CHAPTER XIX BATTLING IN THE ARENA Slowly I regained my composure and finally essayed again to attempt to remove the keys from the dead body of my former jailer. But as I reached out into the darkness to locate it I found to my horror that it was gone. Then… Continue Reading
CHAPTER XVIII CHAINED IN WARHOON It must have been several hours before I regained consciousness and I well remember the feeling of surprise which swept over me as I realized that I was not dead. I was lying among a pile of sleeping silks and furs in the corner of… Continue Reading
1 BEAR in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end. To say that a mental shock was the cause of what I inferred—that last straw which sent me racing out of the lonely Akeley farmhouse and through the wild domed hills of Vermont… Continue Reading
1 A swift crashing of horses through the tall reeds; a heavy fall, a despairing cry. From the dying steed there staggered up its rider, a slender girl in sandals and girdled tunic. Her dark hair fell over her white shoulders, her eyes were those of a trapped animal. She… Continue Reading
What could be better than hunting Sasquatch on Christmas Eve. Roy could think of few things. The year had been his treasure for the taking. Maybe it was because the earth’s axis had shifted and something inside Roy had shifted too. He was invincible. First the knocking on trees and… Continue Reading
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “‘Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at… Continue Reading
Chapter IV: The Attack From the Air The shadows were black around him, The dripping jaws gaped wide, Thicker than rain the red drops fell; But my love was fiercer than Death’s black spell, Nor all the iron walls of hell Could keep me from his side. – The Song… Continue Reading
The power went out. Sandy could handle a small power outage, but not tonight. Ever since the “Shifting” had been happening she had been seeing things, horrific things, that she never would have even dreamed in her wildest nightmares. The one small consolation is that since the Shifting, she isn’t… Continue Reading
Richard knew the zipper in his flesh couldn’t have been there long. It ran down the middle of his chest, from just beneath his collar bone down to just above his navel. He couldn’t figure out what it meant. He lay on his back on what seemed to be the… Continue Reading
Divorce. Lockdown. Loneliness. As long as he had lived alone, David had no real friends. Except that now, a largish spider was inhabiting his shower. It hung out in an upper corner, above and to the right of the shower head. At first, he was leery of it. Margaret, when… Continue Reading
