Is that her heart I hear? Filling my room full of night, Filling my room with the light of a colder moon? Maddening in its melody, Its haunted wail of loneliness and despair In search of warmth and hunger for my flesh, Yearning for the fury of an embrace. Failing, it flees on a rush read more
W. J. Howard lives near Denver and writes horror, fantasy and sci-fi with a bit of comedy mixed in at times. Her award winning novel series, The Courier is scheduled for release by Vamplit Publishing in quarterly episodes any day now. 
R.J. Robyn is an aspiring fantasy and mystery novelist. He spent some time in the theater as a young man, and has a minor in Creative Writing and Arthurian Literature. He's been writing since he was 10, but has spent most of his life programming computers.Timothy C. Hobbs is a consummate horror writer and his stories are both horrific and beautifully crafted. The Pumkin Seed published by Vamplit Publishing in 2009 was Timothy Hobbs first published novel. He is now working with his editor at Vamplit Publishing on a collection of stories based on popular fairytales.
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By Timothy C. Hobbs, in Music Box Sonata, at the top of a steep cliff a derelict church serves its congregation of dust, cobwebs and birds roosting in the rafters. One human occupant lives there hidden in the cellar. He is cursed never walk in the tortuous sunlight, but to roam the woods on the cliff at night in the form of a hideous beast struggling with the violent desire to kill while striving to preserve remnants of his own humanity.By Timothy C. Hobbs, in The Smell of Ginger it's Halloween in Jasper, Texas and Butch and Suzy are driving with their dad to trick or treat at the strip mall and the local churches. They didn't count on the truck breaking down, getting lost in the woods, or coming across the ordinary old cabin, but there's nothing ordinary about the tenents - two spinster sisters who have been waiting eternally for children to call their own.
By Timothy C. Hobbs, in The Pumpkin Seed, “I am a drinker of human blood and an eater of human flesh, a monster dressed in the skin of a man.” So states Charles, the main character of the novel, after being infected with a virus transmitted by an insect vector. The horror is set loose on the world by a man driven mad by injustice and oppression. In a novel spanning three hundred years the vampire is both killer and victim of humanity.
COMING SOON Grand Scares are chilling flash fiction tales by W. J. Howard, released bi-annually in an eBook collection. The short stories in volume one are a mix of stories first published as a part of the weekly Vamplit #FridayFlash prompts along with previously unreleased tales. You're sure to enjoy these tales of haunted places, grotesque love, Death, horrific visions and the undead in this first collection.
