Haunted Hotel Image Contest Vote

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Voting ends November 7th 2024.

THE PHANTOM'S TALE.

"Oh! woe is me" the phantom wailed
As through ghostly halls his head he trailed:
"Oh! woe, Oh! woe, thrice woe again,
Eternally walking these halls of pain.
These walls wherein I met my doom
Hacked down in prime as flower in bloom.
You ask what crime deserves such fate
I'll tell a tale sad to relate.

In 1820 early one morn
The sun did herald a bright new dawn,
My lady called, Carruthers, here,
Bring early morning tea and fare.
Fare, a code, alone was she
Eager I ran, duty clear to see.
Full buxom was my lady fair
Lusts as fiery as her flaming hair.

She lay, disrobed on her silken bed
As I rushed in my clothes I shed
With a crash behind the door burst forth
His lordship there, his features coarse.
"Aha! cried he", Oho! cried I,
"I'm undone" cried she and swooning did lie
No chance had I, his sword hissed down
My head on carpet bounced around.

My tale is told, but things get worse
I'll tell you ere I end this verse
Of how, each hallows eve must I
Glide hotel halls, head held high
To frighten guests with curdling shrieks
And rattling chains on floors that creak,
But no one cares as I wail and moan
Great CGI they laugh, I groan".

Heartbreak Hotel

By Candlewitch

At the edge of Bremen township
Heartbreak Hotel, on the outskirt,
long ago shut down and boarded...
Sits heavy on a patch of dirt.

In its heyday, a jumpin' joint
sporting, dance floor piano Bar,
cafe, and comforts in Aces
noted by all to be five star.

Scandals hit hard, this Roadside Inn,
so many sorrows in those walls,
a place for secrets to gather
now paint peels as wallpaper falls.

Sue, and her swain, caught with pants down,
her husband burst into their room.
Caught in the act, the lovers cowered,
the gun in Jim's hand spelled their doom.

There were tears in Jim's eyes, he cried
as he aimed and shot them both dead.
His aim was truly on target,
her in the heart, him in the head.

Next Jim turned the gun on himself,
cognizant of what he had done.
He took a stiff drink from his flask
shot to the brain, dropping the gun...

Jim, Sue and her secret lover
caught in a time loop to repeat
deadly event costing their lives
ever replay this night of heat!

There are many stories, gruesome,
sordid events of lost humanity
about Heartbreak Hotel, 'tis true
the worst of lost sanity.

On a full moon, do not enter...
you wish to live, stray not a toe,
threshold of Death's agents live here
icy grasp, beginning of woe.

So many have taken the dare ,
to spend a ghastly frightful night
amongst pure evil as his Guest
heart strong enough to take this fright?

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