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The housemaid saw her and thought she looked beautiful in the moonlight like a young goddess come to earth for some purpose. “You there. Are you hungry, would you like to sit by the fire?” The girl backed away into the shadows for she feared showing herself. She frightened people with her teeth. ABOUT THE AUTHOR BLOG Carole Gill was [...]
Mandy watched her date over the rim of a martini glass. His eyes were slightly squinted, taking in the expensive electronic equipment, the furniture, and the extensive DVD and CD collection. “Sebastian—that’s his name, isn’t it?” Mandy asked herself. Oh well, Sebastian or Sinbad or whoever he was looked like a predator casing her possessions, and that’s what she liked [...]
Ok, going to the dentist is not at the top of anyone’s’ list, but you know, I like to go. Call me crazy, call me nut-so, but there’s something to be said about the cleanliness, and the comfortable chair…oh alright, I go because my dentist is drop dead gorgeous. Oh my lord, I’d do anything for him and not complain [...]
INTERVIEW WITH LAUREN CURTIS Above is Lauren’s newest piece in her x-ray series. She is a freelance illustrator and fine artist. She has been involved in the Wiccan/Pagan and Gothic communities for many years. Her work reflects her interests in mythology, (especially Egyptian, Celtic, and Greco-Roman), spirituality, the Occult, and dark fantasy. Lauren works in many mediums, such as pen [...]
WARNING: ADULT SEXUAL CONTENT GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING The heavily tattooed bouncer at the Ass-U-Like-It strip club stood outside the entrance squeezing tightly on the nozzle of a hose. He held it close to his beer belly and aimed downward, in a hurry to spray a mix of beads, plastic cups, and other Mardi Gras debris into the street. The bulldozer [...]
‘How much for this?’ Sadie asked, handling the purple, green and yellow coloured-glass bead necklace. ‘That, my dear, it’s nothing but a cheap glass trinket of no real value. If you’re looking for jewellery, we have some beautiful jet necklaces or pearls.’ The woman moved across the junk shop with a grace and speed that belied her obvious age as [...]
The streets were packed. The noise nearly deafening, all of New Orleans it seemed was alive with the fun and excitement of Mardi Gras and this was Shrove Tuesday, the best night. “This is the biggest parade,” Scott said. “Look!” Dany looked incredulous. “It’s fabulous!” ABOUT THE AUTHOR BLOG Carole Gill was selected by North West Playwrights of England for [...]
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 [...]
And so it begins, the Mardi Gras madness…. she thought. ABOUT THE AUTHOR BLOG Nicole Hadaway is the Vamplit published author of Release and the sequel Return to be released this fall. As a former lawyer, Nicole Hadaway knows all about bloodsuckers and deals with the devil. She currently lives in Texas where she pens such tales of horror, usually [...]
She saw the circus flyer pinned to a lamppost on the corner of the dilapidated street where she lived. She paused, only for a moment, it wasn’t the kind of neighbourhood it was safe to pause longer in, but she was hooked. Now, all they had to do was wait and one thing the damned are good at is waiting. [...]
They didn’t thrill him anymore: the high wire acts, the trapeze artists, the lion tamer tempting death. Nothing about the circus got his juices flowing. The man left in mid-show, walking out into the windy, autumn night. “Where the hell are Bradbury’s October People anyhow?” the man asked out loud with a laugh. ABOUT THE AUTHOR BLOG Timothy C. Hobbs [...]
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 [...]
They were known as the Flying Vladkos. The greatest high-wire act to come along in decades. They played all the great cities of Europe. Places like Berlin, Paris and London adored them. They admired their daring. You see they insisted on performing without a net. “We do not require one for we are skilled at what we do!” ABOUT THE [...]
There is something to be said about full moons…they are truly a sight to behold. Which remind me, the story I am about to tell is a doozy. I was heading for the circus as I got out of my car. It was a warm summer night and as you may guess, a full moon was out as well. I [...]
This is last week’s #fridayflash for Vamplit, but unfortunately I’m starting the new year behind on editing. Part 2 will come next week with a story about Mardi Gras. -W.J. Howard On their way home from fishing in their favorite pond, Kevin lagged back behind his older brother Matt and Matt’s friend Joey. He had stopped to slip out of [...]
Armando Venzinie had been a very bad man when he’d been alive. When he was a child, he’d tortured animals and other children, as an adult he committed crimes against property, stealing from the rich and poor, beating any who stood in his way. Everyone around him, including his parents, knew he was evil, but could do nothing to stop [...]
Warning: graphic violence and imagery! “It’s no use running because we’ll catch you!” The three demon clowns were closing in. It might not have been any use, but he ran anyway. He ran all the way down the station platform, got to the end and just stopped. He knew he was licked. It wasn’t until he heard the approach of [...]
It was raining the day the circus came to town. I remember crying, afraid my father wouldn’t take me because of the weather. But we did go, and by the time The Greatest Show On Earth started, the rain had stopped and the sky outside the Big Top had cleared. All the acts were great: the animals, the acrobatic and [...]
A tale is told to the meek and old, a tale as old as the sea. So, listen carefully to my tale, its as gruesome as it can be. ABOUT THE AUTHOR BLOG 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 [...]
‘Will they come, do you think?’ I ask my beloved bonded other. He smiles and shrugs his shoulders in an obvious gesture of resignation. He and I have come a long way from our childhood on Earth, so far in fact, that we’ve become famous, become freaks. ‘You know they’ll come, Astrid, they always come.’ ‘Why us, Adonis?’ I raise [...]
“Freaks get bullied it’s as simple as that.” Baby Alice wept. “And we are freaks!” Poor woman. She was the fat lady in the circus. And what an unhappy lady she was. Al and Hank nodded because what she said was true. Baby Alice sniffled. “You oughtta hear what this guy said to me. He’s been coming around regular too. [...]
The meeting began promptly. A towering and decomposing hulk of a creature lurched up to the front of the class and announced: “I’m Harvey and I’m a zombie!” The other zombies were on their feet applauding. “Good on you, Harv!” “Way to go!” Harvey was over come. Well, over come for a zombie is kind of different than for anyone [...]
She lived in the woods, far from others. At her age, solitude was preferred over gossip and having to do things for others. The people in the town had first thought she was quaint, the little old woman who lived in the wood cabin, built out of the base of the gigantic oak tree. Some thought of her as a [...]
The mean streets of the city, their city—the stomping grounds for those undead who walk the earth damned, forever cursed and ostracized from the living. Look! One of them comes along now—more undead, vampires all– following him. His voice is a plaintive cry of supposed joy: “When you’re a Vamp you’re a Vamp all the way from your first taste [...]
Christopher missed his father every day but now on this first Christmas without him it was worse for it was on Christmas Eve last that his father had taken his own life. Yes, another seasonal suicide. His father had been a writer by profession. But he had also been a waiter, bus driver, hospital porter, salesman, hamburger flipper, taxi driver [...]
Tootie McBootie was America’s sweetheart and the biggest star Vapitt Pictures had. And boy were they cashing in on her popularity! There were Tootie dishes and pillows and Tootie dolls of course. There were even Tootie dresses. Why Tootie was all over the place. The public adored her pictures—who hadn’t seen all of Tootie’s somewhat sugary films? Films like: Tootie’s [...]
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, except dear old Klaus The clothes were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that the blood smell still would be there. The coven were nestled all dead in their beds, While visions of horror played in their heads And Katherine in her [...]
Welcome to week 3 and 4 of the holiday horror movies reviews by Gaynor Stenson and Wendy Howard. Apologies for two weeks in one post. Illnesses got in the way last week. Don’t forget to leave a comment in the current week’s post to enter a weekly drawing to win a free Vamplit novel of your choice. You can also [...]
The boxes removed from the attic days ago were littered across the living room floor opened but not emptied. The strings of lights, the tinsel icicles, the plastic wreaths, the ceramic Santa and snowman for the fireplace mantel, and the imitation tree lay in wait, but all he could do was sit in the gloomy room and stare at them [...]
ABOUT THE ARTIST Gaynor Stenson is a designer of logos and artwork for Vamplit. Basically I went to art college but I’m not keen on the establishment. No one knew. Not the police or his own family. His niece was the only one that knew. He saw the look of sad recognition in her eyes, just a flicker of intense [...]
Here is Blazes book cover. He asked for a 68 Buick GS 400, black with flames and dice, and the presence of a demon possibly, witch..but I liked this demon very much.
Snow fell outside our window, in flakes big and fluffy. It was the kind of snow that blanketed the ground within minutes and what was left was pure glimmer. The ground twinkled and winked as my eyes scanned the ground…I wondered if heaven looked this good. My sister and I sat next to our tree that stood in our living [...]
Welcome to week 2 of the holiday horror movies reviews by Gaynor Stenson and Wendy Howard. We are reviewing movies as we find time to watch them through the holidays. Every Tuesday we’ll tell you what we’ve watched and what we thought about each of the movies here in the Vamplit Blog. Leave a comment and enter a weekly drawing [...]
This week we’re sharing our Thanksgiving traditions and recipes. Add a comment and share you own traditions and recipes. Below are our author’s and contributor’s. Sue Mydliak Growing up my mother and father would be preparing the Thanksgiving dinner while my twin and I would watch the parades still in our jammies. Then as it got closer to dinner time, [...]
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 [...]
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