THE MASTERS of TERROR /
KEENE / CABALCON 2000

Oh hell, I'll just call it
THE GATHERING 2000
Brian Keene's Apt. and Mark Lancaster's House, Cockeysville, Maryland, USA

So Julie Morales and I arrived from New York and everything went swimmingly.
In addition to the leftovers from the expansive feast, there were lots of good friends, warm hugs and talk, talk, talk.

There was also beer . . . ah beer!

And the never ending pot of coffee for Geoff Cooper.

I received and gave great hugs to my friends, male and female alike. I renewed my acquaintance with Linda Addison and Gerard Houraner with the sneaking suspicion that they both would become good friends.

Ed Lee and Richard Laymon cornered me outside and demanded to know my loyalties concerning the presidential candidates. I told them I didn't like anybody and they immediately took this to mean that I was voting democrat. ME! A DEMOCRAT! HA!
So then they asked if I was a Republican. AFTER THAT KEN STARR PORNO SHOW IN PRIMETIME 99? I think not!
Unable to pin me down to any topic, they grew worrisome and wrothed great vexation. Ed Lee baited me on my Rush Limbaugh knowledge but I escaped unscathed since I had been listening to the show during my roadtrip, though Limbaugh was in limbo and had some Irish New Yorker filling in for him. The debate was left in a stalemate with me still undecided as to whom I would vote for (Me being a staunch McCain man).

After a few hours, I took my usual nightwalk and by the time I got back, things hadn't changed much. It was now early in the morning and the chatter continued unabated. It would not cease, it COULD not cease, THESE WERE FRIENDS.

Eventually, of course, Brian put us to our beds. Beds being a colloquial term for couch and floor. I am no gentleman when it comes to sleep so the eye movements and head jerking hints that maybe I should surrender my couch to one of the women fell on blind eyes. I was willing to share the couch, but that was it.

Its best not to go into any great detail about what happened next. Suffice it to say that those who were there know what happened, and those who weren't missed out.

Our Story continues, DAY 2

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ITS CONTEST TIME!
Brian Keene holds out the first prize in the trivia contest,
A Richard Laymon book complete with a bad review
wrapped around the cover, courtesy of Richard's
daughter, Kelly.
Right at this moment is when Brian realizes that his
fly is open.

PHOTO BY KELLY LAYMON

GEOFF COOPER WINS
Geoff answers a trivia question about his Brackard's Point series and wins some Star Wars Collectable cups.
Off to the corner, Brian stands uncomfortably cross-legged trying to hide his open fly.
Brad Gullickson misses nothing.

PHOTO BY KELLY LAYMON

WORSHIPPING THE BOOKS RICHARD WRITES ON
Those who know Eoghain O'Keefe (Pronounced "Owen")
know that he is a huge (The "Eoghain" part is pronounced "Owen") Richard Laymon fan. So naturally he was happy as
(Not the "O'Keefe" part, you understand. That's pronounced the normal way) a clam to win two autographed books, one paperback and one hardcover from the master (The normal pronunciation being "Puff the Mac Dragon").

PHOTO BY KELLY LAYMON

CAN YOU SPOT THE CREST KIDS?
Contests live forever, but not so little boys.
Contest over, everybody goes outside to play. You know, smiles like these would even terrify the Osmond family.
Jane Letty on the left gets in a clinch with Julie Morales.

PHOTO BY MARK LANCASTER

CIAO, BELLA
Mark Lancaster is tickled pink to be in a clench with the ever popular Jane Letty. As for Sister Jane, she takes it all in stride with the gravity of a pampered Gabor sister, long used to male attention.

PHOTO BY KELLY LAYMON

MARK TURNS RED
Jane Letty has this mysterious power over men as the
bashful blush on Mark's face clearly shows.

PHOTO BY KELLY LAYMON

SWEET LITTLE KELLY LAYMON
Kelly Laymon grew up around the folks of the Horror community. We all think of her as a surrogate daughter, niece, or little sister. This wonderful yet frail, petite, and lovely young lady is known to be a sweet, shy, and gentle soul.
Here Kelly politely tells Mark Lancaster that
"Yer gonna be taking the Next photo of your *sshole from the INside if you don't get that G*damn M*ther F*cking C*mera out of my FACE!"
Melissa Oliveri watches as her husband Mike mistakes the hall closet for a bathroom.

PHOTO BY MARK LANCASTER

YEEHAW!
Lots of people right? And this ain't even half of them!
Left to Right. Ms. Harper, Ms. Williams, Rick Williams, Linda Addison, Danial Harms,
Ed Lee, Vince Harper, Richard Laymon, Somebody Else, Me, and Judi Rohrig.
Brian pulls himself into the photograph while Geoff Cooper crouches in the center and
grins like a Gargoyle.

PHOTO BY MARK LANCASTER

SIBLINGS OF THE CYCATRIXX
My Cycatrixx sisters, Jane Letty and Judi Rohrig show the proper way to make a Feo Sandwich.

PHOTO BY MARK LANCASTER

AIN'T THAT CUTE?
Jane Letty and Tom Lancaster get in a clinch for the camera, but which one is happiest?

PHOTO BY MARK LANCASTER

HE'S MINE!
Tom is just so damn irresistible that even Brian Keene can't resist him. Here Jane holds onto Tom with a death grip while Brian pulls her hair.

PHOTO BY MARK LANCASTER

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