Happy Halloween! Scaring Myself Silly After "The Blair Witch Project"

The Blair Witch Project is a movie you either love or hate, and the hate is out there for it. I know this, but I don't care. It was special for me since I went to college in that area. I new every ghost legend in Burkittsville and I'd never heard of the Blair Witch. I immediately knew it wasn't real. Still, the movie scared the piss out of me. I saw it when my husband was away on a business trip so I was alone in the house. After the movie I went for a walk in Dogtown near my home. That's an old, five mile deserted former Colonial settlement stuck in the middle of the woods. If you've seen Blair Witch, you can guess where my story is going.

I was fine until I was on my way out of the woods. Some kind of animal shrieked high up in the trees and I couldn't pinpoint exactly where it was coming from. I only knew it was following me and getting closer. It was also getting dark and I was terrified. I high-tailed it out of the woods, nearly taking the wrong hiking path farther into rocky terrain. When I finally reached familiar territory I felt relieved, especially since that high-pitched shrieking stopped moving. I was on my way out of the woods but that shriek kept back. Every time I walk in Dogtown I think about that high-pitched shrieking and I wonder what it was. It wasn't an owl. I've heard owls before. I had no idea what it was.

Years later, I think I discovered what I heard. It may have been a fisher cat. This is what a fisher cat sounds like:

Imagine that following you in the middle of the woods when it's getting dark outside and you're completely alone. I hear fisher cats are nasty, mean creatures, too. I'm glad I didn't run into it.

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Halloween Blog Tour - Welcome L. C. Hu

And a Succubus at the Kissing Booth

Happy nearly-Halloween everyone!  Thanks to Elizabeth Black for having me by! 

Halloween's one of my favorite holidays for many, many reasons. You might say I was born under a Halloween star.  This year, my Halloween treat is the release of The Midnight Carnival: One Night Only, a collection of thirteen interrelated short stories that follow one night--Halloween--at the strange carnival. 

The Midnight Carnival turns up in small, haunted towns all over the country, and its staff are more than they seem at first glance.  With a demon manning security, vampires, ghosts, and psychics on the midway, and faeries and werewolves under the big top, you never know what you'll get when you visit--or if you'll be able to leave at all.

So, to kick off the holiday fun, I'm interviewing the resident kissing booth girl and cambion Crhel.  (Thank you to Ashley Garst for relaying Crhel's answers!)

Hello Crhel!  That's an interesting name you've got there!  How exactly DO you pronounce it?

You just say it? Crhel. CRHEL. Why is that so hard for everyone? CRRRRHEELLL. Crhel. Crhel? It's a pretty name, I hate how all you humans mess it up.

And you're a cambion, right?  Half-succubus, half-human.  Who were your parents? Where did you spend more time when you were growing up, in the human world, or the demonic one? 

I don't know who my mother was -- some human. But my daddy is Asmodeus, a prince of Hell. Which kind of makes me a princess, I guess? I grew up in Hell. This is my first time in the human world. It's OK, I guess. The Oreos are good, though.

You run the kissing booth.  What's the best kiss you've gotten there?  The worst kiss?

The best kiss I've gotten is from my human, Rylee. Don't tell him I called him a human, he doesn't like that. He wants me to call him my boyfriend, but isn't that kind of the same thing? The worst kiss was from this one guy who used way too much tongue. It was more like slobbering all over my face. Ew.

As a cambion, what's working the kissing booth like?  An endless line of say, cheetos all lined up for your snacking pleasure? A neverending tease? 

It's nice when I have a healthy diet. It's kind of like... Rylee took me to the grocery store once and they have people standing around holding out these little trays with things with little sticks through them that he told me were tooth picks but I don't like them because you can't eat them but anyway, it's kind of like that. I get to nibble on people and see how good they would taste if I had more than just a kiss.

So you were recently introduced to Halloween--something these good folks'll get to read about in  One Night Only!.  Are there any Halloween-like celebrations you grew up with? 

No, we don't have many holidays in Hell. Before I came up here, I thought being in Hell was great, and now? Well, being in Hell is still great, but there are still some neat things about the human world too. Like candy! Candy is the best. I don't know why you keep it all just for one day. Halloween should be every  day. Just like Oreos should be every day.

Anything else you'd like to tell us?

I like Oreos?

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This Halloween, Crhel is one of the many stars of The Midnight Carnival: One Night Only.  To learn more about The Midnight Carnival: One Night Only, visit maddocsoflit.com or find L.C. Hu at elsiewho.wordpress.com!

The Wicked, Weird and Whimsical Words Halloween Blog Tour runs every other day October 23-October 31.  Join us all five days for Halloween fun!  Be sure to say hello on any post to be entered in a giveaway at the end of the tour! 

Halloween Special Sale And Free Erotica!

In honor of Halloween, my favorite holiday, I, Elizabeth Black, am holding a special sale including FREE EROTICA!

From October 28 through November 3, when you buy my stories "Alicia" or "When The Veil Is Thin", show me proof of purchase and you get one of my erotic fairy tales FOR FREE! They are "Climbing Her Tower" erotic Rapunzel) and "Trouble In Thigh High Boots" (erotic Puss In Boots). These two fairy tales are also marked down from $2.99 to 99 cents during that week. Don't pass up this great opportunity to enjoy some good books.

Email me your proof of purchase at mselizabethablack@comcast.net, and tell me which fairy tale you prefer.

"When The Veil Is Thin" is a fantasy tale about a woman who finds the man of her dreams in every sense of the words. He is in her dreams, when she sleeps at night. There is a rare planetary alignment that allows her to use magic to make him real. In order to make him flesh and blood and a living part of her world, she must follow the explicit instructions of spells cast within the three days of the alignment. How does she accomplish this, especially when it comes to her greatest fear? Read the story and find out!

Blurb for "When The Veil Is Thin":

Angelica Preston is in for the ride of her life. With the help of a little magic, she meets the man of her dreams - literally. Antonio is the main character in her latest romance novel, but she makes passionate love to him in her dreams. He tells her she can make him a flesh-and-blood lover only if she follows explicit instructions. She has three days to achieve her goal. Does she do as she is told, or does she need to be punished for not following through? Time is running out. How will Angelica win Antonio in the end?

Amazon US: http://tinyurl.com/amazon-us-veil

Amazon UK: http://tinyurl.com/amazon-uk-veil

House Of Erotica (UK): http://tinyurl.com/hoe-veil

"When The Veil Is Thin" web site:

http://elizabethablack.blogspot.com/p/when-veil-is-thin.html

"Alicia" is a story close to my heart, since I enjoy horror but I also enjoy writing romances. So I combined the two in "Alicia".

Blurb for "Alicia":

When the love of his life, Alicia, calls him in the middle of the night to report she had been raped, Eric drops everything to come to her rescue. She takes him on an eerie ride through turbulent hours he can't quite comprehend. Alicia may need his help, but her situation is not what it seems.

Rape is a tough topic to tackle, so to add a horrific eerieness to the entire ordeal makes it even more confusing and frightening. Eric learns as much about himself as he does about Alicia as he helps her through her trauma. This book is available at the Mocha Memoirs Press web site as well as the regular ebook distributors.

Nook: http://tinyurl.com/nook-alicia

Amazon US: http://tinyurl.com/kindle-alicia

Mocha Memoirs Press: http://mochamemoirspress.com/alicia/

"Alicia" web site: http://eablack-writer.blogspot.com/p/mocha-memoirs-press.html

When you buy my stories "Alicia" or "When The Veil Is Thin", show me proof of purchase and you get one of my self-published erotic fairy tales FOR FREE! You have your choice between the following stories:

CLIMBING HER TOWER - erotic Rapunzel

(Available at Amazon and other distributors)

This isn't your mother's Rapunzel.

This erotic version of Rapunzel, "Climbing Her Tower" depicts Rapunzel as a voracious woman who discovers the joys of kinky sex with a sexy prince with a few unusual kinks of his own. This story includes BDSM, M/F, M/F/F, virgin fantasy, and erotic shaving. You'll get so hot you'll want to let your hair down as well! Let Rapunzel and her prince take you on the sexual ride of a lifetime. Absolutely only for 18 years and over.

""Climbing Her Tower" is an erotic twist to the fairy tale Rapunzel. I sure love a good fairy tale and this hot and steamy tale doesn't disappoint." -- Beverly at Sizzling Hot Book Reviews

"Climbing Her Tower has all that and more. It is the story of Rapunzel told with a bit of a BDSM twist." -- Hitherandthee from Night Owl Reviews

WARNING: Rapunzel isn't sweet and innocent. In this fairy tale erotica, she tires of being a virgin and craves the touch of Prince Richard's hands all over her body. Although she begins naive, she blossoms with sexual excitement under the watchful eye of her prince, who introduces her to BDSM, erotic shaving, and deep penetration. He leaves her wanting more, and you will want more too!

TROUBLE IN THIGH HIGH BOOTS - erotic Puss In Boots

(Availalbe at Amazon and other distributors)

This isn't your mother's Puss In Boots.

This erotic version of Puss In Boots, "Trouble In Thigh High Boots" is a story packed with hot, sexy, body humping adult fairy tale erotica.

"Trouble in Thigh High Boots is a delightfully creative retelling of the Puss in Boots tale. It is a tale that has been told myriad times, but never in such a wonderfully imaginative way. The characters are enchanting, and the story flows beautifully. The love scenes are sizzling." -- Hitherandthee of Night Owl Reviews

WARNING: Tita isn't your run of the mill Puss In Boots. She's a cat shapeshifter who turns into a mouth-wateringly sexy human woman with a sex drive to match. This story includes M/F, F/F, M/F/M/F, light bondage, and lactation. This erotic fairy tale will get you hot in all the right places. Definitely for only 18 years and over.

Don't let this sale go by without taking advantage of it! Enjoy some hot erotica and a spooky tale just in time for Halloween.

Nadia Ali - Fantasy (Tritonal Air Up There Remix)

Big Cat Diary Theme

One of the themes from Big Cat Diary. I'm just in the mood for it.

Halloween Blog Tour - Welcome Justine Graykin

Good lord, what am I doing here?

This place is dark and scary, filled with strange creatures.  I feel like Brad and Janet wandering haplessly into the Frankenfurter’s castle.  Like I walked into a Jen Pelland reading when I was looking for Vonnie Winslow Crist.

You see, I write warm, uplifting, anti-dystopian stories which range from the gentle and whimsical to the soaringly idealistic.  I infuse my work with a sense of humor, and I prefer to leave my characters discreetly at the bedroom door, averting my gaze from their intimacies with a slight blush.  I don’t write erotica, and I certainly don’t write horror. 

No, wait, that’s not quite true.  Once I wrote a story called “Chimera.”

It was about Morgan Kaiser-Caine.  They—and I don’t use the pronoun simply to be genderless; Morgan is indeed two people in one body—has a medical condition called tetragametic chimerism.  Twins fused in the womb, united into a single body.  Test the DNA from a drop of blood, and you would find one.  Analyze a sample of liver cells, you would find the other.  Two beings occupying the same space, two minds occupying the same brain, awash in the same chemicals, understanding the same things, the cells of one intimately pressed up against the cells of the other in perfect cooperative harmony.

In Morgan’s case the two persons are male and female.  The result is an exquisite hermaphrodite.  Unique in that, unlike most hermaphrodites, both sets of sexual organs coexist, fully functional.  A divine freak.  Beautiful, brilliant, eloquent, and united against a world which has relegated them to the role of sideshow spectacle and scientific curiosity.  They need allies.  Not merely to survive, but to overcome.  Because they have deduced that they are the next enormous step in evolution, the ultimate resolution to the battle of the sexes.  They are the progenitors of a race that shall replace monosexual beings.

By force if necessary.

This is not just a horror story because of the beautiful monster at its center, but because Morgan makes a such a good case for themselves.  Logical.  It is difficult to dispute the elegant efficiency of an organism which can exploit the advantages of sexual reproduction while dispensing with its drawbacks.  Chillingly Nietzschean.

And, oh the erotic possibilities, particularly to the bisexual professor who becomes fascinated by Morgan and is seduced by them.

But what would Morgan care for true love when they already have each other?

Also, unlike most of my other stories, this one does not end on a positive, uplifting note.  The story squats among my other published works, grinning diabolically, Halloween among my holidays.  Honestly, I don’t know what possessed me.

But if you are curious, you can find a link to it on my website at justinegraykin.com.  And now, as honored as I am to be a guest here, I really must be going.  This place is quite charming, I’m sure, but more than a bit unsettling.

Justine Graykin is a writer and free-lance philosopher sustained by her deep, abiding faith in Science, Humanity and the belief that humor is the best anti-gravity device. Author of Archimedes Nesselrode, a book written for adults who are weary of adult books, she is producer of the BroadPod podcast.   She lives, writes and putters around her home in rural New Hampshire, occasionally disappearing into the White Mountains with a backpack.  Find her at JustineGraykin.com

The Wicked, Weird and Whimsical Words Halloween Blog Tour runs every other day October 23-October 31.  Join us all five days for Halloween fun!  Be sure to say hello on any post to be entered in a giveaway at the end of the tour!