Author Archive: ZakNewman

#27 Doormiga

Doormiga is a living portal with the power to send you anywhere you might want to go.  Stationary herself, she is jealous of those with the freedom to travel.  Bring her a pretty bobble and you might just end up where you wanted to go.

#24 The Orb Master

Under the guise of an aging performer, the Orb Master does three shows an evening in a run down part of town in an aging theater.  However, his true purpose is to keep the darkness at bay.  A mystic of unknown power, he battles the things that live in the shadows of the city.

#23 Slurgus the all Consuming

Slurgus is a giant tongue.  He lurks in the dark, dank places deep beneath cities, feeding on the old and forgotten knowing that eventually everything will be forgotten and he will feed.

#14 Seripidy

Seripidy is the pet, and suspected familiar of Delilah Dimplethorn, the new secretary at the office of Herbert Salazar, Private Eye.  It seems that Seripidy’s single eye is capable of seeing much more than her owner, and she often comes in handy in many investigations.

#9 The Cyeclori

The Cyeclori are yet another depraved imagining of the one time horror writer Salvadore Price.  As he delves deeper into the black pit of his mind, the horrors he finds become even more terrible.  The Cyeclori are an unending army of ghoulish freaks whose only want is that of their imaginer.  They will stop at nothing to deliver it to him.

#6 Salazar

Once a private detective, Herbert “Herb” Salazar, was murdered while investigating a mysterious cult.  The victim of a hellish ceremony, Salazar was left to wander the world without a physical form, though somehow connected to his old ring.   Through his ring, he can take on a solid, though invisible form for a short amount of time.

#5 Papa

This creature lives in the basement of Salvatore Price.  After his return to fame, the writer took to collecting exotic things, most of which came from the depraved recesses of his own twisted imagination.  Papa is no exception, and he is very protective of his little baby, Muk Muk (see yesterday’s post).  Also, keep your whole self away from his mouth.

#4 Baby Muk Muk

There’s not much more to be said than, here is Baby Muk Muk.  Please keep your fingers away from his mouth.

#3 Delilah Dimplethorn

Because of her involvement with the paranormal, some have come to believe that Delilah Dimplethorn is a witch.  While that’s debatable, it is widely agreed upon that she is certainly bewitching.  And yes, her hair is naturally blue.

#2 Edwin Whipple

Edwin Whipple never understood why the land lady made him evict the tenants who skipped out on their rent.  This Richard Greene creeped him out especially.  The man that answered the door looked awful, especially his infected left eye.  When Whipple gave him the bad news the man became violent and whatever was afflicting him took hold in the repair man’s flesh.  The disease worked fast.  The last thing he remembered was Greene telling him he didn’t have to die, then holding a toad that seemed to be affected by the same sickness up to his mouth.

#1 Salvadore Price

Under the pen name Salvadore Price, Richard Greene wrote several horror novels, a few of them were published.  Very few of them made it big.  When the royalty checks stopped coming in, Greene lost his home, what little contact he still kept with his family and finally his health.  He was a man that had hit rock bottom.  The doctors said they didn’t know what was afflicting him and that he probably didn’t have long to live.  But he knew better.  In the darkness of his dingy apartment, his disease was speaking to him.  All diseases need a carrier, a way to spread, and it had chosen him.

Suddenly, Greene’s life was turning around.  His wealth started coming back, then blossomed.  He was a new item in the tabloid eye.  There was certainly something different about him, but no one could place it.  The only thing new, other than his swagger, was the deep red irritation in his left eye.