I know!

RLJ

OFF THE OCEAN (3)

(Prologue)

Paradise right there on the beach, off the ocean, is heaven on earth! 

Does heaven extend into the ocean?

RLJ

OFF THE OCEAN (3)

(Kure Beach, NC)

Another angry storm is blowing in off the warm ocean between Myrtle Beach and

 Wilmington!

Todd Bryant is standing on the awesomely huge Kure Beach pier standing monolithic-like 

on the beach and in the water!

Are there Redfish, Fluke, Spot or Mackerel swirling in the agitated water way down 

beneath his bare feet?

 Or are there monsters down there with sharp teeth, strong suckers or poisoned barbs blown 

in from... Off The Ocean!

RLJ

REVENGE

 

(Prologue)

What else is left, except revenge, when the zombie hoard has murdered your only 

living companion!

RLJ

REVENGE

(Cedar Grove, NC)

Betty Ostrander last re-killed another soulless zombie yesterday afternoon!

The infected shambler was wearing a police uniform... with handgun and uniform!

Now armed and dangerous with a gun, Betty now felt empowered enough to seek revenge!

The only supermarket in this small town was zombie filled... and full of canned food... and

 hid the monster that killed and ate Joel!

RLJ

THE LEGAL SERIAL KILLER

(Prologue)

Give the devil you know lethal power over you,

do not act shocked when they become the legal serial killer!

RLJ

 THE LEGAL SERIAL KILLER

(Washington, DC)

You voted me to be the leader of your police force... now I can kill you at will.

You voted me to be the leader of your armed forces... now you will suffer my bloody

 madness!

You, by proxy, voted me into the Supreme Court... now watch me kill you, by proxy!

And like many other examples of Americans voting into power human monsters they

 already know are psychotic, it is the legal serial killers haunt this Horrorwalker World 

the most!

RLJ

SO SAYS THE MIRROR

((prologue)

Look into the mirror and the truth will be told!

RLJ

SO SAYS THE MIRROR

(Princeton, NJ)

Standing in his steamy bathroom, Matthew Peters has finally realized, and accepted, his 

reality!

Now staring in the bathroom mirror, at 75-years-old, he is so, so close to meeting death!

As of the next second of his life, as to any second in his future, fear is now in him!

The surprise death has for him as he ages out... the surprise death tolls... is right there in the 

bathroom mirror, staring back at him!

RLJ

AFRAID OF A MOUSE

(Prologue)

Margo West cannot call the exterminator until tomorrow morning!

Tonight will be a long night, indeed!

RLJ

 

AFRAID OF A MOUSE

(New Orleans, LA)

There is a mouse in Margo West's house and tonight she can hear it squeaking, again, behind

 the wall!

As she now sits bolt upright in her bed with all the lights on, how can she possibly sleep?

She is not going to track that little monster down so that it can jump up and get in her hair!

And, "Damn it," she just whispered as she focused on another squeak on the other side of

 the room... oh, the horror in this upcoming very long night!

RLJ

TALES FROM THE OLD OAK TREES (3)

(Prologue)

Sometimes even Ghosts need to vent to someone!

RLJ

 

TALES FROM THE OLD OAK TREES (3)

(Manassas, Virginia)

Perry Langley has owned his home on his six acres of Virginia land for forty-one years!

Two ancient Oak Trees, spaced twenty feet apart, occupy an impressive area in the backyard.

He estimates the trees to be over two hundred years old... and they have lived through some

 things!

He knows that because the ghosts in the hanging limbs talk to him at night, every night, and 

cry for the Virginia blood spilt from their limbs!

RLJ

WHERE ARE ALL THE DANDELIONS

Ecology, in this Horrorwalker World!

RLJ

WHERE ARE ALL THE DANDELIONS

(Herndon, Virginia)

This summer, the Horrorwalker World appears to have experienced an unexpected horror

 shift!

The hard evidence is right there on the ground, in the green grass, beneath every person's

 feet!

The world is very stressed right now and... and the plant life and humankind feel that stress!

All the tough Dandelions fled the soil this year, they are all gone... and the horror in this

 horror world is now coming from the ground up!

RLJ

WAY UP HERE NEAR THE BORDER

(Prologue)

Isolation, cold and forests hides all kinds of horror things. 

Ask the hardened Northern people of this state filled with horrors!

RLJ

 WAY UP HERE NEAR THE BORDER

(Allagash, Maine)

Way up here on the map of the United States, one might as well be a Canadian as be an

 American!

Other than the few battered hardened souls, who knows what goes on up here in this feral

 land!

All these ancients woods, on both sides of the borders, shares all kinds of old world horror

 and things!

We up here are fearless, hard and chase down the horrors that emerge from the icy forests...

 things regular Americans will never know exists!

RLJ

HALLOWEEN WEATHER

(Prologue)

Better Halloween weather, Cold or rainy or drab or warm!

Debate!

RLJ

 HALLOWEEN WEATHER

(Plymouth, Mass.)

The season is changing during this early October week and you can sense it coming off the 

harbor!

The harbor water smells a little different, the fish are slowing their dangerous games and the 

waves crest with less invitation.

And all the horror things, both large and small and human or not, know the changes mean

prey will soon arrive!

Halloween season, when all horror fantasies and horror realities clash and interact, hoping 

for the best Halloween weather!

RLJ