Was it a trick of the light?
Or was something there?
The shadowy image
That gave us a scare
Was it a face in the window
that we did observe?
I should really go check,
but I don’t have the nerve
Padre
What Did We See?
Gothic
Beyond the Mist
Dare you venture into the mist?
Your spine to chill by terror kissed
What lurks ahead is not clear
Building on your lingering fear
So you stay at home behind locked door
Until a knock rocks you to your core
What is it that on the other side awaits
Marauding teenaged trick-or-treaters within your gates
Padre
Visitors
“What? Visitors at this hour? This will never do?” Henrietta said looking through the lace curtains at the car in her drive.
A couple of young men wearing dark suits with nametags stepped from the vehicle. The passenger reached into the car to retrieve a book and some papers.
The pair rang the bell and waited with angelic, smiling faces.
“Maybe, this will be more pleasant than I thought,” she said licking her lips and winking at her familiar.
Padre
Gothic 25: Presence
He thought he saw her upon the stair
But when he looked back she wasn’t there
“An illusion,” he thought, “A trick of the light”
After all it was at night
But the next day – in the rear view mirror
“Was that her again?” getting nearer
How could it be – that there was this presence?
He had been so careful
To hide the evidence
He headed back to where the body lay
The grave was untouched covered in clay
But the visions continued
She appeared repeatedly
He had to to know – had to go and see
So with shovel in hand
He turned the soil
The smell alone made him recoil
But the evidence was clear,
His guilt to attest
Just as the police arrived
And made the arrest
Padre
Last Interview
I watched helplessly from behind the two-way glass
As the interview room filled with eerie gas
Detective Margaret Smith on her last duty day
Interviewing a suspect from far away
The Perp grew tentacles and at Smith did lunge
Breaking the cuffs – the room into mist did plunge
The last thing I remember was her pleading face
Before being devoured by a creator from outer space
Padre
That Season
It was nearly All Hallows, and Bella knew what that meant. She hated this time of the year; really hated it. It wasn’t that her job wasn’t hard enough the rest of the year, but the autumn always brought in a flood of new cases. Bella was a private investigator specialising in missing persons cases. For most PIs that means finding individuals that had skipped out on their rents, or deadbeat dad’s. Well, Bella tracked dead dads. There was no beat to it. She was usually hired by families or estates where the disappearance was, how shall we say, unusual. Most turned out to be standard foul play – love triangles and the like – but some, her bread and butter cases, involved vampires. She had already discovered three different “families” of the creatures in the three counties area, plus that one werewolf case, but Halloween just ramped things up. People though nothing about zombies, werewolves, and vamps on the streets. It made leads that much harder, plus they (the undead) usually did their “recruiting” among the unsuspecting party-goers of October.
Well, this year was going to be a doozy. She just didn’t know it yet.
Padre
Whistle
A whistle
A shrill sound upon the breeze
An incessant sound
That makes me ill at ease
Where does it come from?
Whatever might it mean?
Is it all just in my head?
Or is there something untoward
As yet by me unseen?
Padre
Upon A Stair (2)
Upon a stairway on a shadowy night
I chanced touch the railing making me recoil in fright
As an eerie chill filled my soul
Padre
Weekend Writing Prompt #210 – Eerie in 24 words
See also Upon A Stair from my Gothic Series
Wander Not In The Wood
Do not wander in the wood
For few from there return
The very trees there seem to move
Even when there is no breeze
Let your journey another path take
Let caution your planning seize
Do not wander in the wood
Do not its mysteries learn
And above all – do take care
To avoid the towering trees
Padre
Gateway Gothic
“That’s so weird,” Amber said as she did a slow spin taking in all of her surroundings.
“What’s weird? Where?” Tracy queried.
“Here – and this puddle’s what’s weird,” Amber replied.
“What are you going on about?”
“Just look at the refection in the puddle. The building in it isn’t anywhere near here.”
Tracy looked into the puddle and then looked around in the same intense manner Amber had.
“No! No way!” Tracy exclaimed.
The pair then knelt next to the puddle and peered in. There before them was a bustling market square with people in Victorian dress carrying out their business.
Tracy hesitantly placed her fingers into the shallow puddle that seemed no more than an inch deep but was able to sink her hand in to her elbow.
Jerking her arm rapidly from the puddle, she shook it and involuntarily shivered.
“No! This isn’t happening,” she said. “I could feel a breeze.”
Padre
Padre's Ramblings 