"They say a #phantom haunts this theatre. Are you sure Her Grace will be safe within these walls?"

"She has been wanting to see this performance for years. I don't think she'll let a spectre ruin this chance."

The vizier sighed. He'd tried to warn them.

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"They're holding the seance in the parlour, m'Lady. She has given strict instructions not to be disturbed."

She rolled her eyes. "Does my sister believe she can contact her son? The Knights do not believe in ghosts and spirits."

"She thinks she can. A mother's grief knows no bounds."

#vssfantasy

Hellish midnight
nearly forgotten dreads emerge
crashing the dam of tension,
banshee's spectral shrieks
haunt the sinful and malefic mortals
crossing liminal passage
of infernal catacombs
who shunned the deathly knells
sounding memento mori.
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She wasn't your typical #vampire. For one, she wore sweaters and jeans, For another, she often spent nights watching the moon from her front porch. Her 'wine' was already red, her skin always pale, but no one suspected a thing. They all thought she was eccentric, but harmless.

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Darkly luminous twilight
beguiling vampire
drunk on a delta of desires
wooing a naive belle
with his satanic splendor,
velvety cruelty oozes through
his sweetly venomous kisses,
eluding his bloodthirsty bite
is a fruitless pursuit.
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"There are #ghouls running around in the backyard."

"Don't mind them, dear. They get a bit restless this time of year. I'll just call the hunters and they'll take care of the problem."

He was amazed at her nonchalance. "They don't bother you?"

"I've lived here long enough. It's fine."
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" #Witchcraft is...the craft of witches. Pretty straightforward."

"And what's your definition of a #witch? Someone benevolent? Someone evil?" She shrugged. "Whatever your employers decide?"

"I'm not paid to understand philosophy, ma'am. I hope you understand."

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He looked at the bottle. "So, this #potion is supposed to be the answer to all my problems?"

"It transforms you into a whole new person! Drink it while holding the image in your mind, and voila!"

The thief smiled. "Well, that's mighty convenient."

"Good luck. Our business is over."

#vssfantasy

Sadistic sinners in lairs
conspiring humanity's demise,
carrion vultures circle
out of morbid curiosity,
spineless deceptive serpents
revel in the tears of the helpless,
ominous seances calmly
breaching quiet threshold
heralding doom.
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Creepy ravens roost
pecking at the potion
brewed with hemlock
an unholy energizer fuels witchcraft,
eerie poltergeists shriek
terrifying the quaking poltroons,
funereal squalls unearth
the forbidden sepulchers
something left behind.
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Eldritch eclipse
shadowing the islands,
stygian currents swell
spindrift bites cobwebbed debris,
deadly revenants emerge
from ghostly shipwrecks,
macabre maelstrom spins
entombing the crews,
lanterns flickering low
&siren's morendo
waving goodbyes
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"Everything's gone wrong. I swear, she put a #hex on me."

The wizard rolled his eyes. "It doesn't work like that. A hex works because the receiver BELIEVES in it. You give up your power to HER with your belief."

"I just have to not believe this is all her fault?"

"Yes, it's yours."

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"Don't witches have a #coven?"

"Sure, but did you expect us all to dance around a cauldron in the middle of the night, singing 'eye of toad and tongue of newt'?"

"Well...yeah?"

She laughed. "I mean, we *could* if you wanted, but the herbalists don't have those in stock."

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In an unholy instance
coven of vile witches
conspire to cast lethal hexes
upon people advocating morality,
sycophants&snollygosters
hail the nefarious archfiends
prepatrators of unforgivable sins,
voices of the vulnerable
go unheard in the abyss.

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On an #Island of Dreams, hers is just too much.

"Magic's the wrong #subject for girls," they #assert, laughing. "Why not try sewing?"

Years later she returns, bringing with her #bewitching power from the velvety darkness.

They shouldn't have laughed.

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"They say her beauty can #bewitch every man in the village, and some of the women too. She's not as innocent as she seems."

"She's only a baby. Why are you so jealous?"

"She's a Fae changeling! Why can't you see it?"

She rolled her eyes at the old biddy. Gods, what a crone.

#vssfantasy

Alluring aria of luring temptress
echoes within the damned island,
her fatal kiss seals depraved spirits fate
vindictive foxes devour their bloodied flesh,
mournful sable roses
lie across ruined cemetries
writing elegies in tandem
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"What's the difference between a #cemetery and a graveyard?"

"One is consecrated ground, the other is secular," she said. "In this case, this one is reserved for those poor souls who fit in neither, like fae and the like." The plots were adorned with flowers and cheerful lights.

#vssfantasy

The #graveyard seemed quiet by day. At night, it came alive, in a sense. The magic rained down on the stones and spirits rose as if from their beds. Death didn't stop these particular townsfolk from concluding their business.

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Malicious hurricane
arouses the graveyard evils,
spooky skeletons carry
rotting corpses in grim procession
summoning the starving ghouls,
every shadow whispers
the wails of the dead,
the last warm day ends
an aching uneasiness chills.

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