WOW! Thank you all so much guys and gals! My inbox just blew up! Whether it was the movie tie in or the latest chapters I posted I don’t know, but I’ve gone from zero to 120 followers in a month and broken 100 pre-orders…I can almost feel the feathery touch of Quill publishing on my cheek!
Again thank you all for your massive support. As the old comic once said, “I wear it constantly.” But seriously I’m immensely grateful and shocked at the interest in my genre mash-up story. I’d like to personally thank Peter Ryan author of SYNC CITY for his support, and if any of you are into gritty sci-fi thriller with a great lead character check it out! For those of you that recently pre-ordered my book you will have already received the original screenplay of LOUISIANA BLOOD and I hope you enjoy it.
For those of you wanting a copy of the screenplay please pre order HERE as only one hundred of these screenplays will be released.
One of the reasons Louisiana Blood seems to spark so much interest is its quirky mix of a love story spanning the centuries, horror, conspiracy, action and mystery thriller within a re-imagined Jack The Ripper historical framework.
So to whet your appetites and to satisfy my curiosity I’m going to post an extract below which is in the horror genre part of the story. If those of you who favour the horror genre would like to pre-order, or just like the post that would give me a heads up on the overall theme of my supporters. I will then do the same with excerpts from the Love, Thriller, Mystery, Conspiracy and Action parts of the story…looking forwards to this experiment.
Okay here we go, coming up is a horror scene as the characters discuss a possible theory to explain how the hell five of the original victims of Jack The Ripper ended up in a Louisiana swamp five years after they were murdered in Victorian London! We dip into the action as two of the Ripper suspects are stage managing one of their victims for release into polite society…it ain’t pretty! (Ghoulish laughter off stage.)
LONDON - 1888
“It would need organisation, money and power to mobilise the necessary pieces of the conspiracy”.
A tearful couple stand next to a slab, on which lies a shape draped in a blood stained sheet. The mortuary assistant pulls back the sheet revealing the pale face of the Ripper’s first Victim: Mary Anne Nicols. The couple nod. The sheet is pulled back over and the couple leave. The shape under the sheet sits up. Mary Ann Nicols is helped off the gurney.
She uses a cloth to rub pale makeup from her face as she’s led out.
“A few willing female corpses...not a problem with the amount of unethical and experimental surgery that went on in those days.”
Dr. Tumblety operates on a female patient in a Victorian lecture theatre. Outside a hospital a Policeman watches as a woman’s dead body is loaded into a carriage.
“They’d get somebody to do a slice and dice number on them to sensationalise the whole thing...”
A BLACK carriage stands in a pale shaft of moonlight. Nervous horses vent steam from their nostrils into the freezing night air.
“Somebody who enjoys their work, and who they have a hold over...someone who won’t talk...”
Inside the dark velvet womb of the carriage somebody hacks at a body...blood is everywhere. A sharp surgeons knife glints in the dark. Organs spill across white flesh. In a deserted London side street, a bloodstained body is dumped by the side of the road from the carriage. The carriage clatters off down the street and disappears. A police whistle sounds...an officer appears, a passersby stares at the corpse.
