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Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses, keeping you from sleep.

It's time to face your darkest fears. This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome.

We have two tales for you this evening about the burden of immortality and the enduring power of love.

Our first story for the evening comes from Ed Vic.

Ed Vic is a clarion graduate and a founding member of both the late lamented flash site,

The Daily Cabal, and the Seattle-based

writing group Sound on Paper. He lives in Seattle with SF novelist Amy Thompson, also five

chickens, a cat, and a dog. Ed is fueled by megad doses of Dr. Pepper Zero.

Children of the Night,

join me for Ed Vicks,

Dead by Night,

a Tales to Terrify Original.

The Lorde, The He had grown sloppy. He had grown sloppy.

Obvious. After the fourth corpse, drained of blood, had been found at Holyoke

Retirement Village. Even Sergeant Reynolds had turned a blind eye to his officers carrying steaks and

holy water. The community was in an uproar. Relatives were frantic, and the caregivers went around in

twos or threes. So when the 1066 call came in one evening, we closed in, with an expectation of

far more than a simple prowler. Two squad cars, with lights and sirens, screeched up to the front

...