The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls by Alex Irvine

Author:Alex Irvine
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Media Tie-In, Fiction
ISBN: 9780061877216
Publisher: It Books
Published: 2007-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

ring of salt around the front entrance to the house. First clue: Elkins

knew something about something.

Then we ran into Dad, who had come for the same reason we

had. But he had another reason, which was that he was looking for

the Colt. We figured out that Elkins had been keeping it, which

meant that whatever had gotten him, that was who we had to

take the gun from. Elkins’s journal was a trove of information on

vampires: they nest in small groups, eight to ten, and send out indi-

viduals or smaller groups to hunt. Victims are taken to the nest,

where they’re kept alive for as long as the vampires can restrain

themselves.

No way to live, if you ask us. And for their victims, no way to

die. And in this case, it was worse, because these vampires had

killed a hunter. That made it a grudge match, especially for Dad.

Elkins was one of the first to show him the ropes, introduce him

around to other hunters. Now Elkins was gone, and there were

some vampires who had to pay.

That first hunt, we killed us some vampires—arrows dipped in

dead man’s blood to slow them down, and machetes for the finish

work. Along the way, we saved a few people from becoming a per-

manent lunch—and we got the Colt. Although we had to waste one

bullet on the leader of that nest, a tough guy who called himself

Luther.

The other thing we did was become a family again. Winchester

and Sons, at your service—if only for a while.

The next time we saw vampires, Dad was dead.

And as if that wasn’t enough of a shock, the vampires weren’t all

that bad.

This was in Red Lodge, Montana, after we’d lost the Colt, and

we’d lost Dad, and we were starting to get the feeling that war—the

Demon War—was really on the horizon. In other words, things

were pretty freakin’ crappy. We’d heard about a couple of decapita-

Ghouls, Revenants, Et Cetera 113

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