"The wine was enchanting, and its effect, well do you really want to know?"
I picked up the Citroën rental at Toulouse Blagnac Airport, making sure it had satellite navigation and a tank full of fuel. Baggage stowed, I set off for my destination and lover's reunion.My talented artist girlfriend Arianne, lived, in a...
"True Love...Never Dies"
Everything went to complete shit on Halloween night. At least that's what most people who are still "human" would say.But not me because that's the night that fate opened up its door and gave me the woman of my dreams....
"Have you ever had a recurring nightmare?"
She disliked her name, Elvira, up until just recently. She always went by Elle, which helped her to avoid the references to the Oak Ridge Boys. Her parents named her after the character Elvira, Mistress of the dark. Tonight, she...
"The myths come to life."
She gazed out through the raindrop dappled glass doors. There had been a harsh, thunderous rainfall last night. The web appeared intact, at least partially. The spider was still and unmoving. The golden patterned arachnid must have been slowly moving up...
Shadows danced and morphed on the grey brick walls, a variety of mosses, mold, and mildew growing in between some of the bricks, dank water leaking and dripping, following the patterns of the brickwork from the top of the wall,...
"South of the equator Halloween falls in spring"
The wedding invitation, blood-red script on black, didn’t surprise. However, the time and place did pique my curiosity. Aza and Harri’s wedding was precisely timed, six minutes past eleven on Halloween in the Terminus Chapel at Rookwood cemetery.Now Rookwood wasn’t...
"Man sets up a cosy Hallowe'en evening - he thinks!"
“Do you remember love?”Craig Neilsen pulled a face as he reached the ground floor. That was the second time those words had drifted through his mind. From the office frontage, he could see the taxi waiting. His car was in...
"A mad scientists' tragic attempt to defy the laws of Nature"
Olga was cleaning up in the lab when a harrowing howl echoed along the drafty chambers of the ancient manor from the direction of the mistresses’ bedchamber. “Oh no,” she thought, “the time has finally come.” She rushed there.Sitting bedside...
"W investigates a series of small town Halloween kidnappings."
I’ve handled some long term cases before, but this one was the granddaddy of them all. Frank Reynolds handed most of his open cases down to me when he retired, but he kept this one back. He had been working...
"Shy virgin receives a dire prediction from a fortune teller at the Halloween Festival."
Kara walked at her friend’s side through the Halloween Festival grounds, feeling as if the world was closing in on her. Never comfortable in any social situation, the vast number of people patronizing the fair made her feel anxious –...
