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Paul was satiated with Mardi Gras: the wild clamor of laughter, the jazz music, the heavy layers of gold, green, and purple beads swinging from bodies crowding the booby balconies, and, most of all, the vast portions of oysters, crayfish, gumbo, beer and Hurricanes he had forced into a rebellious stomach. Paul slid from the bed and stumbled to the [...]
I’m off prompt today, trying to catch up on stories I’ve written but not edited. This week I’m posting my Undead New Year’s story and earlier this week I posted 4 and 20 Clowns (Part 1), which really goes with this week’s theme, but part 2 won’t be ready until next week. -W.J. Howard I don’t know what I was [...]
I can’t imagine being soulless, in fact the very thought scared me and that there wasn’t very many things that had. Sitting in my living room, I realized that I hadn’t been told her name or anything about her life. The only remembrance of her was this picture that hung above the mantel. She was a vision, beautiful, with ivory [...]
I’m afraid my #fridayflash is a little bit of a cheat as I wrote this poem some years ago. When I accidentally entered the artwork I produced for this poem in this months artwork for horrific visions I decided to give the poem a quick edit and add it to the painting.
A Baroness’s Tale Arguably, one of the greatest exorcists the UK has ever known was the late, Reverend Christopher Neil-Smith who sadly left us in 1995. Reverend Neil-Smith was a High Anglican Priest and a very respected man in both his church office and within the community at large within which he worked. In his memoirs he speaks openly about [...]
She heard the music, Danse Macabre, and then she knew, she wasn’t alone… Sadie Gray entered the competition by accident really; she was having coffee alone after a long morning shopping for a new, but cheap, sofa when she heard someone at the next table reading an article from the local paper. When they’d left, she noticed they’d left the [...]
The vampire strolled down the nursing home hallway. He wore a fuchsia polo shirt and tan khakis. A pair of brown loafers covered his bare feet. His alabaster skin gleamed under the dimmed lights, his pale beautiful face markedly outlined in a cave of black hair falling loosely to his shoulders. Most of the aged and infirm residents were deep [...]
“The demolition crew found the corpse, right?” Detective Mike Brandon asked his partner. It was almost seven pm. “No,” Mason Phelps answered, glancing at the paperwork spread out on his desk. “Remember how the city started sending crews in to make sure a condemned house was empty of any living thing?” Mike grinned. “Yeah. That raccoon family got wiped out [...]
A Report By Jevron McCrory Confession upfront; (one I think I already made in my debut novella, Swan Song’s Author Notes) I’m absolutely obsessed with the 1987 vampire flick The Lost Boys. Ridiculously so. This isn’t news to anyone who knows me. (Honestly, it may not even be news to those that don’t). So when my friend’s girlfriend casually announced that not [...]
Cottonwood, Texas 1890 The soulful cry of a whippoorwill floated on the wind. Lonnie sighed in his sleep and reached across to hold his wife only to find a vacant, cold spot. Lonnie opened his eyes. A figure holding a candle approached. “Paw Paw’s outside,” Lonnie’s ten-year-old son Jacob said. Lonnie slid from under the covers and pulled a robe [...]
Sadie felt the breeze on her face and smiled, it wouldn’t be sensible to be seen without her mask. Only a few, a privileged few, from the village had been invited to the ball and she didn’t want to be sent home in disgrace. The invitation had stated categorically that masks must be worn at all times, but it was [...]
She’s one of the undead that lives off the blood of the innocent. Her days are our nights and yet she doesn’t seem to mind. She’s the seductress; and needs to be, yet it all seems so natural for her. As she walks down the street at night, her long dark tresses fan out behind her like the fan tail [...]
Every Wednesday, Vamplit Publishing hosts #humpday #horrorchat, a way for us all to share our favorite things about horror while tweeting on Twitter. THIS WEEK’S TOPIC Vampire Romance Our horror chat is open to everyone whether you are a writer, publisher, film maker, artist, gamer, magazine or just someone who loves horror. Remember this is a fun and promotional chat. [...]
He called it his hidden place and he never showed anyone where it was. As he grew-up, he forgot its existence, blanked out everything he’d seen there. Some things you should forget, some things you shouldn’t. This story is about Gil’s hidden place, where evil lived and dead fed off the living. “Shut up you cankerous old sow,” Gil shouted, [...]
Inside my cold heart is a haunted place a lonely spot devoid of grace. Where the souls of the dead dwell in an ocean of pain, cresting the wave’s swell. Inside my dead heart is a haunted place reflected within in a mortal face. Pictures of all the dead I’ve devoured and all the virgin soul’s I’ve deflowered. [...]
This is a strange #fridayflash for me to offer, but this week I was faced with challenges in two places Twitter #fridayflash and in the Vamplit group Dark Poets Corner in Dark Media City. The challenge laid down by Rob Read, winner of last years Vamplit writing challenge, was to write a dark poem based on the structure and form [...]
“What is it Sir?” She heard the boy ask. She couldn’t really hear, nor see, but she could sense everything or one who passed near her. “That’s Sadie Gray Thomas, can anyone tell me about this exhibit?” She heard the question and felt depressed, another school trip. They were the worse, asking questions, giggling and generally being obnoxious. At any [...]
Sue Mydliak is the Vamplit published author of Birthright. 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 [...]
Every Wednesday, Vamplit Publishing hosts #humpday #horrorchat, a way for us all to share our favorite things about horror while tweeting on Twitter. This Week’s Topic Best Performance in the Role of Dracula Who do you think played Dracula best? Our horror chat is open to everyone whether you are a writer, publisher, film maker, artist, gamer, magazine or just someone [...]
I’m a little late again this week because I wrote my story and hated the format, so I changed it to read more like a poem. Much better in my opinion. Hope you enjoy it. -W. J. Howard ——- It fell from the sky, onto the pavement, leaving a slight divot before it rolled to the curb. On her way [...]
As the sun sank from the sky, Sadie awoke gasping for breath, her first in twelve hours. The end of each night brought another death, although brief, still unsettling, unpleasant, but worse were these nightly tortures of coming back to life. After a moment, Sadie looked around the unfamiliar place, still a little disorientated by her unnatural resurrection, and [...]
This is for Twitter #FF #fridayflash–Blogger is not online! So here’s my flash piece: Passage ‘During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the Heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a Singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, [...]
I’ve written this short story for the Twitter #fridayflash. I’ve used our #humpday #horrorchat topic for this week as my inspiration. “The solemn tones of an old cathedral clock have announced midnight—the air is thick and heavy—a strange, death like stillness pervades all nature” Varney, the Vampyre; or The Feast Of Blood, A Romance by Thomas Preskett Prest [...]
William Reese should never have attended that underground nightclub. Even now as he turned off his alarm, he could still hear the blaring music ringing in his ears. He could feel the slamming base from the morbid and exotic rhythms still pounding his belly as the first layers of sleep cobwebs began to flutter away from his consciousness. As it [...]
Alone upon a foggy night, With waxing moon a ghostly light, Resounded wings. My mind contrived a murders flight, While lack of cawing did rewrite, Infernal things. Resigned to capture budding fright; I drew the curtains snugly tight; My nerves hairsprings. And though a superstitious rite; I wore a cross to non-invite, Undead darklings. *** The third hour rings! And [...]
Any Christian worth his/her salt will tell you that the devil will mix truth with lies to confuse you. For quite a time now, the evil one has gone under a new name and his name is Hollywood. Just like his Satanic Majesty, Hollywood will get hold of folklore and twist it out of shape to further its own ends. [...]
At first Miranda worried that she wouldn’t be able to stand the humidity. The heat wasn’t a problem; she was born of a being of fire, after all. It was the water that weakened vampires, and Miranda had worried that the humidity in the air might damage her skin. She was sensing, though, that the city had a magic to [...]
Shadows soft as cobwebs fall,
Cast by ancient, crumbling walls,
Where dwells no rat or even mouse,
In this cursed Charnel House.
Welcome back to the third part of Bloodleggers! In this episode you meet FBI Agent William Knox. William is on his way to Denver, where he’s been reassigned to investigate missing persons cases. We hope you enjoy the read! –W. J. Howard & R. J. Robyn Bloodlegger’s Blog On Twitter @bloodlegger Previous Parts “When you think of the long and [...]
“Louis! You must help me, I can no longer bare being in the same room with him!” Ah! Words spoken by a hysterical woman; a cheating wife no less. This woman and the tale I shall now recount to you is quite a memorable one, to me at least. This is the tale of two men I came to meet—the [...]
Welcome back to the second part of Bloodleggers! This week we introduce Regina Todd, our vampire heroine, although in this part and the next you’re meeting her two years prior to the actual start of the story, when she was still a human. You’ll also meet her uncle, Magnus MacKay, who is slowly becoming a main character. We don’t want [...]
Welcome, all, to the first installment of Bloodleggers. This week we go back in time with the prologue to the story. This exciting piece was written by R.J. Robyn, who had to endure my editing his work for the first time. He wrote about his first experience with me as his editor in the blog post, Crunch Time if you’re [...]
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