HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION Day 4: ‘The Song of the Bats’ & ‘The Fear That Follows’ by Robert E. Howard
Bats flying! Flying!
In eternal night
From the river to the cave to wheel in the twilight.
–Jeffrey LeBlanc (Song of the Vampire Bats)
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HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION Day 02: Lovecraft Halloween Poems
A chill wind weaves thro’ the rows of sheaves
In the meadows that shimmer pale,
And comes to twine where the headstones shine
And the ghouls of the churchyard wail
For harvests that fly and fail.
–H.P. Lovecraft (Halloween in a Suburb)
Psychic Brain Eating Vampires: ‘The Thought Monster’ by Amelia Reynolds Long
‘There were no marks of violence on the body; only that expression of horrific revulsion at unspeakable things.’ –(Amelia Reynolds Long)
VAMPIRE PIRATE HORROR: Stragella by Hugh B. Cave
#vampire #Ghost #youtube #books #horrorstories #youtube #horrorstory #booktube #horrorshorts #horrorstories #pirates #flowers ‘She was wild, almost savage, with her great dark eyes boring into him. Her skin was white, smooth as alabaster. Her hair was jet black; and a waving coil of it, like a broken cobweb of pitch strings, framed her face. Grotesque hoops […]
VAMPIRE PIRATE HORROR: The Devil of Black Bayou CHAPTER THREE by Jeffrey LeBlanc
#vampires #pirates #horrorstories #shorts #books #youtube #horrorshorts #horrorstories #thedevilofblackbayou #NewOrleans #neworleans #swamphorror #jeffreyleblanc #horrorstory #vampirehorror #books ‘It’s a nightmarish image Antoine that awakens me with the coldest of chills. I don’t know why I’m having this recurring nightmare, my love, when such a thing should never occur. But at any rate I have this persistent […]
Horrifying Bat Tale: “Wings of the Night” (Jeffrey LeBlanc)
“The mountains towered to the ghostly moon
Celestial stars shimmered brilliantly in the sky
As the bats tittered, and twisted, twisted
Across the mountains and the forest upon high
Winding and weaving through the vastness of night
They sang a devilish tale flying by.”
—Jeffrey LeBlanc (Wings of the Night)
Haunting Sleep Terror: Jack Snow’s “Night Wings”
The earth lay far below him. He flew gracefully on through the silvery darkness.”
— Jack Snow (Night Wings)
Best Halloween Horror–Episode 8: Lord Byron’s “The Vampyre”
“Unquenched, unquenchable,
Around, within, thy heart shall dwell;
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell
The tortures of that inward hell!
But first, on earth as vampire sent,
Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent:–Lord Byron (The Vampyre)
Cthulhu Mythos Vampire Horror: Stephen King’s “Jerusalem’s Lot”
“And the Latin was replaced by an older tongue, ancient when Egypt was young and the Pyramids built, ancient when this Earth still hung in an unformed, boiling firmament of empty gas: “Gyyagin vardar Yogsoggoth! Verminis! Gyyagin! Gyyagin! Gyyagin!”–Stephen King (Jerusalem’s Lot)
Horrific Pirate Vampire Tale: Jeffrey LeBlanc’s “The Devil of Black Bayou Special Edition” Chapter 2
“I’m starting my journey across the waves of time! The blood is my time machine and my portal to the dimensions beyond. I see my loving, raven-haired wife. She is bathed in the foam of sea spray and blood. Lightning flashes around us in arcs of blistering white. Lightning etches around us in emerald green, A final blast paints us in a shade of deep blue. In the moments, between light and darkness, giant pinchers have grasped Marie’s flesh pulling her below! A glowing mauve pool of slime remains. A single hand floats above the sea and then submerges into depths below.
I float back to the present lashing out at the night air. I wrestle with imaginary phantoms who lurk back into that accursed moment in time when my wife was lost to me. I curse and send a glass breaking roar as I fight the ghost of an oozing leviathan who dissipates into mist.”
–Jeffrey LeBlanc (The Devil of Black Bayou Special Edition)
Horrific Pirate Vampire Series: Jeffrey LeBlanc’s “The Devil of Black Bayou–Special Edition”
“I hear her screams. I am in darkness.
I hear her shrieks. I am unable to act.
I hear her pleas then silence. I sob in the lightning and darkness.”–Jeffrey LeBlanc (The Devil of Black Bayou)
Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Collection (Fiery New Novel Coming Soon!!!)
“And, on that first winter breaker, of Grand Isle’s coldest winter…Pierre Santiny plunged into the sea and was seen no more. But none on the island will ever say he died!”–Jeffrey LeBlanc (The Mariner of Caminada Pass)
Powerful Pan Vampire Tale: Clark Ashton Smith’s “The End of the Story” (Narrator Jeffrey LeBlanc)
“Farewell for awhile, Christophe. But have no fear. You shall find me again if you are brave and patient.”–Clark Ashton Smith (The End of the Story)
“The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault”: Special Edition (Narrated By Jeffrey LeBlanc)
I stand chilled and alone in a desolate cane field next to a dead man. His neck is twisted and bent
at an unnatural angle. The yellowed waxen skin—rifled with wounds, of his throat and torso are
exposed. As I look on with a gust of a cold wind at my back, I notice chunks of flesh have been
torn from both. Maculations of crimson on leaves and the splatter of frozen blood surround his
body. But it’s the eyes of the man I’ll remember to my last days. Wide, fixed in shock, they hide
some terrifying secret only the mutilated corpse may know.–Jeffrey LeBlanc (The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault)
Anne Rice Tribute: “Cry of the Werewolf” & “The Master of Rampling Gate”
And each and every thing was transfigured in his vision, and in my vision—the vision he gave now to me—to the exquisite essence of itself. A wordless and eternal voice spoke from the starry veil of heaven, it sang in the wind that rushed through the broken timbers; it sighed in the flames that ate the sooted stones of the hearth.–Anne Rice (The Master of Rampling Gate)
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