Bloody Halloween: An Akeldama Story

By Ardy

A year before the events in Akeldama: The Field of Blood a Halloween party turns deadly. Three bodies are found with wounds to the neck and most of their blood is gone. Sgt. Hector Ruiz, a veteran officer of the Hidden Valley police force discovers the murders. His old friend Dave Reilly has a theory. Ruiz saved Dave's life twenty years earlier and Dave insists that what was really after him was Vampires. While Ruiz tries to piece together the bizarre crime scene, Dave goes out to find the real culprits. And a young girl who was attending that party finds herself face to face with a Vampire who was once her best friend.
This is a prequel to Akeldama: The Field of Blood, and a sequel to Shawn Black: Vampire Hunter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ardy
• Release date: Jul 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476085081

Ardy

I live in Northern New Mexico. My biggest influences include Stephen King, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Frank Peretti, and Trey Parker. I write mainly fantasy, science fiction, and horror, often with a Christian slant.Some of the things I write are just for fun, like most of my free short stories, which I will continue to produce as long as these interesting, and sometimes quite messed up ideas keep popping into my head. Some things I write because I feel that they are important. I don't intend to be preachy and try not to insert messages into my writing unless I forewarn the reader that they'll be there. My main intentions with my works are to entertain the reader, make the reader think, and sometimes just to give them a good little scare.Two things seem to creep into my writing often. One is my faith. The other is my proclivity for horror, which even rears its ugly head in my Christian pieces.Check my blog for special coupons and discounts that will be available exclusively at smashwords.com.I appreciate any review, and please be honest.

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Bloody Halloween: An Akeldama Story

Ardy

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Copyright 2012 by Ardy

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The events in this story take place in Hidden Valley, New Mexico exactly one year before the Vampire uprising described in the novel Akeldama: The Field of Blood and nine years after the events in Shawn Black: Vampire Hunter. Both works are available at Smashwords.com.

CHAPTER ONE

The party sucked. Skylar Green had wanted to enjoy it. She’d been looking forward to it for weeks, based on all that she had heard, but Jared Davis’s annual Halloween party had turned out to be exactly the same as every other party she’d attended since moving to this crappy little town: loud music, lots of beer, drugs, obnoxious drunk freshmen trying to grope her. The only difference between this and the other parties she had been dragged to over the past three months was that the drunk and high idiots were wearing costumes. When she saw a six foot tall Winnie the Pooh passed out on Jared Davis’s couch smelling of beer, pot, and vomit, she knew she had had enough.

She looked for her friend Judy, who had been building up the image of this party in her mind since she had visited her home a year ago to check out the college. This was a small community college which had no dorms or campus housing so Skylar had stayed on Judy’s couch in her small apartment which was located above a thrift store. Now Skylar lived in that same apartment, barely large enough for one person, but she liked Judy, she liked the school, and she was happy there, mostly.

Judy was dressed as a witch (a sexy witch she had said) and had dyed her red hair black, painted her face white and her long nails jet black. Skylar should have been able to find her easily, except that it seemed that there were no less than twenty girls at this party in that uninspired costume. Skylar had gone as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and though the show had been in syndication for over a decade, most people had no idea what she was supposed to be.

After spending about half an hour searching for Judy and warding off the drunken advances of cowboys, cartoon characters, and superheroes, she found her