"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 –...
"Harold decided it was time she repaid him for the years he had given her."
She was old or more to the fact of age, she was ancient in terms of human life. She had walked the earth for centuries searching for the men she craved to survive on. Men of wealth and means, men...
"An American woman goes to Ireland in search of the mythical werewolf"
The moon was full. The moors were empty. Inside the 'Rick and the Baker' pub, villagers milled about nervously, listening to the feral howls that sliced through the fog like razor-sharp talons. Even the most macho Irishman seemed jittery, even...
"Two letters from the private archive of Abraham van Helsing"
First Letter, dated 12 February 18-- From Emily M-------d To Lady Cassandra B---------n My dearest Cassandra, I fear it is over a week since I last put pen to paper, and indeed I cannot tell when you will receive this...
"Dabbling with magic on Halloween night can lead to trouble."
It was supposed to be a frickin’ joke! It was just a bunch of Halloween mumbo-jumbo to get the girls to take their clothes off. I didn’t really mean it. I wasn’t trying to summon anyone... or anything. I was...
Halloween is upon us. Vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and goblins are on everyone's mind. It is fun to get jump-scared by these mythical creatures - knowing no harm will really befall you. But, there are some real horrors in our world....
