They sought death since childhood. Why?
"Her voice came to me from afar, ‘Please come. We need you to help us..."
It was a
voice from the past, a distant memory of a childhood friend and her brother,
drawing me forth from my own peculiar world. For
peculiar it is—as you shall see.
As I
journeyed forth I worried that I would arrive too late, unable to ease their
suffering and fear.
These were
troubling thoughts and so I drove my steed onward, faster and faster.
“Please,”
I shouted, “there is no time to waste not a moment!”
And there
wasn’t as daylight was fading fast.
I kept
measuring the darkness for it was increasing by the moment and as it did my
horse began to slow, still I drove it on. Then at
last I saw a turret rising above the bleak woods.
“We are
nearly there!” I cried. We were
for we were already in sight of the house and so near to the sad occupants
within.
Heathstone
House was now coming fully into sight--Heathstone with the last two of its
accursed line, the brother and sister Jeremiah and Christine, former playmates
of mine. Well perhaps that is not the right term, for I was not really a child
but only childlike.
None of us
can help what we are, and I could not, though I wished I could.
Still it
was enough for me to play with them and visit them undetected.
They
called me their secret playmate and I was, comforting them as much as I could
for no one else did.
It was the
children’s desire to die which brought me to that lonely nursery all those
years ago.
(end of excerpt)
In this horror collection you'll find stories of vampires, zombies, murderous midgets, demon clowns, evil dolls, haunted cemeteries, a real shop of horrors, taxidermy gone haywire, serial killers and more!
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