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    Vampire Ghost: The Short Life and Many Deaths of Harry
    Vampire Ghost: The Short Life and Many Deaths of Harry
    Vampire Ghost: The Short Life and Many Deaths of Harry
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    Vampire Ghost: The Short Life and Many Deaths of Harry

    By O. Penn-Coughin

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    What happens when a vampire dies?
    Harry "Dead Baby" Wilson is about to find out.
    Turned at the age of 13, Harry spends 84 years wandering the earth feeding off the living and playing soccer. And then one morning he dies—again—in a horrible fire.

    But Harry soon discovers that death isn’t the end of the story because he's now a... vampire ghost!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYou Come Too Publishing
    Release dateNov 27, 2010
    ISBN9780981683683
    Vampire Ghost: The Short Life and Many Deaths of Harry
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    O. Penn-Coughin

    O. Penn-Coughin ("open coffin") is the ghoulishly gifted author of the spine-chilling series WELCOME TO HELL and THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU: SCARY STORIES THAT SCREAM TO BE READ.Listen to his stories on THE SCARY STORY PODCAST.

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      Book preview

      Vampire Ghost - O. Penn-Coughin

      Vampire Ghost

      The Short Life and Many Deaths

      of Harry Dead Baby Wilson

      Published by You Come Too Publishing at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 You Come Too Publishing

      The Terrifying

      You Come Too Publishing

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      They’re Coming For You:

      Scary Stories that Scream to be Read

      by O. Penn-Coughin

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      More Scary Stories that Scream to be Read

      by O. Penn-Coughin

      They’re Coming For You 3:

      Scary Stories that Scream to be Read… Thrice

      by O. Penn-Coughin

      They’re Coming For You

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      Vampire Ghost

      Book One: The Short Life and Many Deaths

      of Harry Dead Baby Wilson

      By O. Penn-Coughin

      Copyright © 2010 You Come Too Publishing

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical article and reviews.

      YOU COME TOO PUBLISHING

      Vampire Ghost

      The Short Life and Many Deaths

      of Harry Dead Baby Wilson

      by

      O. Penn-Coughin

      INTRODUCTION

      The fat kid was sucking on the chocolate shake like his brain was gonna implode. I slipped inside. Props to the kid. He knew his stuff. Fighting against the laws of inertia and gravity, the straw poked down into that frozen, sugary world of milky goodness like a divining rod. Sooooo good. Those perfect flavors and sensations on the tongue, oozing down the throat. The rich chocolate gooey sweetness of it all. We—me and the kid—were totally in the moment. Not thinking about anything else. Focused to the max. Shutting out all distractions.

      It was heaven. For a few seconds there, we were in fat kid heaven. The plump angels sang, or drooled, or did whatever plump angels do at such moments.

      That’s when I saw her.

      Well, I didn’t actually see her. It was more like I was violently thrown into her from across the room. The hamburger and fries sat untouched on her plate. She mostly looked away from the food, out the window at the rain. After a while she reached down for a fry. Yes! The salt on our lips. The golden outer layer fried to serious perfection. The heat escaping from the white potato core. And the taste of… sadness. Suddenly everything went bland as we slowly chewed on the fry and I couldn’t taste anything except for that sadness. Total and utter despair. It was like being trapped in a vampire movie.

      Whoa, I moaned, thankful that my time was up.

      Speaking of vampires, I suppose I should introduce myself before I go any further. Good evening—as they say—my name is Harry Dead Baby Wilson and I am one. A vampire that is, not a dead baby.

      Well, actually, if I’m going to be perfectly honest, large parts of that last statement are technically untrue. First of all, people did think I was a dead baby for a while. (I promise to get to that story shortly.) And in my current state, I am, sad to say, closer to being one than a vampire. A dead baby, that is.

      That’s because I’m a dead vampire. Emphasis on dead. Not undead, because then I would still be a vampire. Just dead. Well, not just dead either because if I were just dead I wouldn’t be able to do what I’m doing here. Because, as the saying goes, dead men tell no tales. Certainly not dead vampires.

      Think about it for a moment.

      What happens after a vampire dies?

      What happens after too much garlic, holy water, or sunlight? What happens after the cross or the fire or the stake—ah, yes, the dreaded stake—have done their dirty work?

      Nothing of course. Nothing happens. That’s how the movie always ends. Everyone knows that. That’s what we’ve always been told, and that’s what I always believed, too.

      Until it happened to me.

      When I died, I didn’t exactly disappear into nothingness. Okay, I pretty much did disappear into nothingness. But after the expected ashes-to-ashes vaporization thing, there was still something left. It’s hard to put into words. I suppose one way of looking at it is that I am what the cat would drag in—if it could see me and if there were something to see.

      The theories are mostly right though. I am mostly all gone. I’ve lost it all. I’ve lost my eyes and ears and teeth (including fangs) and toes. My spleen, my liver, my small and my large intestine, and my heart. I’ve lost my brains and my mind. I’ve lost my mind so many times, in fact, I’ve lost count. Lost count. Get it? As in Count Dracula? (I know, if you have to explain a joke, it couldn’t have been a very good joke to begin with. Best get used to it though.)

      But anyway, with all these things and so many others gone, somehow something remains, something with which to tell the tale.

      Here’s my story then, from the beginning…

      Oh, and slap me if I start sounding like a sad vampire. Slap me hard.

      You don’t want to go through life as a sad vampire. Life’s too short. (Even for vampires.)

      The last thing anyone needs is another sad blood brooder, moping around, feeling sorry for itself. Why, even skeletons find certain things humerus. (I have to chuckle. You see, the humerus is that long bone in your upper arm. Man, it’s just the intro and I’ve already had to explain two jokes.)

      Anyway, I can’t abide sad vampires. Loathe ‘em. Detest ‘em. Hate ‘em. Can’t stand ‘em.

      So slap me hard.

      Chapter One:

      WHERE IT BEGAN

      Before we begin, a few ground rules might be in order. Well, maybe just one. I feel it should almost go without saying but… Please, no dead baby jokes.

      Speaking of which, let’s get my name out of

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