Showing posts with label Vampire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vampire. Show all posts

Sunday, January 22, 2012

The Good Husband by Evelyn E. Smith

Ellen marries John, a man that seemed stuffy to her until she got older. As he begins to come home later and later she becomes suspicious, but does not want to nag him. She decides to follow him to work one morning and follows him to the family plot. As a vampire, John sleeps there during the day. At least he was not carrying on with another woman she thinks.

Clever and witty short.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

The Curse of Hooligan's Bar by Charles E. Fritch

The narrator sits alone at Hooligan's bar on New Year's Eve and orders Martinis. Hooligan gives him a martini "on the house," so he doesn't complain about the drink missing an olive. When the clock strikes twelve and the celebration begins around him, the narrator spots a tiny leprechaun vampire emerge form the cuckoo clock. The narrator, down on his luck, strikes a deal with the his new friend where they will both make it in showbiz. As he goes to tell Hooligan, the bartender stabs the tiny vampire through the heart with a toothpick, thinking he was an olive with his red hair and green get-up.

Pretty good little story. Reads like a long joke with a pretty good punch line at the end.