Draculas by Jeff Strand

Author:Jeff Strand
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Horror, Fiction
Published: 2010-10-19T05:00:00+00:00

CUB SCOUT GORE FEAST

A Bonus Short Story by J.A. Konrath & Jeff Strand

"Isn't this when you start telling scary stories, Mr. Hollis?"

Hollis grinned, staring at the boys around the campfire. Cub Scouts, none of them older than ten. For some, the first night they'd ever spent away from their families.

"Are you scouts sure you want to hear a scary story?"

"Yes!" they chorused.

"Even though it's dark and we're all alone in the spooky, menacing forest?"

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Hollis sat down on his haunches. His face became serious.

"Okay, I'll tell you a scary story. Scary because it's the absolute, hand-on-my-heart truth. You've all heard rumors about Troop 192, how they disappeared without a trace not too far from here, right?"

Several of the boys nodded.

"Well, the rumors were wrong. There were lots of traces of Troop 192. There were traces all over the place...on the ground, up in the trees, by the lake, maybe even under where you're sitting right now. Imagine if you took a blender, like the kind your mothers use to make smoothies, but it was a giant blender, maybe...I dunno, eighteen feet high. And then you dropped the entire Troop 192 into it, and accidentally left the lid off, so that when you pressed the 'blend' button they sprayed all over the place. That's what it looked like."

"I heard it was just one kid who went missing," said Anthony.

Hollis shrugged. "If you think one little kid has that many guts inside of his body, more power to you, but I was here. I saw it. It was gross."

"My mom said they found him the next morning. He was playing Nintendo."

"Oh, well, I guess your mom is in a position where she was allowed to accompany the law enforcement agencies on their search, huh? Did she somehow become deputized without anybody hearing about it? Do Hooters waitresses typically get to tag along on searches for missing children?"

"She works at Olive Garden."

"Whatever. She wasn't there on the night of the investigation. I'm telling you that it was the entire troop, and their insides were strewn as far as the eye can see." Hollis made a grand gesture with both arms to emphasize the extent of the carnage. "And do you know who got blamed for it?"

Several of the scouts shook their heads.

"Madman Charlie. Oh, they arrested him, and sent him to the electric chair the next morning. But it wasn't Madman Charlie. When Troop 192 was massacred, he was off murdering a young woman in a completely different county. No, Troop 192 wasn't slaughtered by Madman Charlie. They weren't even slaughtered by something...human."

One of the youngest scouts, Billy somebody, raised his hand. No doubt because he was too terrified to hear more.

"Billy, are you too terrified to hear more?" Hollis asked. "Because that's okay. Nobody here will judge you."

"No, Mr. Hollis. I have to go to the bathroom."

Hollis sighed again. "Go ahead, Billy. But don't go too far away. Anyway, there's something inhuman in these woods. Something that hungers for human flesh."

Theolonious raised his hand.

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