by Rich, Mark
Monsters Ghost And Zombies III
Little Red Riding Hood In London
Monsters
Ghost
Zombies
Grindhouse Entertainment & Hit Factory Publishing
All Rights Reserved By James E Nance
© 2015
Little Red Riding Hood In London
1965 one dark night in the Black Mountains of Wales.
The sound of gunfire could be heard, breaking the silence of the calm winter night. The woods were illuminated by the light of the full moon.
“We have only a little more ways to go Robin. Good thing we wore red jackets, it's hunting season out here, The hunters should see are jackets if we come across them.
“Johnny! We should have waited until morning to walk up here. This is dangerous!”
The two villagers were on their way to Johnny's grandmother's house.
“My grandmother needs her medicine. That's the only reason I am coming up here, this late at night. She really needs this stuff Robin.”
Johnny looked at his long time girlfriend, with a look of love in his eyes.
“Plus my grannie, really likes you! She has told me on several occasions, we should get married.” Robin's face broke out into a large smile. When suddenly.
“What was that?” Robin started looking around the dark forest, her face strained with a look of fear. “I don't know it sounded like a wolf. It must be some wolf dogs out here or something.” Johnny stated as he grabbed Robin's hand. “Come on, my grandmother's house, is just around this corner.” After the two walked up the path, a few moments later.
“AAAAAH!” Robin screamed out. Johnny felt her snatched from him.
By the time his eyes adjusted to see what was happening, He began screaming in horror. A large hairy wolf like creature, was on top of her growling and biting into her neck and chest. Johnny ran to help her, when he heard someone behind him yell. “I say! Move out of the way chap!”
Johnny turned around to see who it was. Three hunters with their rifles drawn, were in the bushes, right behind him. Robin continued to scream, as the wild savage beast, mauled her. Johnny dived out of the way and then the three hunters, began firing at the wild beast. The flurry of bullets hit the creature, but they hit Robin as well.
The creature made a loud screeching noise and then ran off, into the dark woods. Robin lay on the ground, her body bloodied by the vicious attack.
Johnny lay over her dead body, crying. “It's a good thing for her young fellow!”
One of the hunters, patted Johnny on his back, as he tried to comfort him.
“If she would have lived through this. She would have a become a creature. Not the girl you know!”
50 years later in October.
“Can you believe it we are in England!” Two college age couples from Southern California, had come to London, as exchange students for 1 year.
“Sarah! I wish we could have enjoyed the city more, before you talked us into going into the wild!”
“Stop complaining Bill, We will be back in the city by night fall, I just want to take a few more pictures, of the Black Mountains of Wales. I have wanted to see this all my life!”
The two couples were Bill and Vonnie and Tracy and his girlfriend Sarah. They all had attended USC and were chosen to participate in a student exchange.
“Look Vonnie! A pub!” Bill rubbed his hands together.
“All this picture taking has made me thirsty!” Sarah stopped and looked around for a moment.
“Yeah I am with Bill, Sarah. I could use a drink!” Tracy chimed in.
“OK we can stop for little bit, but I want to take some more pictures, before we have to get back to the tour bus.” Sarah stated as she grabbed and squeezed Tracy's hand.Once they were inside the pub. “Howdy mates!” The four were greeted warmly, by the bartender. A middle aged women approached their table. They noticed right away she was their waitress. “My name is Beth. What will you youngsters like to have?”
“I have heard a lot about Brodie's on tap!” Bill questioned as he looked at his menu.
“Good choice! One of the best beers in the country!”
“I'll have that on tap as well!” Tracy stated as he set his menu down. All the others agreed to be served the same thing. While they waited on their drinks.
“Wow! Now that's a scary painting!” Sarah stated, she noticed a large oil painting, of what looked like little red robin hood of the old fairy tale. And a large werewolf like beast chasing her. “Yeah that is sort of spooky!” Tracy replied.
“Here is your drinks!” The waitress handed the couples their beers.
“What a strange painting to have in your pub?” Sarah asked the waitress.
“Ken! He is the expert on old wise tales around here.”
The waitress pointed to another middle aged gentleman playing darts.
“I guess you are not from around here?” The gentleman stopped playing darts and joined the couples, at their table. “We are exchange students from America! My name is Bill!” Bill stuck his hand out to shake the middle aged gentleman's hand.
“Glad to meet you my name is Ken!” The others at the table introduced themselves and then ordered another round. “There has been stories of werewolves around these parts since the 1960's. In fact that painting is from the 1960's.”
“Wow! How exciting!” Sarah stated as she sipped on another round of tap beer.
“I own this pub and I give tours of the countryside where that painting was painted.
American tourist love our tour of the countryside.”
“I would like to go on one of your tours!” Sarah responded, as she looked at Tracy for his approval. “We got to get back Sarah. The tour bus is going to leave at 5 and you know what the driver said. Don't be late.”
“My tours are in the morning. We have a cottage you can stay at, if you like, you can see the tour tomorrow morning.”
“Now wait a minute. I am ready to get back to the city.” Bill was upset at the thought of staying in the country any longer than needed.
After a lot of haggling back and forth. “OK Sarah! I can't believe you have talked me into staying all night here, in the boonies!” Tracy laughed. Bill shook his head as he looked at Vonnie, obviously agitated by their decision.
“How much are you talking about?”
“$50.00 dollars for the tour, and you stay at the cottage for free. It's our slow season.”
Sarah smiled “I am excited, Tracy this is so cool!”
Another man eating a burger at a table next to theirs, overheard their conversation.
“But Ken! You know there is going to be a full moon tonight!”
“Shut up Henry! And mind your own business!”
After they finished their drinks they followed Ken out of the pub to his waiting white van. “What was that all about?” Ken blurted out at no one in particular.
“Don't mind him. Some of the people around here still believe in that werewolves nonsense!” The four of them piled into Ken's van and rode into the rugged brush.
As they rode down the country path they noticed right away wooden poles on the side of the road with weird writings on them. “What's those?” Sarah asked as she took pictures.
“More of the locals superstitions!” They waited for Ken to say more but he changed the subject. Thirty minutes later they were pulling up on a small cottage.
“My house is just few clicks up the way.” Ken got out of the van with a ring full of keys. “The house is locked from the outside?” Bill questioned Ken, once he noticed the large padlock on the house's front door. “We have had a lot of problems with squatters and vandalism.” Ken replied. But as Bill
looked around he couldn't imagine anyone else living out there. “Beth made you something for dinner! I'll get it out of the back of the van. After handing them a few brown bags of burgers and fries.
“I'll see you around 9 am for breakfast!” Once all four were in the cottage Ken closed the door behind them. “This isn't too bad!” Sarah tried to cheer the rest of them up.
“We have a flat in the City and you have us stuck here in this dump.”
Calm down Bill. At least we have our own room here. Maybe we can catch up!”
Vonnie began to kiss on Bill and the affection calmed him down.
“Alright lets make the best of it. Wheres my hamburger?”
The four ate and talked about how much fun they were having for the rest of the night.
Right before they were about to retire for the evening.
“Hey Guys! Look what I found in my room!” Vonnie came out of one of the back bedrooms with a wallet and a set of car keys. “They must have left them here!”
“Will give them to Ken in the morning!” Sarah stated as she took the keys from Vonnie and placed them on a table in the front room.
“I was looking for some firewood, but I couldn't find any!” Bill was standing next to the large fireplace in the living room of the cottage.
“Don't worry about it. It's not that cold anyway!” Tracy replied as he led Sarah into their bedroom. “Goodnight! You two!” Tracy shut the door with a smile.
A little after midnight. Vonnie Jumped up from a deep sleep.
“Did you hear that Bill? It sounded like a wolf howling, Bill!”
She looked down at her boyfriend and he was sound asleep. She put her shoes on and then walked to the bedroom window to look outside. She saw what looked like a tall hairy creature run by the window. In the darkness of the night it looked like a blur.
“AAAAH!” Vonnie began screaming at the top of her lungs. “I saw it, it's out there!”
Vonnie ran back to the bed, Bill had woke up, startled by Vonnie's frantic screaming.
“What's wrong with you girl.” It took a moment before she could respond.
“I saw it Bill. What are we going to do? We have to get out of here!”
The bedroom door flew open. “What in the world is going on in here?”
Tracy barged into the room with Sarah right behind him.
“Vonnie saw some kind of animal outside and it has her all freaked out!”
Bill attempted to downplay the incident as he looked out of the old world cottage's bedroom window. “I don't see anything! It was probably just a wild dog!”
“No it wasn't Bill! It was a...a Monster!” Bill and the others started laughing.
“Baby I think you have had too many of those Brodie's on tap!”
Before Vonnie could respond, the sound of a wolf howling could be heard by all four of them. “Come on Tracy let's go outside and take a look around!” He and Tracy ran to the front room door. “What the ?????” He twisted the doorknob and pulled on the door as hard as he could. “That son of a !” Locked us in here!” Bill continued to to pull on the door. “You have got be kidding!” Tracy replied, before he ran to the front room window and tried to pull it open. “There locked!” Both of the girls looked on, obviously frightened by their situation.
“This must be some kind of joke!”
Sarah stated nervously, as she too tried to open one of the windows. Then they heard the loud howling sound again. “We have got to get out of here!” Vonnie yelled out, beginning to cry. Boom! Boom! Boom! The sound of someone beating on the door could be heard. “Who is that?”
“I don't know! Vonnie it's too dark outside to see!” Bill tried to see what was out there from the door's peephole. “What are we going to do?” Vonnie ran over to the fireplace and sat down, frightened out of her mind. “At least we are safe inside, we can wait until in the morning, to figure a way on how to get out of here!” Bill assured them.
“OK!” Vonnie seemed to be calming down. The sound of someone beating on the door had stopped. And for a brief moment there was complete silence. Sarah walked towards where Vonnie was sitting near the fireplace. When she saw a hairy hand appear from fireplace chimney. It grabbed Vonnie by her throat and the drug her through the chimney. “AAAAAH!” Sarah began screaming hysterically at the sight of Vonnie yelling and kicking as she was drug up the chimney. “It can get in here!” Tracy ran with Sarah behind him, Bill stood staring at the blood stained fireplace, crying.
“Come on Bill! There is nothing we can do about her, she is gone!” Tracy grabbed Bill by his arm and drug him, into one of the bedrooms.
They could hear Vonnie screaming as the vicious beast attacked her and then after one horrifying scream, there was nothing but silence.
“It got her!Poor Vonnie!”
Sarah was crying and shaking, balled up in a corner. Tracy grabbed a chair and threw it at the bedroom's window. “Bars! There is no way out of here!”
“Maybe it will leave us alone, now that it got Vonnie!” Bill gave her a mean look.
Boom! Boom! Boom! The creature was back banging on the bedroom's door.
The three of them started to scurry around the large master bedroom. Looking for a way out. “Look! Tracy that looks like a latch!” Bill pointed to a metal ring protruding from the floor. Tracy pulled on it and a trapdoor opened up. “Hurry lets go!”
The creatures hairy arm had broken through the wood door. They could see the muscular hairy arm and the razor sharp claws of the growling creature.
“What in the world is that?” Bill was the last one to climb down the trapdoor. The creature had broken through the door and was on hot pursuit behind them. The door led to a tunnel that led outside the house. Once they were in the dark forest, panic set in.
“Its so dark out here! How are we ever going to make it back to the village! That thing is going to get us!” Sarah words echoed into the dark wooded forest. The only light was that of the full moon. The three ran as fast as they could, through the trees and thick shrubs. “That looks like some headlights!” Bill yelled out with a look of relief.
“We found the road! Hey! Help us Hey!” Bill began waving his hands frantically, trying to stop the driver of the oncoming vehicle. As the van approached, all three noticed it was Ken's white van. “You mother #$$%! You locked us in there! With that thing!”
Bill yelled at the closed driver side window, as the van pulled up and stopped.
“How did you get out?” Ken asked calmly.
“Please help us. That thing, it got my friend Vonnie and it's still out there!”
Sarah pleaded, Ken was with Beth the waitress from the pub.
“You are going to have to go back into those woods. He wont come on the path!”
“What in the hell are you talking about?” Tracy questioned, Beth, Ken's wife. Who was speaking from the passenger side of the van, with her window rolled down.
“We have to feed that thing, so it will leave us alone, on nights like this. And it wont come on this trail because it's protected!” Ken joined in.
“The writing on those wood planks!” Ken pointed at the wood poles lining the road.
“That's the magic that can keep the werewolf away. We have those up to protect this trail at night. And like my wife said, he will never come here, so y'all have to go back into the woods! Now!” Ken pulled out a pistol.
“You don't scare me old man!” Bill lunged at the gun, the two tussled for a moment and then the pistol fired. Tracy ran over to Bill, he lay on the ground shot in his leg.
“Now I told you I wasn't bullsh!$ting! Get your a$$ back into those woods now!”
Ken and Beth both got out of the van. “Now I have tried to be decent about this, I could easily shoot ya and then feed you to him. But he likes to stalk his prey!”
Ken and his wife laughed. Tracy helped Bill to his feet.
“Come on, there has got to be some way out of this!”
Sarah ran as fast as she could and tackled Ken. He dropp
ed his pistol. Tracy ran to grab it and so did Beth, the two fought over the pistol until, Tracy tripped and he and Beth both fell off the trail behind the poles, with the weird handwritten. The howl of the werewolf startled the others, near the van. “Beth No!” Ken screamed, as he heard Beth cry out in agony. Tracy could be heard screaming as well. Ken jumped to his feet and ran into the dark bush, were all the sounds were coming from. For a moment all that could be heard, was the rustling of the bushes and and Ken yelling out for his wife. And then a another terrifying growl. Moments later Ken's screams of agony could be heard, throughout the forest. “Tracy!” Sarah hollered out.
“Tracy! Are you there!” Bill yelled as well as he limped towards, the side of the road Tracy had fell into. “Tracy!” Bill yelled out one last time.
The bushes near the road shook and then parted. Both Bill and Sarah stood trembling in fear, awaiting what was going to come out of the bushes. And then suddenly Tracy's face appeared. “He got me! He.... He...” Bill ran up to help him, when he suddenly felt a sharp burning sensation on his arm. “Aaah!” It was dark but Bill could still make out the blood coming from his arm. “Help me ! Please...!” Tracy's face was bleeding and badly mangled. Then the 7 foot werewolf, appeared behind him and snatched Tracy away.
“Tracy! Nooo! Tracy!” Sarah began crying, she could still hear Tracy screams of pain from a distance. Bill ran back onto the road.
“Come on Sarah!There is nothing we can do. We have to get to a safe place, lets go!” Sarah with her face wet from crying, helped Bill back into the van and then they sped off.
Sarah was still crying. “That thing got Tracy!” She began to sob, as she sped down the dark country road. “It got Vonnie too! But at least were safe!”
Bill grimaced from the gunshot wound and the deep cut on his arm.
“Are you OK?” Bill nodded.
“I'll make it!” After a few moments of driving, bill began to vomit and convulse.
“What's wrong?” Bill began groaning and shaking uncontrollably. Sarah pulled the van over and got out, by the time she walked around to the passenger side, where Bill was sitting. The door was open and Bill was gone.
