"A Victorian scientist demonstrates his discovery of a tunnel through other dimensions."
"Wake up!" Devon was gently shaking the pale figure lying on the ground next to me as I was roused from sleep at the sound of his raised voice. He was tugging Partita's arm from beneath her curled-up body and...
""It's getting stronger...""
It was an unseasonably cold night in October and Amber Shelton had had a bad feeling.She would have them from time to time, the bad feelings. When she was a little girl she would call them her feels. They were...
"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...
"Love born under a full moon."
“I got it!” George shouted through the tiny flat to his new bride, Nina.In January 1982 the University of Hawai’i signed off a plan to support the continued development of scientific facilities at the site. They wanted someone neutral to...
"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...
