Fiends That Want Your Blood by Brad Steiger

Author:Brad Steiger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Published: 2012-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Did the Dark Magician Conjure a Demon that Slaughtered Him and His Entire Family?

I often caution individuals who wish to study the Dark Arts that they must not regard such an undertaking lightly. I never encourage people to search the ancient texts for arcane incantations with which to conjure up entities from some other dimension or nether region. Such experimentation—as many have learned to their sorrow—can result in absolute terror, madness, and a grisly kind of death.

Some years ago, a prominent researcher told me of a classic case in the annals of crime detection and the occult, which was a ghastly tale, blood-soaked and one that definitely had a macabre association with the Powers of Darkness. As far as my confidante was aware, the bizarre crime, which occurred over 80 years ago, has never been solved.

It was a little before midnight on July 2, 1929, and in the center of Detroit, Michigan, lights still blazed and music and laughter blared from the city’s hot nightspots. But in that part of the city known as Little Italy, most of the inhabitants, who were hardworking folk, had retired early. The day had been a hot one, but a welcomed breeze stirred the trees on St. Aubin Street. The patrolman had just passed down the sidewalk and had turned into the police station on the corner to make his report that all was well.

Dominic Diapolo, who kept the delicatessen on St. Aubin, was always the last tradesman to close his shop. At about 11:30 pm, Diapolo came out of the premises and glanced up and down the street to assure himself that no more customers were approaching. He rather idly observed that lights were still burning at No. 3587 next door; but that was nothing unusual, for his neighbor, Benjamino Evangelista always kept late hours.

Benjamino Evangelista was an enigma not only to Diapolo but many of the other local folk who had known him in Italy before they had immigrated to the States. Evangelista was born in Casino, a rugged mountainous area where peasants still live, in thought and in habit, several generations behind the city dwellers of modern Italy. In 1914—when he was 28—Evangelista left his birthplace for the United States. He rapidly mastered the English language, and soon found work as a carpenter.

Nobody noticed anything unusual about him for several months, when he suddenly revealed himself as a prophet and a healer. Often he would pray fervently in the middle of his work, and one day when one of his workmates seriously cut himself, Evangelista promptly stopped the flow of blood from an artery by saying a few words over it in a language unknown to his companions. It seemed clear to them that he had occult powers.

Diapolo of the delicatessen didn’t believe that his neighbor was so gifted, but when a Mrs. Vaniel Vetrando, who lived nearby, told him that Evangelista had cured her ailing infant by making signs in the air over the child and reading in a strange language from a book, Diapolo began to reconsider the matter.

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