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Sally Edwards didn't have many friends at Gravendale High School. Whenever Sally tried out for sports she would be picked on by her classmates because she was a tomboy. Sally had buck teeth and matted hair and slurred her speech. She also wore the same clothes to school every day. Sally was poor and was being raised by her alcoholic grandfather who didn't have long to live, maybe weeks at best. When her classmates got wind of the passing of her grandfather the following week they started picking on her pretty hard.

The Dalton family was excited to be moving from the big city in the United States to a small town in another country. They wanted to escape their noisy city life. The small town of Breckonridge, where the Dalton family was about to call home, had been shattered just hours before their plane landed. The Breckonridge Nuclear Power Plant had developed a small crack in one of the reactors. The public warning system was down, so the town of Breckenridge was completely unaware. Radiation had spread throughout the town, infecting half the population....

John Edwards was an avid collector of antiques. He would travel all over the United States to find unique antiques and anything else that most collectors would pass on. John was happy with his collections but he was looking for something his friends would say find intriguing. John found himself traveling through a little town called Pleasantville. The town was so small you could throw a rock from one end of the town to the other. John just about missed the town and the rare antique he had been waiting to add to his collection for so long.

Michael was the youngest in his family - just eight years old - and loved to watch his favorite TV show called Dark Shadows. Michael's older brother David and his sister Susan would constantly sneak up while Michael was watching Dark Shadows in the dark and scare him. Even though his brother and sister did a good job scaring him, what really scared Michael the most was the vampire Barnabas Collins.

Billy and Susan loved to hear their father read stories to them every night at bedtime. Susan told her brother, Billy, that the stories were for little kids. Susan said, "Billy I love dad, but I wish he would read scary stories to us instead of stories like Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland. They were okay when we were younger, but we are so much older now." "I feel the same way. I like it when mother and father go out to dinner at night so we can watch scary movies together," replied Billy.

During the late 1800's Tom Sanderson's farm was a great place for fishing. Tom was a very friendly man that liked to give tours in his cave to anyone that fished or hunted on his farm. But Tom's kindness would eventually do him in. One day, like any other day, Tom approached two men that were drinking and fishing in his pond. Tom asked the men, "Would you like to take a tour in my cave just over the hill?" The two men knew Tom was loaded and heard that he kept his money in his overalls.

Sit back, turn the lights down low, and get ready for the scare of your life, with nine bloodcurdling short stories from 31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead, written by Drac Von Stoller. "Born a Serial Killer", "Castle Drac Von Stoller", "The Seance", "What if the Devil Created Earth", "Wood Chipper", "The Haunted Camera","The Ghosts of Summerville Plantation", "Planchette", and "The Severed Hand" will have your hair standing on end!

Off in the distance stood a dark desolate castle in northwestern Ireland, full of mystery and the macabre. It was known as Castle Drac Von Stoller. Anyone that dared to talk ill of the castle would later come up missing without a trace. Costume parties were held at the castle where ballroom dancing would take place. Legend has it that Count Drac Von Stoller, who the castle was named after, impaled the great wizard Estavan.

Just beyond the hills of Eastondale stood an old dilapidated mansion that was built in the 1860's. Legend has it that a railroad ran near the old mansion and there was a gang of outlaws that had held up the train and stolen $250,000 worth of gold and hid it in the mansion. But before any of the outlaws had a chance to tell where the gold was hidden they were ambushed inside the mansion by U.S. Marshals and only two of the brothers of one of the gangs survived. They would not tell where they hid the gold so both brothers were hanged and to this day no one knows where the gold was hidden.

Even though Damien's life was the envy of his friends, Damien was dying inside because of the abuse from his father. Damien's love for his father quickly grew into hatred. Whenever Damien would lay his weak body down for the night, he would dream of putting his father into the wood chipper, but Damien's anger hadn't quite reached that point yet of going through with his dream, but it sure was in the back of his mind.

When George found out that he was the sole heir to a castle in England, he jumped at the chance to complete his novel in such an intriguing location. Shortly after he and his family moved in, strange things began to happen. Black magic, ancient evil, and unimaginable horrors lurked inside the castle walls.

Delbert Gray was an amateur photographer with a hunger for fame. The camera Delbert used was a cheap Kodak Instamatic. You can see why Delbert dreamed of owning a Nikon like his rich friend Michael. Michael would let his friend Delbert develop his pictures in his darkroom while he was developing his own. Delbert really envied Michael's photographs and would often close his eyes and day dream about being a famous photographer some day. Delbert was only 15 years old.

The Summerville Plantation was full of joy and happiness until one day when little Billy Edwards was found dead in the attic. Everyone that resides in the Plantation was questioned about poor little Billy Edwards' death, but no one seemed too eager to talk about his death. The groundskeeper claimed there was a ghost in the attic that killed Billy Edwards with an axe. Billy's father, Jim, questioned Sam Tucker the grounds keeper about his son's death. Sam insisted a ghost killed his son.

Karen Viselli and John Deadman were curious about the Legend of the Talbot family's misfortune surrounding the game Planchette that became a family tradition on stormy nights. But their family tradition was about to take a tragic turn for the worse that would cause each family member to have to pay with their own lives for conjuring up a demonic presence. Karen and John were both determined to find the Planchette game that was used at the Talbot's Mansion but no one has ever been able to find where the game may have been hidden all of those years.

Drac Von Stoller brings together 40 blood-dripping tales of terror read by Ted Brooks to give the listener nightmares with such tales of ghosts, a vanishing hitchhiker, voodoo, urban legends, scary clowns, hangings, castles, and many more. Drac Von Stoller is already on the best sellers list on Audible. Drac Von Stoller has brought four of these audiobooks to film: Bloody Mary, The Clown Statue, The Vanishing Hitchhiker, and No More Mr. Nice Guy that are available on Amazon Video.

Silly senatorial satire and plenty of pundit parody. Written a few days into the government shut down of 2013. Pokes fun at all 100 Senators at the time. Although the house probably should have been lambasted as well, this shines light on the absurdity that is our government and how it does NOT work sometimes...I still really do love America really I do!

Matt Cooper's back...somewhat. That is, his son and grandson open the story at Matt's graveside, paying their respects to the legendary detective. It's now 2012 and Matt's been dead for ten years. His son, Clay and grandson, Elliott now run Cooper Investigations and they're hot on a double murder case.

Sam Jackson had over a thousand acres of tobacco that brought in so much money it made him the richest farmer in a town called Painville. Sam never had to worry about money for many years, but Sam's money making machine was about to run dry. Sam's ego and money got the best of him one day. Sam was drinking with some of the local farmer's down at the local tavern. Sam pulled out his wallet and started counting thousand dollar bills on the table in front of them.

It was their love for sailing that brought Jack and Karen Billings together. Anytime they had free time, they could be found aboard their most prized possession, the Marlow Explorer. "Why don't we throw a Halloween party?" Jack volunteered. "The weather looks perfect for sailing, and it'd be a great way to get all our friends back together." Karen smiled at the thought, remembering the parties from their younger days. "That's a great idea," she replied.

Susie Jackson loved playing dress up in her deceased Aunt Sarah's attic in front of the antique mirror. Susie's father inherited her sister Sarah's Victorian home after her disappearance. Susie always thought her Aunt Sarah was a school teacher. Sarah had no idea that her Aunt practiced Black Magic in the attic. Legend has it that the Sarah bought an antique mirror from a Witch. The Witch told Sarah the mirror has powers of evil. This excited Sarah because she too was a practicing Witch.