The Dream Keeper

Technically ,you’re dying every day. But unlike Mary Smith, you don’t usually realize it the second you open your eyes. Mary saw the harsh, grey stain on her pillow and it (understandably) set off alarm bells in her brain. ‘Discolored stains, especially near the face, are not often good,’ she thought, and rushed to the bathroom. She saw herself in the mirror and saw the black substance was coming from her mouth. Only a dribble, though apparently constant enough to stain her pillow fairly badly. So stunned was she that she didn’t realize her mother was pounding on the door until she burse and wielding a frying pan, ready to bash Mary’s head in. “Mary, what in God’s name is wrong with you? You KNOW I have to be at work by eight thirty, and here you are, hogging the bathroom like a spoiled brat! What have you got to say?” Mary waited for the sudden understanding, that thousand-yard-stare at the sight of her own daughter drooling black, oily poison and clearly close to death. ...

Presents beat Candy but this Holiday STILL needs more bloodthirsty monsters.

The Cryptid Menagerie actually happened. Well, except without Cryptids. Shame, that would've made one Hell of a News Story . . . . . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050778/Ohio-animals-killed-Lions-tigers-shot-dead-escaping-US-zoo.html

The Guards, searching the premises, wondered what was upsetting the animals so much. They’d never before been this vocal; forget about loud enough to be heard outside the buildings. The first group to figure out what was happening, sadly, wasn’t the one that had any of Shuker’s lethal weaponry. It was a trio of guards, all with tranquilizer guns, who came across the tribe of Sasquatches, marching down a trail out of the woods. One of the guards, stupid enough to assume he could successfully hit a moving target’s head in barely any early-morning light, fired and hit a tree. Alerted, the alpha male – a towering, gargantuan monster of dark, black color and very poor disposition, lunged for them. One of the guards was seized, his arm still connected but the bone wrenched from the socket. He was lifted up and hurled into a nearby tree, where his vertebrae shattered and one of his shoulders dislodged. When he fell eight feet to the ground, both of the female Wood Apes de...