Creepy America, Episode 4: Red Like Roses

By Noah Hoffmann

"There's an America you never knew existed..."

A series of horror short-stories, "Creepy America" recounts the webshow of the same name. Filmed, edited, and published by friends Zoey and Liam, the two traveled from state to state trying to find the truth behind the strange happenings, local hauntings, and urban legends all across the continental United State. Told years later from the perspective of Liam, these tales describe the events that transpired on the show, from the evolving friendship of the two co-hosts to the vast conspiracy uncovered piece by piece as more and more secrets are uncovered.

In this episode, Liam and Zoey read from a homemade spell book and suffer the consequences.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noah Hoffmann
• Release date: Oct 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463956038

Noah Hoffmann

A mild-mannered truck driver by day, I spend my nights writing mostly at an attempt to convince the last few shreds of sanity I have not to jump ship with the rest. When I'm not doing that, you can usually find me playing tabletop rpgs, raiding the "50 cents" section of bookstores, and generally committing similar acts to solidify my reputation as a "huge nerd." Otherwise, my time is spent caring for my loving and intelligent-deficit dog Slade and yelling at you for cutting me off in traffic.

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Creepy America: Episode 4

Red Like Roses

By Noah Hoffmann

Published by Noah Hoffmann and distributed by Smashwords.

Copywrite 2019 by Noah Hoffmann

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Other series by Noah Hoffmann:

The Adventures of Solaire

A fantasy adventure filled with magic, steampunk, and pirates.

Table of Contents

Episode 4

Creepy America

Episode 4

Red Like Roses

Hurricane, West Virginia

Over the years, Zoey and I have faced a lot of dangers filming Creepy America. Towards the end, it came to be expected that an episode would threaten our lives in some way. It should have been anticipated; after all, Creepy America was the equivalent of regularly poking a starving bear with a stick to see what happened. But before we adjusted to it, it was harrowing. Considering some of the things we went through, it’s a miracle that we even decided to keep working on the show at all. And while we had a few close calls with Worlds of Wonder and The Things We Leave Behind, it was during the episode Red Like Roses that the danger of what we were doing truly sank in for both  of us.

We had just left Ohio and had made  our way into West Virginia. Our last two episodes were edited and ready to upload, but Zoey insisted that we wait a week before uploading the first episode (second if you’re counting Worlds of Wonder, I suppose) so that we could use the two episode buffer to try to keep a regular update schedule. In the meantime, whoever wasn’t driving was using the trip time to promote the show online: we set up the website and put a countdown on it, updated the youtube channel with Worlds of Wonder on it, and made official social media accounts to start talking about it. Zoey had also edited together a trailer to post, made with clips from our previous three episodes. It didn’t make too many waves, but we got enough bites to keep our spirits up.

As I passed the sign letting