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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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- "Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 82
- "Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 80 and 81
- "Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 77 thru 79
- "Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 73 thru 76
- Dead Men Prologue
- "Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 70 thru 72
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8 comments:
You called Peter eter around the second para. Also, it was a little jarring when you used the person: "As soon as everyone stopped talking, you could hear it immediately: skrrrrssh, skrrrrssh, skrrrrssh." They instead of you, for consistency.
Also, I know I said it was a trap, but seeing it in action is something else again. Still, the boogeymen can't kill Scott without dying themselves, so I bet Scott gets used a lot in the next chapter. He's either gonna throw himself in front of an attack, or sacrifice himself.
I wonder how that works - its being a trap, I mean. Obviously the board hasn't been enchanted to kill them straight off, or else our heroes names would have been first on the list. It could have some kind of proximity sensor, to quickly activate when they were close to the board, but what's the point?
I think the board somehow detected a threat in the boys, and went into overdrive to protect itself. So it's a trap in the sense that Fallon could have expected this to happen given the boys' heroism, I guess...
Untimi = Late AND dyslexic.
I'm trying to remember if these stories have been creepier before. Nothing yet.
Um, it was Peter, but by the end of the page, the 'p' had been used by Dill...
@ Seaspray: haha, it was the big pee this time, too. Makes sense.
@Rubberduck: Unless they have some sort of long-range protection we don't know of, I guess you're right. I just thought it was a trap because Scott's crush's name appeared right before.
I suspect that they'll wash the blood off the ouija board. Any opinions
@Darren - no/maybe/kinda/ a list with the characters names on it... i'm lazy with a bad memory...
shoot the board shoot the board shoot the board shoot the board !!!
Um the Muse -
Thanks for the typo/grammar spots!
Sacrifice himself?! Hmmmm...
Rubberduck -
I think Fallon's devious plots(this one and the Gingerbread men) are...well, I was going to say Rube Goldbergian, but that's not right. More like indiscriminate and brutal. Kind of like nuking an entire city to kill one guy.
Todd -
Really? Creepier than the children's souls in the freak show mirror? Cool. WINNING!
Seaspray -
It took me about 30 seconds to get that - in fact, I went searching for a rogue letter in the blog post, I'll admit. But when I finally got it, I laughed out loud. Awesome.
Um the Muse -
Haha! Good follow up.
Yes, I can confirm, it definitely WAS a trap set by Fallon. Jennifer's name...well, I think the board kills specifically (Mike), randomly (Marsha), and occasionally through connections to the person who summoned the Inaratu. The board may help its user out in some instances, but the karmic payback is horrific - and fairly immediate.
AnakMoon -
Haha! Okay, that makes the most sense.
Let's see...
Scott - 7th-grader with the Ouija board, approaches Peter for help
Jennifer - girl he has a crush on
Jax - "what a guy," coolest guy at school, Jen is (now) his girlfriend
Fallon - proprietor of Hidden Books bookshop, seller of Ouija board (and, in another story, the Gingerbread Men cookbook), Grandfather's stepbrother, evil dude
Mike Turnerpike - Scott's school bully, the board's first victim, older brother to Tad Turnerpike (bully at Peter's school)
Marsha - random victim
Inaratu - the shadow men that the Ouija board summons
Dr. Zimmerman - Scott's therapist, only mentioned a couple of times
Dr. Sheldon Prescott - Peter and Dill's court-appointed psychiatrist
Scott's parents - Craig and Andrea
Anybody else is just a random victim or bit player.
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