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    The Lust for Blood
    The Lust for Blood
    The Lust for Blood
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    The Lust for Blood

    By Charmain Marie Mitchell

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    Contents:

    A Passion for Death - Never published before. A new twist on an old tale.

    Beecham Manor - Never published before. A ghostly tale from Cornwall.

    Sometimes Sacrifices need to be made - Previously published story

    Review:
    By Diogenes
    This is a very short tale, but nicely put together. It shows how the craving for fame can unbalance the impressionable mind.

    The Stalker – Previously published story.

    Review:
    By Angel Marie Jobe
    I really liked it the way the drama and suspense keep going and going it was one of the coolest books I've read in a long time

    By Karen Massari
    This piece did not come across as a short story, it was more like a bold painting. My heart is still racing from reading it.

    Punishment Time – Previously published story.

    Review:
    By Ethel Barkley
    Courious insight into the mind ! Abuse at any level can have deep seated and lasting consequeses. Punishment Time delves into the hatred that can result from such action. All should read as I did after downloading from Amazon.com to my Kindle Fire

    Scorned – Never published before. A tale about when love goes wrong.

    The Vampire Requiem – Previously published story.

    Review:
    By Robin E Liston
    When 252 year old Edward Manning falls in love with Maria, a beautiful young lady, he decides that he can't live without her, and plans to tell her that he's a vampire. If his love is rejected, Edward will end his long, lonely life. How will she react? Will she choose to spend an eternity with him, or reject him? But, as fate would have it, their lives are intertwined in an unexpected way.
    This short story by Charmain, allows us a brief look into the life of a modern day vampire. When Edward finally decides to reveal himself to Maria, and shows her the "face of a true vampire," her reaction causes an event that will catch you by surprise.
    I look forward to reading more stories by Charmain Mitchell.
    The Rape of Suzy J – Never published before. Chilling tale of rape and murder.

    Cyber Scream – Never published before. A story about misplaced jealousy.

    Tudor Witch (Perpetual Hell) – Previously published story.
    Review:
    By Lord D. M. Prosser (UK
    Let me say straight away that Charmain Mitchell is an expert at description. By the time I'd heard how Kezziah looked I had no problem in visualising her.By the time I'd finished the story and had read the description of what acts she had to perform I wasn't sure I'd ever sleep again.
    This book 'Perpetual Hell' manages in it's few short pages to cram in more than many full novels do but believe me the heroine is not someone you'll cheer for. Despite the great love she's meant to hold all I could remember was that her smile didn't reach the eyes.
    I'm certainly not sure I'd want a youngster reading this but no doubt they've all heard worse at hallowen. I am sure though that most young adults will enjoy the style of this young writer and the fifteen minutes of pure hell the reading gives them.

    The Man in the Mirror – Never published before. Tale of a fragmented mind.

    Food for Thought – Never published before. A tasty tale of fear.

    The Beings – Never published before. A story of a blood lust that will consume the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharmain Marie Mitchell
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301756773
    The Lust for Blood
    Author

    Charmain Marie Mitchell

    Hi, I'm Charmain Marie Mitchell, I'm 40 years old, and live on the south coast of England. I have very many years of experience in writing articles, personal projects, and ghostwriting projects. Creative writing is my passion, I feel that nothing in the world can compare to a well written creative extract of writing. Words can inspire people, make them laugh, make them cry, make them feel wonder and excitement. How wonderful is it to know that you have caused such emotions and that you will live forever in your own words! If you would like to follow my blog the address is http://CharmainMitchell@blog.co.uk I really hope you enjoy my stories, and I hope that you will offer some feeback and reviews (good or bad). Bye for now, Charmain.

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      The Lust for Blood - Charmain Marie Mitchell

      The Lust for Blood

      ©Copyright Charmain Marie Mitchell 2013

      Smashwords Edition

      ‘The lust for Blood’ is the property of Charmain Marie Mitchell and cannot be reproduced, copied, distributed, shared, or sold without the prior knowledge and permission of the author.

      Publisher: CMMpublishing, Petersfield, UK, GU32 3NF

      First published in the UK, US, & worldwide 2013

      Edition one

      ISBN-13:

      978-1491281864

      About the author

      Having run a successful Garden Centre then a Floristry Business, Charmain Mitchell never really had time to concentrate on her passion for writing.

      Throughout her life, Charmain has wanted to become an author, but family and business commitments stood in the way and her writing consisted of a few short stories on the rare occasion that she had time to write them.

      In late 2012 a freak accident finally allowed time for Charmain to indulge in her passion for writing. She says of this "Then a few weeks ago I fell over whilst trying to catch chickens and ended up breaking my ankle! Quite a comical way to break your ankle - I know; especially when I have kept horses for the majority of my life and have never yet broken any bones where they are concerned!

      Suddenly I had six clear weeks in which I wouldn't be able to move very well? Help! How was I going to cope with doing zilch for that long? Then I thought maybe I should do a bit of writing, and that is what I did, and the strange thing is, is that I haven't been able to stop since!"

      She says of her writing

      "I love writing, it is truly my passion!  I love the way that through words I can make people think and feel differently, feel passion, sometimes pain, and get totally lost in my words.  I love the fact that a brilliant writer will live forever, and will in some way influence generations to come.  Is it not marvelous that we can still look back to writing from over two thousand years ago and believe in it and still learn from it?

      The human imagination is a wondrous thing, it creates and then brings to life stories on a screen, and sometimes we believe in these stories so much that they become our passion.  I'm talking about for instance: the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Star wars etc...  I think we actually forget sometimes that all of these stories were started with a simple idea on a piece of paper, and they grew to be something that some of us forget started from the author's imagination".

      Charmain Mitchell lives in a semi-rural village on the south coast of the UK with her 4 children, husband, 2 cats, and countless chickens.

      A note from the author

      Hi and thank you for buying ‘The Lust for Blood’ and I hope you enjoy the grisly tales that I’ve concocted for you? All of the stories have as the name suggests the common theme of ‘The Lust for Blood’, and mainly highlights the complexities of the human mind (with one or two supernatural exceptions). After all, there’s nothing so complicated as a human being and nothing so horrific – enjoy!

      The Lust for Blood

      By Charmain Marie Mitchell

      Contents

      A Passion for Death

      Beecham Manor

      Sometimes Sacrifices need to be made

      The Stalker

      Punishment Time

      Scorned

      The Vampire Requiem

      The Rape of Suzy J

      Cyber Scream

      Tudor Witch

      The Man in the Mirror

      Food for Thought

      The Beings

      A Passion for Death

      Nicola read her horoscope and sighed! Not one mention of love, or the hope of it! Although she didn’t know why she bothered looking really, because even if her horoscope did shout out ‘Great love on the way for Leo’s!’ the words never ran true, and she had never yet bumped into her ‘great love’.

      For some reason she was drawn to wanting to know the future, if it wasn’t horoscopes then it was tarot cards, palmistry, or medium’s, and sometimes even witch craft! She loved everything to do with the supernatural, and had hundreds of books on the art of fortune telling, spells, and Wicca, but nothing she did seemed to get her the one thing she desired - someone she could love and who would love her just has much in return.

      She didn’t understand why she found it so difficult to attract male attention. She wasn’t ugly and although she wasn’t gorgeous either, she knew she didn’t look bad. She always termed herself as average. She had an average face with no huge or ugly features, but then again no beautiful features either. She had average mousy brown hair, which was cut into an average shoulder length bob. An average figure, nothing to write home about; but then again nothing to complain about either. Nicola was an average person, and she admitted to herself that this was her downfall - she just did not stand out from the crowd! She blended in so much that no one saw or noticed her, and no one can find attractive, what cannot be see.

      Nicola had tried every possible means to try and look different, and had even had her hair colored platinum blonde-haired person at one point! She did not however succeed in getting herself noticed, but she did succeed in making herself feel very uncomfortable, and had at the time, taken to wearing a woolly hat on her head every time she popped to the shops. Finally, after two weeks of walking around in the middle of an unexpected hot English summer with what looked like a tea cozy stuck atop of her head, she decided to return to her average mousy brown colour.

      Having been an only child of an old-fashioned couple whom had unexpectedly had a child in their late forties, both being dead for many years, Nicola at forty-five years old was alone in the world, with just her job at the local library to keep her company. It was a combination of all of these factors that led Nicola into the world of the supernatural, and ultimately into the performing of spells, love potions, and minor black magic.

      Nicola’s hobby became a passion and ultimately after a while her passion turned into an obsession. Nicola scoured bookshops and online stores in pursuit of better and more daring black magic. She would find love; she decided, even if it killed her, or condemned her to hell in the process!

      It was because of this obsessive pursuit that Nicola came across a book on EBay called ‘My Secret Spells’. A first print book, written in the late eighteen hundreds, Nicola was ecstatic and knew instantly that she must have this rare artifact. Deciding that she must have the book, Nicola recklessly made bids on the book, even when the total figure reached very many thousands, and nearly all of her savings! She did not care! The spell book she knew was the key to unlocking the love that lay dormant deep within her heart.

      The day the book arrived by post Nicola acted like a kid in a sweet shop, and on unwrapping the book, danced around her house with the book outstretched in her arms. She then sat down and read, in her haste not noticing the delightful old smell of a book that had survived for over two hundred years.

      The book contained many love spells and potions, but all the spells needed rare ingredients and tools, all of which would take her many months to gather, all of them it seemed except for one very simple spell.

      The spell simply needed a black pepper candle, a bowl of water, a mirror, and a drop of her own blood. She also needed to recite a Latin spell at the stroke of midnight and chant the words:

      ‘De Profundis, abyssus abyssum invocat, homo mortuus resurrectionem, do ut facias ad extremum amate, orta recens quam pura nites!’

      Nicola had no idea what the incantation meant! She did not care! All she knew was that the spell was entitled ‘Rekindling of a man’s Passion and Love’ and that was all Nicola needed or wanted to know!

      Gathering up a beeswax candle, wick and copious amounts of black pepper, (Nicola congratulated herself on having several tub’s of the spice in the cupboard); she started to make the black pepper candle.

      Although Nicola did curse profoundly at the amount of sneezing grinding up such a huge amount of black pepper caused her. Not once did she wonder why she needed to use the spice, and even if she had of known, that the spice was also called ‘Spirit’, she would never have stopped to wonder what relevance that held in such a spell. Her only aim at that time was to prepare and perform the spell; the consequences that might arise from doing so, never once entered her head.

      Placing the candle in the fridge to harden Nicola got ready for bed. She could hardly wait for the following night to arrive, and willed herself to sleep early in order to make the night pass and the time for performing the spell to approach quicker.

      The next day passed the same as any other in Nicola’s life. She got up, ate a bowl of porridge and made her way to work. Louisa and John, the two other librarians greeted her on her entry to the library, and she them in return, and then, just like any other day, Nicola settled down to work. Nicola never stopped for lunch break; and simply shook her head without looking up when John asked her if she would like to join him at the pub across the road.

      The fact of the matter was that John asked Nicola to join him for lunch at least once a week, and if she had just taken the time to notice, she would have seen a man besotted standing in front of her! Nicola thought his request was just a friendly one, she had never contemplated that he could be interested in her in a romantic sense, had decided long

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