Fear- The Complete Trilogy of Horror Short Stories

by Lee Jones

  NUCLEAR BLAST

  The cargo plane has just taken off and is still ascending. They are looking out of the cargo door and can see a bright light in the distance but it soon becomes to blinding and they cover their eyes. The cargo door is slowly pulling up.

  “Brace for impact!” someone yells. BOOM! the shockwaves from the blast shake the entire plane and almost knock it out of the sky. Extreme turbulence follows and alarms on the plane are going off in the cockpit. Everyone inside is screaming and holding on for dear life.

  To be continued…

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  FEAR

  A THIRD COLLECTION OF HORROR SHORT STORIES

  LEE JONES

  2018 © Lee Jones

  2018 copyright. All rights reserved. Published by Saturn Publishing.

  This is a work of fiction. While as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of all authors imagination or are used fictitiously.

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  FEAR

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  MAILING LIST

  INTRODUCTION

  THE VAMPIRE HUNTER

  SILVER BULLET

  VISITOR

  THE HUNT

  SECRET MAP

  TAKEN

  PRISONER

  ESCAPE

  PLAN B

  BATTLE

  BURN

  THE UNDEAD: APOCALYPSE

  AT SEA

  MISSION

  AMBUSH

  BACKUP PLAN

  APOCALYSPE

  THE OTHER SIDE

  OUTPOST

  SAFETY

  SETTLING IN

  THE GATEKEEPER

  INTRODUCTION

  ARMY OF DESTRUCTION

  URGENT MESSAGE

  CONQUEST

  VICTORY

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  INTRODUCTION

  Three short stories appear in this final book in the Fear trilogy. The Vampire Hunter takes place in London in the victorian era during a steam punk alternate universe. Vampires are killing humans at an alarming rate and the Vampire Hunter is tasked with stopping them. He unravels a secret but can he stop the vampire feast before it’s too late? The Undead: Apocalypse is part 4 in the Undead series. Lastly, we have the first part of The Gatekeeper: Protector of the Realms. A fantasy book that introduces readers to the next amazing series from author Lee Jones.

  THE VAMPIRE HUNTER

  SILVER BULLET

  Our story takes place in London during the late 1880s during the victorian era. The coming of age technology is powered by steam. Horse and buggy still reign but cars are powered by steam. On a bustling dirt street is a vaudeville theater. The audience mostly the poor and working class are booing at the act on the stage.

  The woman performer is standing speechless and frightened as they crowd starts to throw tomatoes at her. A tomato hits her in the face.

  The host of the show runs from behind the curtain and grabs the woman performer who is stunned speechless.

  “Come on,” he says and he drags her behind the curtain. He shakes her on the arms looking in her eyes, “What happened to you out there?” He walks back out the center of the stage dodging tomatoes projectiles. “Okay okay! Ladies and gentleman! I present to you our next act.

  The magician, the illusionist of darkness Victor Hugo!”

  In The crowd watching is Adrian. He has a pistol on his hip hidden under his long coat. The chamber is filled with silver coated bullets.

  A thin pale man walks out on the stage. The crowd starts booing.

  “For this illusion I will need one volunteer,” says Victor. He points at a young lady in the audience. She looks shocked that he is pointing at her but she runs to the stage.

  On the stage is a contraption with a table and a large circular saw. A box covers the middle section from view leaving the ankles and hands and head open. The circular saw is raised on a lever above the middle section.

  “The lovely young lady will be strapped onto the table!”

  When she reaches the stage he kisses on her hand. With the wave of his hand he instructs her to lay inside the contraption. She slides in and he then proceeds to strap her ankles and hands to the table.

  The large circular saw aimed at the mid section of her body starts turning. He waves his hand and it slowly lowers down as it spins faster.

  The crowd is stunned in suspense and gasp can be heard in the audience.

  “Stop this madman!” yells a man in the audience. The saw comes down and the blade touches her body. It appears the saw is magically going through and she is fine. Then there is blood splattering from the blade of the saw. The saw goes deeper and blood is oozing to the floor. The young lady is screaming and her hands and feet in the cuffs are shaking.

  She quickly succumbs to death and all movement is stopped. The audience is stunned at what they just witnessed. The saw completes going through the table and is at the bottom of the table. Victor walks up and separates the two sides of the tables to present to the audience. His illusion is now complete, which may not be an illusion at all.

  Revealed is the end’s of the young woman with blood and internal body parts falling out. Victor takes a bow. “Murder!” yells a man in the audience.

  Bang! a shot rings out. Victor ducks. In the audience is Adrian holding his pistol out pointed at the stage. Victor quickly runs behind the curtain out of view. The crowd disperses and runs towards the exits of the theater. Adrian runs towards the stage and climbs up on the stage. He runs lifting the curtain towards backstage. A jungle of ropes and wires are obstructing his view. He hears a sound and looks up. Victor the magician is climbing up.

  Adrian looks over and sees a ladder going up. He runs to it and starts climbing. Victor has now reached the second level of the stage a bridge suspended by ropes above the stage. Adrian gets to that level and can see Victor is attempting to reach the roof.

  The bridge swings side to side as Adrian steps onto it. He is trying to keep balance.

  “Stop right there vampire!” Adrian presents a cross arm length at Victor. He is standing on one end of the bridge while Victor is on the other end trying to find a way to the roof. Victor turns around to look over his shoulder. Adrian runs towards Victor and tackles him to the floor of the bridge. The bridge swings back and forth. He is now onto of Victor and he presents the cross in Victors face. Victor glances at the cross and his face immediately turns dark and veins pop in his face. Victor turns his head not to look and he shoves Adrian off. He gets up and steps back running for the wall.

  He leaps into the air and grabs a rope hanging off the wall. Victor is now climbing up the wall. Adrian who was slightly knocked out rolls over and gets up. He can see Victor climbing the wall and has almost reached the ceiling. He stands back at the bridge and runs and leaps towards the same rope on the wall.

  Victor has now climbed through a small door in the ceiling reaching the roof outside. Adrian has now climbed up and attempts to push through the door. The door seems stuck or something heavy is holding it down.

  Several pushes and Adrian pushes through the door climbing onto the roof. Victor is standing on the edge of the roof of the theater. “Stop! stop!” Adrian yells. He pulls out his pistol an
d aims. Victor looks behind then leaps disappearing out of view. The trigger is fired but the shot misses. He appeared to leap to his death below but to where?

  Adrian runs to the same location on the roof. He looks down and he sees Victor running through the streets below pushing citizens to the side. Victor runs into a building and disappears out of sight in the darkness of night. Adrian is disappointed. He catches his breath and wipes his brow.

  VISITOR

  Adrian is in his flat. He has photos of suspects lining his walls. A candle flickers in the darkness as he writes in his notebook.

  The vampire has escaped. Tall, dark and last seen at the vaudeville theater in London. Suspect is still on the run.

  A knock at his door. Adrian gets up to answer it. He opens the door unlatching several locks and chains and a woman appears in distraught. “I am told you are the man who killed Victor,” she says.

  “What do you want?” says Adrian. “Excuse my manners sir, my name is Elizabeth. My sister was murdered by the hands of Victor!” she says.

  “I cannot help you,” says Adrian. He attempts to close the door but her foot is in the opening preventing him from closing it. “I said I cannot help you,” says Adrian.

  “But sir! I am told you are the vampire hunter!” she says through the crack of the door. “Ma’am I cannot help you,” he shoves her and slams the door shut.

  He turns and thinks for a moment. He swallows unsure what to do. He then turns and opens the door again. The woman is on her way downstairs. “Ma’am! Come on inside!” he says. She stops to look at him and walks back to him walking inside his flat. She walks inside looking all around and he shuts the door.

  “Wow what is this place?” she says. She sits down next to his desk where he is writing. “I attempted to kill the vampire but he escaped. I’ve been tracking him for several weeks,” says Adrian.

  “Many young women have been disappeared or bodies have been found in London the past few years. It’s getting worst. The police are perplexed and have not been able to find enough evidence. I want justice for my sister,” she says.

  “Yes, on my wall here you will see photos of suspected vampires. They only come out at night. Preying on unsuspected young women, sometimes men. Now with my failure to kill Victor sets me back,” says Adrian.

  “I can help you, I can help you locate the demon,” she says.

  “I work alone,” says Adrian. “Please sir, I want this as much as you do,” as she looks into his eyes. Adrian stares at her for a moment thinking.

  “Okay, you will help me but any problems slowing me down you will be removed,” he says. She nods her head, “Yes sir.”

  THE HUNT

  Adrian is watching though his spyglass a cargo ship on the dock on the river Thames. Steam is bellowing from the chimney.

  The crew is unloading crates and barrels. Elizabeth a young beautiful woman is making some moves. She is at the dock. She uses her beauty and charm and she convinces the man guarding the gangway to the ship to let her onboard. She turns and gives the signal with her hand.

  Adrian puts down the spyglass. He pulls out a gadget from his belt underneath his long coat. It’s a pistol device with a hook and wire reel. He aims it at the edge of building and pulls the trigger. The hook flies through the air with the wire attached and it latches on to the edge of the roof.

  He pulls on a latch and the reel starts to wind in. Steam is coming from the gadget. The hook is attached firmly to the building. Adrian grabs with both hands and the gadget pull him up to the top of the building.

  He hoist himself over the ledge onto the roof of the building. He pulls out a rifle from his back and looks into the scope. He has his sights on a worker. He pulls the trigger and a man goes down with the bullet exiting through his head. The other man scurry and run away.

  Adrian puts the rifle away and runs towards the edge of the building and pulls a latch from his backpack. A parasail deploys and he glides down towards the location of the ship. He touches down and detaches the sail. He walks up onto the gangway on the ship.

  On the ship he walks towards the bridge of the ship. Elizabeth is inside, she is attempting to break open a safe on the bridge of the steam ship.

  “Step back,” he says. He pulls another gadget from his belt. It’s a pistol like device and he points it at the safe. It shoots two disk that attach to the door of the safe. He pulls the trigger again and the disk explode busting open the safe door. Boom!

  Elizabeth runs over and can see something sitting inside of the safe. It’s a scroll. She unravels it and can see it’s a map. “Look at this Adrian, it’s a map,” she says. Adrian looks over her shoulder. “Interesting,” he says.

  “Get them!” a man yells on the dock. He has appeared from no where and is pointing to them. Other men are scurrying running towards them. “We need to go now,” says Adrian. He pulls out a hand held device with some knobs and buttons on it. He presses some buttons and pulls a knob.

  “Ok go stand by the edge starboard side! I am going to hold them off!”

  Elizabeth runs over and is waiting by the side of the ship. The men now are running up the gangway. Adrian pulls out a revolver pistol. Ding! a bullet flies past his head and bounces off metal. They are firing on him.

  Elizabeth can hear a motorized sound coming down the river. She can’t see because it’s night time and dark. She then see’s a boat moving fast towards them. The boat however has no pilot. It is steering itself.

  “Get on that boat Elizabeth!” Adrian looks behind his shoulder trying to stop the attack with his pistol pointed in front of him. Elizabeth makes a leap and jumps on the speed boat. She rolls on the floor of the boat as the boat speeds by. The boat turns in a circular motion in the water.

  She gets up and looks at the console. It’s a console of knobs and buttons and a large steering wheel. She attempts to turn the steering wheel back to the direction of the cargo ship but it does not respond. She starts banging on presses buttons and switches and tries again. She can now steer the boat.

  She steers it back to the cargo ship in port where Adrian is in a fire fight.

  Adrian is held down behind a metal wall of the ship leaning over periodically to take a shot.

  Ping! Ping! bullets are flying past. He looks behind him and see’s Elizabeth in the boat. He gets up and makes a run for it leaping off the edge of the ship onto the boat speeding by. He lands inside the boat rolling around and hitting himself in his back.

  “Damn that hurt!” he says. Elizabeth turns the boat around and steers it down the river. Shots are fired at them in the boat but the quickly are out of range as the boat makes it way farther down the river.

  SECRET MAP

  The map they smuggled on this daring mission a few days ago is a map to the vampire underground. It was rumored that the vampires lived underground the city but he could never located the entrance to such a place.

  Adrian and Elizabeth are in a pub at night. The gas lanterns and candles light the interior. The people are rowdy and loud. Music plays in the background and people dance. Adrian has a few bandages on his side where he fell on his amazing leap to escape.

  They are trying to blend in. They are watching a suspect in the crowd with a young lady. He dips and weaves through the crowd and makes his way to a back door holding the young ladies hand.

  “Follow him,” says Adrian to Elizabeth. Elizabeth follows the suspect going to the back door entrance leading into a kitchen. The man goes into a closet door.

  Adrian still out in the pub area, follows Elizabeth and walks behind secretly back into the kitchen area. Elizabeth follows the suspect and opens the close door. He leads down steps into a darkness. She goes to grab a single candle careful not to blow out the flame. She holds the candle steady and walks down the steps looking all around.

  She can’t see much but darkness. On the ground below her feet is sand. She can see the clothes, on the ground. He feet then brush up against human bones.

  Adrian sneaks into t
he back kitchen. He looks around looking for another path. He then looks over and see’s the door to the closet is open.

  He looks inside down the steps and see’s it’s completely dark. He grabs a candle.

  Adrian walks down the steps slowly. He has his silver pistol drawn on alert.

  TAKEN

  At the bottom of the steps he feels sand below his feet. He waves the candle around in different directions but can’t see anything. He then hears something. A scream in the distance. “Elizabeth!?” he yells out. Another scream.

  “Elizabeth!? Where are you?”

  He walks up to the entrance of a tunnel with art engraved on the sides of the entrance wall. He holds his candle up to it inspecting the symbols. Another scream is heard in the distance. Adrian shines the candle below and can see a trail of footprints. He follows the footprints in the darkness.