tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12885225590759613812024-02-22T04:14:35.432-08:00Hopedale Press: For All Your Nancy A. Collins Reading NeedsNancy A. Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330096678180150576noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288522559075961381.post-48591637456515857702012-12-16T20:32:00.000-08:002012-12-16T20:32:22.782-08:00KILL CITY: Chapter Three<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">It
took me two days to drive back to L.A. from the Seattle area. It would
have been quicker if I’d flown, of course.
But traveling by air is not ideal for someone like me. I don’t like being
around large numbers of people in the first place, and ever since the World
Trade Center it’s been increasingly difficult for me to smuggle my switchblade
past security. Plus the airlines keep cutting back on the leg room—I honestly
don’t know how the average human can stand to fly coach anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I’d
rather take a bullet to the chest or a knife to the lung than spend hours
sandwiched, cheek-to-cheek, between a computer analyst and an insurance
adjuster. Besides, it’s not like I punch
a time clock for Vampires-B-Gone. If I want to take a nice, leisurely drive
down the Pacific Coast Highway, that’s nobody’s business but my own. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
pulled the metal garage door shut against the coming dawn, pausing only long enough
to glance at the graffiti mural covering the wall across the alleyway. I
inherited Indigo Imports from my friend and mentor, Erich Ghilardi, over thirty
years ago. I relocated the home office to West Hollywood in 2004, just around the
corner from Pink’s. Save for the blacked-out front windows and a sign that
reads: “By Appointment Only”, it doesn't look that different from similar boutiques along Melrose. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">I
wound my way through the maze of antiques, shrouded under their drop cloths.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16.363636016845703px; line-height: 32.727272033691406px;">The ground floor was taken up by the bulkier pieces, while the second floor served double duty as my living space and storage for the more valuable items that have found their way into my possession. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> As I stooped to pick up the bills and circulars piled below the mail-slot set into the triple-locked front door, I spotted an envelope with a red wax seal that bore the initial
‘H’ embossed into its center. You can always tell those accustomed to wealth
and power simply by the quality of their stationery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
cracked open the seal and removed a single piece of tri-folded paper.
Attached to one corner by a paperclip was a color photograph of an ornamental
dagger. I frowned and looked at the letter, which was written in a masculine,
yet tremulous hand, suggesting that the correspondent was either elderly or
infirm, if not both. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Dear Ms. Blue: Please forgive me contacting
you in such a manner, but I have it on good authority from a close mutual acquaintance
that you are a dealer in certain macabre items. I have in my possession one
such piece—the so-called Bluebeard Knife, used by the notorious Gilles de Rais. Should you be interested in this item, you can reach me via the phone
number written on the reverse of the enclosed photograph. I await your call. Sincerely,
Senator Miles Holden<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
studied the photo as I climbed the stairs to the second floor. If the dagger
belonging to Holden was a fake, someone had gone to a lot of trouble to
replicate an item only a handful of antiquaries had heard of, and even fewer would be interested in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">You see, Indigo Imports does not merely
serve as a front to cover for my vampire hunting around the globe, but also
provides me with the raw materials I need
in order to conduct business deals with
certain… consultants. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The Bard did not lie when he wrote ‘the evil that men do lives after
them’. All of the things that find their way to me possess a malign physic
residue--evil, if you will. It’s like catnip to demons—they can’t get enough of it. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16.363636016845703px; line-height: 32.727272033691406px;">For example, there’s this one demon down in New Orleans, who is an information broker.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16.363636016845703px; line-height: 32.727272033691406px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">I use the
pieces I find to barter with the bastard for his services. Normally he requires a human soul in
exchange for his help, but, like most </span>infernals<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> manifested on the material
plane, he has a serious </span>jones<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> for evil—the more depraved the better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">That’s
why I’m always in the market for personal items associated with notorious
serial killers, mass-murderers, and other such wastes of skin. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">I’m not talking bad clown paintings by John
Wayne </span>Gacy<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">, cranked out from behind prison bars for morbid hipsters, but the
real deal—things like Jack the Ripper’s valise, Countess Bathory’s bathtub, and
Mengele’s scalpel. Hell, I’ve even got the guillotine that stood in the Place
</span>de<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> la Revolution during the Reign of Terror sitting on the shop floor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Bluebeard
Knife would, indeed, be a major score, but only if it proved to be the real
thing. And the only way to know for sure if something is genuinely evil or not is
if I handle it. Authenticating items is never a pleasant task, but there is no
getting around it in my line of work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
flipped the photo over and punched the number into one of the burner phones
I keep for such occasions. Despite the earliness of the hour, it only rang a couple times before someone picked up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Hello, Ms. Blue.” The gravelly voice on the
other end was that of an elderly man. “I’ve been awaiting your call.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
assume I am speaking to Senator Holden then?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Indeed
you are.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Please forgive my calling so early in the morning, but I’ve been away on business,” I
explained. “I’ve only just returned to the city, and I called as soon as I read
your letter. Do you still have the knife?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“At
my age, sleep is more accident than activity,” Holden replied with a dry
chuckle. “And, yes, I still have it. I take it you are interested?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes, I am. But I must personally verify its authenticity before I can make
an offer.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Of course,” he agreed. “However, I do not keep the knife at my home. I will
have my assistant retrieve it from my safety deposit box once my bank opens. I
can have it available for inspection early this evening—How does seven o’clock
sound?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Perfect.”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Very good. I
live in Calabasas. The address is 24520 Rancho Peligro Drive. Just give your
name at the gate.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“May
I ask exactly who it was that told you about me, Senator?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“That
will have to wait until we meet face-to-face, Ms. Blue,” the Senator replied. “Goodbye
until then.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">***<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Come sundown, I was back in my car, headed toward the 101
and the Santa Monica Mountains. Located in the hills of the southwestern San
Fernando Valley, Calabasas is one of several enclaves of super-wealth that ring
the outskirts of the city. It is a place of lush, rolling hills overlooking scenic
canyons, perfect for multi-million dollar faux-Tuscan villas and sprawling
horse-ranches. I heaved a sigh of relief as I spotted my exit. Even with
superhuman reflexes, driving on the Ventura Freeway within two hours of either
side of rush hour is nerve-wracking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Holden’s
estate was located high in the foothills, on a tight road with hairpin curves, far
removed from the television producers and Hollywood celebrities who call the
suburb their home. As I piloted my way
up the twisting road, I suddenly found an all-too-familiar voice murmuring in
my ear: <i>How do you know it’s not a trap? </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
checked out Holden,” I replied to the empty air. “He’s legit. He was a California
state senator for over twenty years until he fell off a horse. Since then he’s been
paralyzed from the waist down. He’s known for collecting fine antiques, so it
makes sense he might come into possession of something like the Bluebeard
Knife.” <i> </i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Who put him onto you in the first
place?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “I’m rather curious about that, myself,” I admitted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> <i>What does he want?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “He wants to sell me an antique dagger.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> <i>No, what does he <b>really </b>want? There has to be another
reason for him luring you out here. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You’re
paranoid, you know that?” I sighed. “You <i>always</i>
suspect <i>everyone</i> of hidden agendas.
You have a really low opinion of humanity, you know that?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> <i>Because I’m <b>not</b> one of them, </i>The Other replied.<i> And
neither are you. You would do well to remember that.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Shut up and leave me alone,” I growled, digging my
fingernails into the flesh of my upper thigh. My invisible passenger fell
silent, but I could still feel it in the back of my head, watching me like a
cat standing guard outside a mouse hole. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> A couple minutes later the car came to halt in front of a
high stone wall and a pair of imposing metal gates. A man dressed like a farm hand with an Uzi
slung over his shoulder, emerged from a small hut on the other side. I stuck my head out of the driver’s side
window and saw the guard frown as he realized I was wearing mirrored sunglasses
after dark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “My name is Sonja Blue,” I said. “The Senator is
expecting me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> The guard nodded and stepped back inside the building. There
was a buzzing noise as the gates swung open, allowing me to continue my
journey. A mile later, after passing several paddocks and a sizable stable, I
finally reached the main house. It was a Spanish Colonial Revival-style mansion
that gleamed white as a tomb in the glow from the security lights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> A tall, muscular man in his early thirties
stood waiting for me in the front court yard. He was dressed in a nicely
tailored suit that did its best to try and hide the bulge from his
shoulder-holster. As I got out of the car, I caught a tiny flicker of concern
as he took in my leather biker’s jacket, steel-toed boots and sunglasses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Good evening, Ms. Blue,” the bodyguard said with a practiced
smile. “My name is Vickers. I am the Senator’s personal assistant. He sent me
to formally welcome you to Rancho Peligro, as he is unable to do so himself.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “How considerate,” I grunted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “The Senator does not get many visitors nowadays,”
Vickers explained, gesturing for me to follow him into the mansion. “He is most
eager to meet with you.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> The foyer of the house was vast, with decorated tile
flooring and a huge wrought-iron chandelier hanging suspended from the exposed
ceiling timbers like a medieval piñata.
Just beyond the entry were twin stairways, each with elaborately
scrolled metal balustrades, which branched off to separate wings of the mansion.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Looking
down from the left-hand landing was a blonde woman in a designer cocktail
dress, holding a martini glass in one finely manicured hand. It was hard to
tell her exact age, as her face possessed the waxy, wrinkle-free sheen of the
perpetually Botoxed, but she appeared to be in her early forties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Is that the Blue woman?” she asked in an
over-loud, slightly slurred voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Yes it is, Mrs. Holden,” Vickers replied, speaking in a
tone usually reserved for small children and pets. “I’m taking her to see the
Senator.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “About time she showed up,” the blonde said as she
drained what remained of her drink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Is that the Senator’s wife?” I asked as Vickers led me
through an archway off the main foyer that opened onto a loggia decorated with
Renaissance bronze and marble statues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “The Senator is a widower,” the assistant explained
matter-of-factly. “The woman you saw is his daughter-in-law, Estelle.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Upon reaching the end of the gallery, Vickers opened an oaken
door with hand-forged fittings with a key that looked like it belonged to a
pirate’s treasure chest. I stepped into a large rotunda-like room, the walls of
which were hung with original El Greco and Velázquez canvasses. At its center was a mahogany desk big enough
to play ping pong on, behind which was Miles Holden, seated in what could best he described as a motorized executive’s chair. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Good
evening, Ms. Blue,” the Senator smiled. From the shoulders up he looked no
different than he had in his campaign posters, save that his salt-and-pepper
hair had finally turned silver. From the
waist down, however, his body was as gnarled as a cypress stump. He reminded me of a living, breathing Pez dispenser. “I trust Vickers has officially welcomed you
to my humble abode?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“That
he has,” I replied. “Nice place for horses you’ve got here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
it was,” he agreed, a hint of sadness in his voice. “I had them all put down after the accident. I
didn’t see any point in having them if I couldn’t ride them.” He motioned to
one of the club chairs opposite him. “Please have a seat, Ms. Blue.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Senator
Holden—you mentioned that we shared a mutual acquaintance in your letter. Who
exactly was it who recommended me to you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“All
in good time, Ms. Blue,” he assured me. “But first allow me to show you the
knife.” He nodded to Vickers, who opened one of the desk drawers and removed a
black leather clam shell case. The bodyguard walked over to where I was seated
and flipped open the box, holding it so I could examine its contents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
dagger lay on a bed of black velvet like a piece of fine jewelry. From its blue
lapis lazuli pommel to its sterling silver knife point, it measured eight inches
in length, and had an eighteen-carat white gold hilt studded with diamonds and
sapphires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Beautiful,
isn’t it?” Holden said. “Hard to believe something so lovely was used to slit
the throats of over a hundred young boys while observing black Sabbath rituals.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“It
is stunning,” I agreed. “Of course, I need to handle it in order to verify
whether or not it is the genuine article.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Be
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
took a deep breath, steeling myself against what might come next, and carefully
lifted the jeweled dagger from its velvet-lined resting place. As my fingers
wrapped about the handle, I experienced a slight electric shock, as if I had
brushed against an ungrounded wire, followed by the sound of a small child
wailing in fear and pain. Within the space of a heartbeat the single voice doubled,
tripled, quadrupled—until it was a children’s choir of terrified screams. I quickly
let the knife drop back into the case. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “It is authentic,” I said, wiping my hands against my
leather jacket. “I have no doubt that this was used by Giles de
Rais. How much do you want?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “I’m not looking to sell it,” the Senator replied. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “If that’s the case, why did you bother contacting me in
the first place?” I snapped. “Did you simply drag me out here just to
authenticate it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Hold on—there’s no need to become angry. Let me
explains. While I’m not interested in <i>selling </i>the Bluebeard Knife, I <i>am </i>willing to make a trade…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Your services as a vampire hunter.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> The pit of my stomach dropped away, and for a single,
paralyzing second I felt as vulnerable and exposed as I had that night in
London, decades ago, when I found myself trapped in the backseat of a car with a
lord of the undead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “I’m sorry, Senator,” I said, quickly regaining my
composure. “Everyone knows there are no such things as vampires!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Just
like everyone used to know the world was flat and the moon made of green
cheese, eh?” the statesman said with a humorless laugh. “I didn’t believe
in them, either, until a week ago—when one of the bastards stole my
granddaughter. But now I <i>know</i> they’re real—just like I <i>know </i>you’re the only one
who can get her back.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“If
this is a joke, it is in <i>very</i> poor
taste,” I said, getting to my feet. “I may not be as rich and famous as other
people you’re accustomed to dealing with, Senator, but my time is valuable to <i>me</i>, and I don’t appreciate having it
wasted in such a manner!” With that, I turned my back on Holden and headed for
the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “You wanted to know who it was that told me about you?”
he called out after me. “Very well, I’ll tell you his name: Jacob
Thorne.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> I froze in my tracks and then slowly turned back to stare at
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “How do you know my father?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tis The Season To Be Jolly! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So why would anyone want to celebrate it by reading tales of super/natural terror? <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tradition</span></i></b>, that's why! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">While most of you are no doubt familiar with the mythic figure known as St. Nicholas/ Santa Claus/Father Christmas/Papa Noel/Sinterklaas, who flies about the world to bring presents to good little girls and boys, many in the United States are unaware of the Jolly Old Elf's darker half, a demonic creature called the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Krampus</span></b><span style="color: #990000;">,</span> who travels alongside St. Nicholas, searching for naughty children to stuff in its sack and carry away to its lair, to be fattened up and devoured for Christmas dinner. How's that for good ol' fashioned nightmare fuel, as well as a sure-fire means of making sure the kids stay in their beds while you're putting together the damned bicycle?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yep, yuletide and ghostly stories of the weird, strange and downright horrifying go together like </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">How The Grinch Stole Christmas </span></i></b><span style="font-size: large;">and</span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>A Christmas Carol</i>. </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">And the good people at Hopedale Press (meaning me) have decided to continue the time-honored tradition of creeping people out for the holidays by giving readers one ebook for free and discounting three others by 50%. The Krampus couldn't beat that deal with a bundle of switches!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, you did. For a limited time during November and December, <b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">THE ICE WEDDING</span> </i></b>is offered free on <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Kindle</span>.</b> (Sorry, epub readers, but until iTunes and Nook start making it easier to do similar promotions, you'll have to be on the outside looking in.) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Happy Holidays From Hopedale Press Special</span></b> starts 3am EST on <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">November 26th</span> </b> and runs to 3am EST <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">November 29th, 2012</span>. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If you miss that freebie window, you get a second crack at it during <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Hopedale Press Krampus Special</span>,</b> which runs from 3am <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">December 23rd </span></b>to 3am <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">December 25th, 2012</span>. </b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">To celebrate the Season of Giving, I have decided to slash prices on three of my $4.99 ebooks by 50%: <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>Hell Come Sundown,</i></b> <b><i>Lynch: A Gothik Western,</i></b></span> and <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Walking Wolf.</span></i></b> The sale will run from <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">November 26th until December 31st, 2012</span></b> and will be available via <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Kindle, iTunes, Kobo, Nook, Sony</span> </b>and<b> <span style="color: #cc0000;">Smashwords.</span> </b> </span><br />
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publication of <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/560256515/kill-city-the-new-sonja-blue-novel" target="_blank"><b>KILL CITY</b>,</a> the first
new novel in the <b>Sonja Blue</b> series
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book proposal for <b>KILL CITY</b> was deemed ‘uncommercial’ by traditional publishers—largely due to a biting take on a
certain popular series of vampire novels aimed at the Young Adult market—I decided to forego drastically re-tooling the plot in favor of taking my case directly to the fans of the <b>Sonja Blue series. </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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emails and posts on my Facebook page from different fans throughout the world, wanting
to know when Sonja Blue will be making her return. In today’s radically changing
publishing world, there is no longer any need for the author of a widely read
series—one that won awards and has been reprinted in ten different languages—to
simply accept the say-so of a publisher as to what is commercially viable and
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to the distinction of being killed (in print, that is) by vampire slayer Sonja
Blue. <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/560256515/kill-city-the-new-sonja-blue-novel" target="_blank">The Kickstarter page also provides fans a chance to read a never-before seenexcerpt from the unpublished KILL CITY, as well as new music video showcasing the character of Sonja Blue that includes awide array of artwork from both professional creators and fans.</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Starting Midnight (PST) <b>Monday, October 22<sup>nd</sup> </b> and running until the Witching Hour (PST) Thursday, <b>October 26<sup>th</sup>,</b> every <b>Halloween-themed
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<b>Lucas D. Smith </b>narrates the tale of a Frankenstein gunslinger and his zombie horse as they ride out in search of revenge. <b>3 hours + </b>of gripping story-telling for <b>$14.95.</b><br />
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Nancy A. Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330096678180150576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288522559075961381.post-60429045206525825882012-10-01T20:55:00.000-07:002012-10-01T20:55:22.944-07:00Lynch: A Gothik Western<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For years Johnny Pearl tried to escape his demons by being a gunslinger. With his killer’s cool and famous pearl-handled pistol, he made a name for himself in the years following the Civil War as an outlaw. But fame has proved hollow, and Johnny finds himself on the outskirts of the Wyoming Territory, on the verge of taking his own life after one gunfight too many, until he finds redemption in the smile of Katie Small Dove.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Katie understands Johnny Pearl’s pain and helps heal his broken soul, giving him the strength to turn his back on his old life of death and destruction, and build a new future. Within a year he has a wife, a homestead, and a baby on the way, and for the first time in his life Johnny knows true happiness. Of course it can not last.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Johnny Pearl’s idyllic new world is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by the arrival of Captain Antioch Drake, a psychotic cavalry officer determined to avenge the recent massacre at Little Big Horn. Within minutes of Drake and his men arriving, the homestead is ablaze, his wife and unborn child cruelly slain, and Johnny left to hang from a cottonwood. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Normally, this would be the end of Johnny Pearl’s story—if not for the unexpected appearance of a medicine show wagon, driven by a strange old man called Doc Mirablis, who claims to have once been a friend and colleague of a certain Viktor Von Frankenstein.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The life and times of outlaw Johnny Pearl are over. But the adventures of the undead gunslinger called Lynch have just begun…</span></span><br />
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Nancy A. Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330096678180150576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288522559075961381.post-61177490830087151432012-09-26T07:13:00.000-07:002012-09-26T07:13:11.693-07:00Werewolves of the Old West: Walking Wolf<span style="background-color: black; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: cyan;">Walking Wolf a/k/a Billy Skillet is the orphaned son of white settlers, found as an infant and raised to be a proud Comanche warrior. He also happens to be a werewolf. When he loses control of his darker nature and ends up killing the woman he loves and his best friend, Walking Wolf heads out into the White Man's world to learn more about who--and what--he is. This is his story of self-discovery as he travels the Old West, crossing the paths of a couple of deranged serial killers, a traveling medicine show, a vampire gunslinger, even a fellow werewolf, as well as such historical figures as <b>Quanah Parker </b>and <b>Sitting Bull.</b> But all the dangers he finds himself facing, none is as deadly as the bounty hunter known as Witchfinder Jones, who holds the secret of Walking Wolf's origins. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1931: A team of parapsychologists enter Hell House in order to solve the riddle of Belasco's ultimate fate, only to meet with horror, insanity and death. The doors to Hell House are closed and locked for nine years.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1940: A second team of psychic and scientific experts, including the 15 year-old "Ghost Boy" Benjamin Franklin Fischer--the most gifted physical medium in modern history--return to explore the secrets of the most haunted house in the world--only to find Hell House eagerly awaiting its newest guests. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This novella was written, with permission from Richard Matheson, as a prequel to his classic haunted house novel, <b>Hell House </b>(1971), and originally appeared in the tribute anthology <b><i>He Is Legend</i></b> (Gauntlet Press, 2009). </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Warning: Contains Graphic Sex Scenes</b></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That is, until the night Carol Anne Fairweather and her boyfriend, Billy Mahan, parked too far down on Lover's Lane. On that old, foggy night Billy was attacked and knocked unconscious, while Carol Anne was brutally raped by someone--or something--that came out of the woods. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, in order to clear his name, Billy must discover what really happened that horrible night. But can his mind withstand the awful truth he uncovers? Or will he end up as mad as Old Gooney, the crazed hermit who claims to keep watch against the dark forces that would make Misty Valley their own? </span>
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Nancy A. Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330096678180150576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288522559075961381.post-14396465390365756352012-09-17T14:50:00.000-07:002012-09-25T21:38:14.279-07:00The Reflected Ones: A Tribute To Robert Bloch<span style="background-color: black; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A murderer uses an ancient book of arcane spells to escape justice by going through the looking glass--only to find that the other side of the mirror is far more dangerous than he ever imagined. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I wrote this short story as a tribute to one of my favorite authors, Robert Bloch, whose short fiction, such as <i>The Weird Tailor</i>, <i>Yours Truly Jack The Ripper</i>, and <i>A Case Of The Stubborns, </i>proved highly inspirational. </span><br />
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