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 [...]
This week member Andy Bove asks, what are your favorite urban legends? Share them with us, and let’s take it one step further. Can you create an urban legend? Share it as well. An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or a contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of apocryphal stories believed [...]
“Louis! You must help me, I can no longer bear 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 woman involved was only incidental. The men however are far more memorable as you will see.
I begin by discussing one of them. A gentleman you have no doubt heard of. Sadly he was crazy. Yes, crazy. He was mad, driven nearly insane by his jealous nature. You see he still loved his wife. Yet despite that he had accused her on innumerable occasions of having affairs, which to be fair to him, she was sometimes engaged in. But there were reasons for this as she told me herself.
“He drives me wild, reading passages out loud from the bible! Even our child cannot stand it. I plead with him to stop but he will not listen, oh Louis what am I to do?”
I didn’t know. I had in my time come across murderous religious zealots, so fired up with their hate-filled agenda that they sent thousands to their deaths.
Welcome to a new monthly section that says goodbye to our monster of the month until next year. Going forward, on the last day of each month, we will post fun, 50 word stories and poems written throughout the month in honor of our featured monster. These shorts are both funny and horrific, and we [...]
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 [...]
Just as it did with the Vampire and the Werewolf, Hollywood decided that the Zombie, in itself was not horrific enough and needed, shall we say, some tweaking? Hence, all Zombies now are flesh eaters and the only way to destroy them is to sever, in some way, the neural network of the spine from [...]
Zombie n. (in vodou) corpse said to have been revived by witchcraft: (colloq.) person who seems to have no mind or will. (Oxford Popular Dictionary) The story of the Zombie goes right back to the primeval mists of the past, so ancient, that it is difficult to place into a time frame. It’s origins however, are [...]
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 [...]
A Florentine sky at dusk, streaked with orange fire was my backdrop, as I walked along the Ponte Vecchio feeling lonely and dejected.
The city looked magnificent in the half light of fading day and approaching night like a living thing ready for sleep, but perhaps not quite yet.
The taverns were full and voices were raised in song, chatter and laughter too. I listened and sighed. It is difficult to be apart when all around me I see life lived. My existence and I are something else, something apart and yet connected.
I have told you enough of my existence so far for you to know that absolute immortality does bring with it sad and often hopeless isolation. When you are fallen angel spawn and condemned to live forever, forever troubles more than it thrills I fear.
This was how I felt in the spring of 1502 when I, merely out for an evening stroll, happened to see the most fascinating creature—rushing along as though her life depended upon it. She carried herself with such grace and I found myself following, watching her great billowing gown glide smoothly over the cobblestones as if to bless them.
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;
Another night after another day and him rotten just like always, using his eyes to frighten her, using his mouth to curse and torment her.
He’s let her leave the room, this time. Sometimes he doesn’t. It depends on his mood.
She can’t even remember what the fight was over; something stupid, but not to him, never to him.
He doesn’t beat her; his modus of operandi is to kill her slowly, destroying her mind and wearing her down. He wants her to die or to lose what’s left of her soul.
The word “poltergeist” comes from the German “poltern”, meaning to bluster, jangle or rumble. “geist” simply means spirit and together, Poltergeist translates as “noisy spirit”. The word poltergeist also relates to a type of speech; to talk loudly or/and abrasively.
Announcing Bloodleggers, a new serial vampire novel releasing the last Wednesdays of the month here on Blood Reads. The story is about FBI Agent William Knox, who is sent to Denver to investigate a rash of missing persons. There he meets indentured vampire, Regina Todd, and together they unravel a dark maze of crime syndicates, secret blood running, and humans turning on their own kind. Don’t miss the first installment of Bloodleggers on June 30th. Return for nterviews with the authors on June 16th.
I felt like an artist admiring my handiwork, she was after all my creation, an exquisite corpse. In life some would have said she was pretty. I, myself, didn’t share that opinion. I could see the bog in her, the stinking midden, which flowed too near to her birthplace I could see and smell that as well.
Yet when I first saw her move with the unmistakable sauntering gait of the street walker, I was fascinated, the way a lion might be staring at his prey.
I smiled and said something. She took my interest as flattering, my conversation as exciting. I saw a smile and flash of her teeth, still intact because she was young.
The old church crouched on the corner, ignored. Dawn light crept into the chapel, filtering through dozens of tiny panes of stained glass. The workshop was once a nave, but the only worship now was that of the bald old man hunched over the form of a young lady on a table. There was a scraping as he worked the body, fitting together joints made of wood, plastic, and ceramic with tender care. The curves of the manikin took shape under his thin, gnarled hands. He slid his callused fingers along a newly-smoothed arm and grinned, showing dozens of silver-capped peg teeth.
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