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July 8, 2019
Dark-Obscure Collection Entry # 4: The Nesuferati
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The Nesuferitu
Natural realm form type: visible
Type of Threat: physical damage, death
The Nesuferitu is the name giving to a species of man-bat creatures that populate remote rural areas of Eastern Europe, and some parts of North & South America.
These monstrous entities are believed to be the basis for vampire mythos. Whether they are capable of living forever is a matter of much debate, but what it’s known about them is that they are eight feet tall, have pure white skin, yellow eyes that...
July 5, 2019
Dark-Obscure Collection Entry #3: Xerox
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Xerox
Natural realm form type: original form unknown
Type of Threat: death
The Xerox is a doppelganger type of entity that stalks, steals from, and ultimately kills its victim to take his or hers place.
Once it has chosen its target, the entity spends some time spying on it from the shadows, to get a good sense of the victim’s personality and traits. It will then move on to steal everyday items belonging to the person. These are objects that usually end up with parts of the victim’s “anatomy...
July 2, 2019
Dark-Obscure Collection Entry #2: Skin Sirens
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Skin Sirens
Natural realm form type: visible, shapeshifting
Type of Threat: extreme physical damage, death
Skin sirens are deceiving predatory entities that usually target male humans. While their original form may differ, they normally take the shape of a physically attractive female human, pretending to be sexually interested in their preys.
The creatures have several abilities; like being able to “perceive” what their chose target desires in a sexual partner by studying their mannerism an...
July 1, 2019
Dark-Obscure Collection Entry # 1
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Bitters
Natural realm form type: semi-visible
Type of Threat: death
Bitters are diminutive flying creatures created by witches and sorcerers, with the intention of protecting their far-off hideouts. Because of their incredible tiny size, nobody knows the individual appearance of the beings, but it has been reported that they move on large groups of thousands and sometimes millions, making them look like what has been described as a “wasp-like herd”. They are also said to possess unbelievable...
The Dark-Obscure Collection Begins
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Do you know of the things that go bump in the night?
Within the extent of human understanding, an entity is anything that exists in an objective or conceptual reality.
In the fields of Horror Lore and Factual Horror, it’s any self-contained being of varying characteristics inside the realm of natural law, that’s capable of being or becoming a prey or a predator, victim or perpetrator, a watcher or the subject of interest of one. In this regard, the list of beings is vast and diverse with dis...
June 29, 2019
The Anthology Vault Paperback Version is LIVE on Amazon’s KDP
It’s alive!
My baby is available for purchase on paperback format now. Check it out:
Print Version of The Anthology Vault
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Dive into a new realm of fear inside The Anthology Vault; a collection of interconnected horror tales from the mind of RC Lanzmann. Follow a retired cop as he uncovers the supernatural secret behind an idyllic American town. Witness a cemetery watchman being drove to madness by the residents beneath Ecclestone graveyard. Discover the last fate of a serial killer hu...
June 11, 2019
How I Wrote a Full Novel Thanks to a Reddit Post
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Want to know a fun fact? By the time you finish reading this paragraph, one or two dozen aspiring/amateur writers from all over the world will have already google searched “How to write a book?” or some variation of that. Searching those exact words will get you around five billion results, with many articles using terms like simple steps, bestseller, self-publish, and that terrible word we all like to hear: easy.
This article is not about that. I won’t tell you how to write a book or how to...
May 23, 2019
HORROR LORE & HOW TO SURVIVE IT
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Horror…
The Oxford Dictionary defines the concept as “An intense feeling of fear, shock or disgust”. In the field of narrative fiction, it’s the genre whose main goal is to incite feelings related to dread, deeply related to the anticipating feeling before a fearful experience, also known as Terror. In spite of how many basic definitions had been given to the notion, every sentient being in the universe(s) can concede that horror, in all his forms and types, involves the action of generating...
