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www.PeterAndTheVampires.com
- by Darren Pillsbury
PETER AND THE VAMPIRES is a horror/comedy web novel (and a free podcast!)about a normal, 10-year-old kid who moves into a sinister town filled with supernatural horribleness. The series is composed of different "monster of the week" stories - kind of like THE X-FILES crossed with THE SIMPSONS (if Mr. Burns were a ghoul and something terrifying lived in the town dump). "Peter And The Dead Men" is the first story in the collection. A new page is posted every day.
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5 comments:
Eep! Guess they aren't looking for a shrink after all. D:
I consider Peter very lucky. When I was doing field work were were staying in a hotel on the way back and the light in the bathroom ran on a timer only. My roommate had turned it on and I just assumed it was a regular light switch. Well surprise when the light went off five minutes into my shower and I couldn't find the switch anywhere! I had to open the door to use the light to find the switch. Lucky for me I wasn't rooming with a dead man...
v-word: barpedo - The newest of naval weaponry designed to incapacitate enemy submarines using volatile beverages.
That's not nice. Drunk driver is turning out to be worse and worse roommate by the minute.
WHOA! Super scary. :( I'm not going to sleep well tonight.
I don't like zombies.
I hope that bathroom has a window.
Argh! I'm so glad I'm not reading this alone at night!
Also slight typo: "The door knob rattled and shook as soon unseen hand" - should that "soon" be a "some"?
WV: mettrags. Special cleaning equipment used to eliminate the leavings of the walking dead - you know, those pesky trails of slime, putrid blood and so on that they so inconveniently ooze everywhere.
Rai -
That sounds like a good scene for a future story taking place in a hotel room...
Todd -
He truly is.
Jennifer -
Ooooh, glad you liked it! Hoped you slept okay...
Cat -
Thanks for the typo!
Thankfully our dead roommate guy is fresh enough he isn't leaving any mettrags yet.
Anonymous from a previous day -
Yeah, usually they don't wash bodies off unless they do an autopsy or prepare them for burial (at least as far as I can tell from CSI and the LAW AND ORDER shows). But then I was presented with the extra-horrific part of this guy having lots of caked-on blood everywhere. (The red-splattered shirt was my concession in that area.)
I figured it was bad enough having his face bashed in. I considered just leaving it at that - face bashed in, no blood (after all, on CSI, they say that the first blow to the head from blunt force trauma doesn't draw blood: "The first one's free"). But that seemed super unrealistic with that much damage to his skull.
I toyed with just having him be dead with no visual indications except clouded corneas or something. But then he could have just been drunk guy, not dead drunk driving guy. And not nearly as scary.
So his face is bashed in, and either melting snow at the scene washed the blood off, or a soft-hearted attendant tidied him up for whomever had to ID the body. After all, it's pretty apparent what killed the dude, so I doubt an autopsy would have been ordered.
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