“It was dark, and Stormy Knight…” Rejected opening lines for my new horror novel
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
“AAAAHHH! My eyes are up here. AAAAHHH!”
With my second YA and first MG written, I find myself with some time to write a horror novel. Back in the day, I published spooky little stories everywhere from Weird Tales to the Notre Dame Review but, uh, that was a while ago. Let’s just say there was some rust to scrape off. Herewith, the rejected opening lines for my new horror novel:
It was dark, and Stormy Knight moved cautiously. He’d been burned before, and bumped, besides.
“Oh, crap: A monster!”
The McHenry’s lived in a post-war, pre-exorcism apartment, just off the park.
There are bad days, and then there are bad days involving Cthulhu.
In all of nature, there is no animal more ravenous than the shrew, and no rodent larger than the capybara. That is why they should never have been allowed to mate.