Vampire Dreams (Bloodscreams #1) by Walker Robert W

Author:Walker, Robert W. [Walker, Robert W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RobertWalkerbooks.com
Published: 2010-04-14T15:00:00+00:00

Stroud guessed the unknown ingredient to be a vampire gene. Banaker was into genetic splicing. He'd taken the best of human blood and the best of vampire blood and had created a new strain of the liquid of life. “The life of the flesh is in the blood,” he said, quoting Leviticus 17:11. Stroud knew a lot about blood from firsthand knowledge. He knew that there was nothing in nature that had so profound an emotional effect on people as blood--unless it was the human skull. For blood could cause a person to faint, make his head reel, while at the same time irresistibly attracting him. At the same time that it inspired disgust, nausea, and a desire to murder, it amazed and fascinated. Some police shrinks believed that the underlying motive behind sexual murder was nearly always the desire to shed blood and not the desire to cause death. Some nut they'd caught after a series of murders one year in Chicago had killed people only so he could wipe their blood over his skin in the honest belief that to do so would keep him ever young and ever strong.

The Banaker family had learned medicine and modern technologies enough to know all of this and much more, to use the genetic coding of their race to infiltrate that of the human race, and to become as close to normal people as possible. Banaker had taken the medium of blood to create a new class of vampire. The gods and demons in Ancient Babylonia and Greece, according to the superstitions of the time, were attracted to the smell of bloodshed, especially to the bodies of the violently slain. In which case, Stroud thought, Satan had had a field day in Vietnam, and was now having a merry time in Andover, Illinois.

“From the emanations of shed blood,” he heard himself saying as his thoughts became words, “disembodied entities--spirits--build up appearances and become visible.”

He could not believe the thought that next crossed his mind, and yet he needed counsel--he needed the counsel of his forefathers, of his grandfather! And there might be a way to gather Ananias's ghost here, to him. The way was clear, but it was also ghoulish. It might also backfire. Could he do it? he asked himself moments before bolting off for the bodies in the freezer upstairs.

When he stormed upstairs, shouting for Ashyer to help him transport all the bodies to the central chamber, Ashyer hesitated a moment and asked, “Are you sure, sir?”

“I am certain. Let's do it.”

At the same time the intercom announced a peeling of thunder outside, followed by Ray Carroll's voice. “Let him through, Lonnie!” Stroud told Wilson, who stood at the controls.

When the door opened for Carroll, Stroud and Ashyer were hefting Magaffey's body down the hallway.

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Ray Carroll was aghast at the sight before him, his eyes telling the story, telling the others his immediate thoughts as if they were thrown up on a screen: he had stepped into a madhouse where the inmates had already done considerable damage.

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