Dare you sleep
while at your door
the timekeeper
the great, dark reaper
raps
rapaciously
Do you imagine he softly knocks?
oh no!
for he demands you awaken
for his long dreaded coming
It is a conscious thing
and yet you slumber
ignoring his nearness
secure, you believe
in the arms of dreams
Ah, the arms of dreams
how inviting
how simplistic, the answers there
Until dawn’s red steely eye
irrepressibly creeps out of shadow dreams
to inch up those venetian blinds you have pulled
so tightly
so quickly
so long ago
And so in vain
Grab those side-irons, saddle up and join former Civil War sharpshooter Luther Henry for a ride into pure terror, western-style…think ‘Wild Wild West’ meets ‘The X-Files’.
Happy Halloween. A volume of Horrible Haunts & Twisted Tales taken from the horror books La Belle Rouge has written every October for a decade and a half. If you have read her works in the horror genre, you know the invitation is for you to enjoy thr
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