“Kind of an extreme reaction to not being invited to the party. Don’t you think?”

6. The Cemetery – D.E. Athkins

Oh, Deathkins. Your characters are some doozies, especially in this one where there were so many of them I can’t even remember who is who and I totally read this in this, the year of my herd 2018. Recently I was re-watching the He Man and She Ra movie while painting (Classy. Artist. Me.) and I noticed that everyone kept repeating their relationships to each other – “This is Angella, she’s my mother.” “Let’s save Glimmer’s mother, Queen Angella.” “I wonder what my former pupil, Skeletor, is up to.” “Hello, Skeletor, my former pupil.” “Suck it, Hordak, the teacher who abandoned me.” I may be paraphrasing in that last one, but it was annoying there and would be useful here. There are way too many people in The Cemetery. And Cyndi, the most memorable one, likes “to push people.” She’s rich and bitchy. Her name is perfect. She planned a Hallowe’en party in a cemetery – The cemetery – and then some dude makes the mistake of dying during it. So you could say Cyndi pushed him – put on sunglasses – to death. YEEEAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Okay, maybe it’s not really CSI: Miami quality, but, there’s a possibility that it is. Anyway, so, death, then some more death, and some supernatural stuff and I really thought that it was just going to be a murderous groundskeeper who is tired of those damn kids stomping around in his eroding hilltop cemetery during their oh-so-spooky parties but…it wasn’t.

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Finny never gets invited to Ozma’s parties in the cemetery. She doesn’t think he’s serious enough for hide and seek. Someday he will have his revenge.

Mixtape:

1. “Within the Wall of Tress” – Wolfmen of Mars

2. “Aldhissla” – Finntroll

3. “Lady Velvet” – Devil Electric

4. “Loss of Feeling of Loss” – Pinkish Black

5. “It’s Not Cranberry Sauce” – All of Them Witches

6. “Prisoners” – King Dude

7. “The Doom that Came to Marble Town” – Espectrostatic

8. “Kiss of the Broken Bottle” – Wolfmen of Mars

9. “The Number of the Beast” – Electric Six

10. “Archangel (Samhain cover)” – Beastmaker

11. “Bloody Revenge” – Terrortron

12. “Nocturnal Me” – Echo & the Bunnymen

13. “Living for the Grave” – Brass Hearse

14. “The Delirium of Negation” – Espectrostatic

15. “Once-Over” – Terrortron