Hudson Valley Halloween Horror
Vincent: I’m afraid, cousin Jenny, that cousin Floyd will be unable to dine with us this evening.
Jenny: Why ever not?
Vincent: He had the misfortune of being eaten by a black jaguar in the woods last night.
Jenny: A black jaguar in the Hudson River Valley?
Vincent: No doubt the poor creature was a long ways from home. Which may explain why not much was left of Floyd when he was found. Only his right ear and the thumb on his left hand which was tattooed with a drawing of Napoleon. How they were able to identify him.
Jenny: How positively awful.
Vincent: I’ll say. He owed me $100. Money that I suppose now will never be repaid.
Jenny: What was he doing walking in the woods?
Vincent: No one is sure. The only thing known for sure is that he was wearing a pink nightgown while walking in the woods.
Jenny: So that’s why they called him Pink Floyd.
Vincent: Undoubtedly.
Jenny: Whatever happened to that nutty woman they found walking in the woods last week?
Vincent: The one who claimed to have come from the year 2021 and believed herself to be a female Christ saying if people vaccinated themselves, they were Apostles of her love.
“That’s the one,” Jenny nodded.
“I had her burnt at the stake as a witch,” Vincent answered.
“Burnt at the stake?” Jenny was shocked.
“Yes, there was some old wood I was wanting to get rid of,” Vincent nodded, “so I killed two birds with one stone.”
A pair of large black ravens fell from the sky.
“She was a witch?” Jenny turned pale.
“Yes the demons Moloch, Baal and Baphomet visited her room at the village inn,” Vincent explained, “where they jabbed the innkeeper’s daughter with a needle and she died.”
“Awful,” Jenny shook her head.
“There is much evil in the land,” Vincent noted just as the clock was 5 minutes shy of twelve, “Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand and whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down must stand and face the hounds of Hell and rot inside a corpse’s shell.”
“There’s a three headed dog out there,” Jenny gasped as she looked out the window.
“That would be Cerberus,” Vincent explained.
Vincent went over to his sitting room book shelf and grabbed a volume of ancient Koine Greek and looked up the words for “Sit” and “Good boy”.
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Tuesday October 5th
2021.
Dracul Van Helsing 
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