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Brief synopses of the chilling tales from the anthology Night Gypsy: Journey into Darkness

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Night Gypsy: Journey into Darkness

Synopses

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Just Desserts – Millie, a dutiful housewife, finds a way to serve up revenge on her philanderinghusband and making a dream come true in one cold dish.

Apt. 201 (Venganza) – Juan Cisneros is being terrorized by his thuggish upstairs neighbor. Afternot receiving help from the apartment managers and the police, he decides to turn the tables andpushes his neighbor to the brink of insanity. Venganza is sweet indeed.

Date From Hell (Touched by Angel) – A serial killer gives new meaning to “reach out and touchsomeone”. His murderous plan for his date who he met online takes a shocking turn.

Lorelei’s Wish – Lorelei finds out why sometimes the things or people we want the most, are whatand who we need the least when she seeks the help of a seer to claim her heart’s desire.

Love Bites – An office fling culminates is someone being bitten by something other than the lovebug.

The Sound of a Boy Crying – A young man fresh on his own finds out the terrifying reason for thesound of a childcrying in his neighboring apartment.

Family – Set in the early 1970's, "Family" starts with a teenage boy named Jasper escaping his alco-holic mother and mentally imbalanced father after his brother is killed in Vietnam. He encounters aseductive and murderous cult leader who may actually be the Devil and tempts Jasper with theboy's greatest desire—a "family" that loves him.

A Thing at the Edge – During breakfast, Angie shows her mother Isabeau the "kiss" she receivedfrom the thing at the edge of the yard. The kiss has bitten off most of one of her fingers. With herhusband Roger away on a business trip, Isabeau must fight demonic forces on her own. What willRoger find has become of his family when he returns?

Shadow of the Moon – Emma is an abused girlfriend who finds help from an unexpectedsource—one of the children of the night.

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The Milepost Motel –Reverend Bob Mellor returns to the scene of his crime and finds retributionof biblical proportions waits.

2109 –A conflicted priest who has doubts about eternal life after death, agrees to have his body putin a cryogenics tank and is brought back to life after 100 years. When he wakes up and finds out whatwill keep him alive forever, he realizes his eternity will be Hell on Earth instead of Utopia.

Fair’s Fair –When Bella finds out the truth about the murder of her little brother years before, shesets out to even the score.

Strangely Calm and Satisfied – On a hot and sweaty summers day, Maria pauses her work towatch her husband from the balcony chopping wood. They just moved to the countryside and theirstrained marriage is undergoing a revival. Her thoughts run into wild places as her husband set upthe chunks of wood one by one and lets the axe drop. But from up in the distance, a car approach-es, threatening the peace and quiet of their domain. Whoever the visitor is, he needs to be dealtwith, quickly...

With the Strength of Her Conviction – An elderly widow, Betty, lives on a quiet farm in theflatlands of north-western Holland. Her farm is bought by a young couple from that start turning itinto a modern country house for them to escape the bustle of the city. Slowly, Betty witnesses thefarm she labored on with her late husband being torn apart and filled with cold and fashionabledesign. When, one rainy night, she cannot take it anymore, she decides to take her farm back for herand her husband.

Like a Dog –A reluctant husband and father returns home late one evening, sick and getting sicker.As he recalls the events that have led him to this point in his life, he realizes what his illness is doingto him while coming to terms with what his family means to him.

Fine Red Print –Molly Ogden gives a riveting account of what happened when her home outpostwas overrun by the living dead. And why she rescued two others but only arrived with one.

Ricochet – “You can eat, you can drink, you can dance,” said the barkeep. “Our songs are three fora dime, and all you need for a good time. Come.” These words are more incantation than invitation,as a young couple soon finds out. Ricochet is a place where everybody knows your name. . . andmuch more.

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Eric J. Guignard

Something in the Strawberry Fields – when a body is found by workers of a strawberry field, somebelieve it’s the work of the monstrous mythic creature El Chupacabra. However, one of them soonfinds far more evil forces are at work.