Issue 37: #fridayflash Mardi Gras

Vamplit Novels at Smashwords

• The Courier Episode One: Call for Obstruction
  In the first episode, Barry has just lost his fourth jobs in the past year due to corporate downsizing. Desperate for employment, he jumps at the first position he?s offered over the phone, driver for OTG Courier Services. Shortly after meeting his new boss, a tiny yet fiery old lady named Margery, she coerces him into signing a questionable employment contr […]
• Music Box Sonata
  At the top of a steep cliff a derelict church serves its congregation of dust, cobwebs and birds roosting in the rafters. One human occupant lives there hidden in the cellar. He is cursed never walk in the tortuous sunlight, but to roam the woods on the cliff at night in the form of a hideous beast struggling with the violent desire to kill while striving to […]
• Demonic Passion
  When Honey Sewell meets her favorite author late at night in a bar, she does not expect to be swept off her feet and into a bizarre web of romance, lies, mystery, and intrigue. She is also confused by his mysterious relationship with another female. However, when she finds out Freddie?s biggest secret, she must choose between love and life. […]
• Birthright
  (4.17) Candra Rosewood returns to Utica, but she's already missed her parents funeral and everything she thought about her life turns out to be a lie.When Kane turns up unannounced on her doorstep, Candra, fights her strange need for him.Is he somehow involved in her parents?death? Is the mysterious Mr Bennet a friend or foe, and can she trust him when […]
• Vampyre Quest
  London 1888. Jack the ripper is at large. A Dutch vampyre hunter, Van Diermann, arrives seeking the help of his masonicbrethren to track down a vampyre that threatens their order.By a twist of fate the vampyre escapes leaving Van Diermann cursed with the sameblood lust. The hunter has become the hunted.Over 100 years later a ships log is found by a fisherman […]
• The House on Blackstone Moor
  (4.65) This is a tale of vampirism, madness, obsession and devil worship as Rose Baines, only survivor of her family?s carnage, tells her story.Fragile, damaged by the tragedy, fate sends her to a desolate house on the haunted moors where demons dwell.The house and the moors have hideous secrets, yet there is love too; deep, abiding, eternal, but it comes wi […]
• The Beast of St John's Cove
  A woman?s naked body on the beach foreshadows the evil that is about to descend upon the peaceful manor of St John?s Cove. The griffin has awoken and the only thing that can keep the people safe is to sacrifice a young virgin on every full moon. In this classic Gothic romance Rebecca and Eavan, the blind guardian of St John?s Cove, fight to defeat a very rea […]
• Emun of Mor
  Trolls, goblins, orcs and an army of darkness will pit itself against the might and magic of men in a classic fantasy.Can the magic of men and faith of the Holy Order overcome the alliance of the goblins and the armies of the undead as they scourge the land of the living?The Prophecy speaks of one who will come with the power to defeat evil, but can the spaw […]
• Dear Diary: Daily Thoughts of a Serial Killer
  (4.00) A top model has become obsessed with retaining her youthful looks to prolong her career. After hearing a photographer commenting on air brushingsmall lines around her eyes she goes off the deep end spending days researching anti-aging products and procedures. A story about Countess ElizabethBáthory,the Blood Countess, plants the seed of using blood to […]
• The Smell of Ginger
  It's Halloween in Jasper, Texas and Butch and Suzy are driving with their dad to trick or treat at the strip mall and the local churches. They didn't count on the truck breaking down, getting lost in the woods, or coming across the ordinary old cabin, but there's nothing ordinary about the tenents - two spinster sisters who have been waiting e […]
• New Orleans 1842
  (5.00) From the author of Release, Nicole Hadaway, 'New Orleans, 1842' tells the story of Miranda's stay in the new city. All young vampires are expected to spend time on their own in the human world and Miranda chooses the humid, but exciting New Orleans. In a world, different and dangerous compared to her parents' safe New York home, th […]
• The Rise of Deadhand
  The Rise of Deadhand is a magical tale of mages, goblins, zombies and animated skeletons surrounds the transformation of a young boy into an angry, vengeful necromancer, against a backdrop of the machinations of Empirical and noble families, as well as the activities of ancient spirits and sub-human races. […]
• Descending Skies
  Descending Skies by Margaret Schlegel is a magical, science fiction fantasy set in a world where magic is science and the laws of nature do not apply. Andrew Granger, is dead and then he is not, but to his amazement awakening from death gives him a whole new chance at life. Andrew might be the hero his new world needs or will the treachery and power struggle […]
• The Dancing Dead
  The Dancing Dead is a collect of vampire poems written over a number of years. This collection of poetry is not intended to be dark and uses the vampire as a metaphor for modern life. Lady Dracula is actually a response to the banking crisis and many of the poems have feminist themes. […]
• The Pumpkin Seed
  (4.50) ?I am a drinker of human blood and an eater of human flesh, a monster dressed in the skin of a man.? So states Charles, the main character of the novel, after being infected with a virus transmitted by an insect vector. The horror is set loose on the world by a man driven mad by injustice and oppression. In a novel spanning three hundred years the vam […]
• Release
  (5.00) Ben never imagined meeting vampires, let alone demons and werewolves, whilst in the Polish Resistance during World War II. Far from being horrified, Ben discovers that Miranda and her friends have very useful talents, especially when it comes to saving children from concentration camps. In desperate times the line between good and evil is clear, the o […]
• Swan Song
  (4.25) Katrina Collins isn?t like other musicians, she doesn?t do interviews and no one has ever seen her outside of her musical arena. Her beauty is startling, her effect upon an audience mesmerising. Lewis Morrison isn?t like any other music journalist, as he despises music and loathes musicians. They find each other and their discovery brings hope, redemp […]
• Dance on Fire
  (5.00) Two Kingsburg police officers have been butchered in an attack as ferocious as it is mystifying. Now two detectives and their families are being drawn into a battle that threatens to destroy them and those around them. In a marriage of horror and Christian themes of good conquering evil and redemption, Dance on Fire is the fictional account of charact […]