Support Your Local Monster Hunter by Dennis Liggio

Author:Dennis Liggio [Liggio, Dennis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

Our next stop, a suburban house in Glenntown, was the continuation of a disturbing trend. We didn't have a chance to stop and investigate, as the house was blocked off and illuminated by the red and blue flashing lights of the police. As we slowly made our way down the street behind other slow moving cars either unfortunate enough to have picked this street or wanting to see what was going on, we saw a body bag being carried off. Someone was dead, probably our target. We didn't know for sure, but it was my opinion that if we had looked in that bag, we would have seen a desiccated corpse missing its heart. We might have lingered for more information, but we got a funny look from an officer - probably seeing two sketchy men in an old car that didn't fit in the area. We took this as our cue to leave, so we passed by and got out of the area quickly.

In a bungalow in the Avalon Hills we found another body missing its heart. This one did look like the vamp from Kolchak's picture, so that was a confirmed death. In a studio apartment in Southend, we found another desiccated corpse in a scattered circle of easels. On one, someone in blood had smeared a symbol. The letter F, with an M or something like a trident branching from the bottom of the F. As I learned from Kolchak, this was how the Family identified themselves. He said it was on the revenant we killed, and all members of the family had it somewhere on their person.

The address Kolchak had in Chinatown was a dud, the building having burned in the Spring's arson. But in nearby Five Spokes, we found another body typical of the pattern - dead vampire missing its heart. I used to live in Five Spokes only a block from this location, so I was uncomfortable to know a vampire had been right under my nose. At least it was dead now.

"How many more places do we have to go?" I said as we pulled into traffic. There wasn't much traffic to speak of since it was now very late, but some people never sleep in Avalon. We were among them. "Because I'm thinking that Dorian was right. The Vengeful Rose in Avalon is dead."

Kolchak sighed. "I think you may be right. I wish I had some other confirmation, but as you have rightly pointed out, if I had that good intel on them, I would have killed them myself."

"Are we the only ones hunting them? Don't you have anyone to call? I know when we need backup or a consult, we have our friends Paulie and Meat. They do their own work, but if I suddenly thought all the ghouls had died out at once, they would be a real useful source on that."

He shook his head. "I'm the only one anymore. There's no one else to call on."

"Jeez, man. Why do you work alone? All these years, I'd think you would have recruited help.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.