Collinsport Part 4 A Dark Shadows novel

Chapter Two-Barnabas Collins-1967

Willie Loomis stared at the black coffin.

He extracted the coffin with his bare hands.

Once he did so, he was happy.

When the coffin begun to break, Barnabas Collins grabbed his throat.

It moved towards Willie's thorax with its right hand.

And almost crushed it.

***

Barnabas Collins walked near Willie.

Its red eyes stared at him.

It grabbed the black cane in its right hand; the ruby red diamond glowed in its right, middle finger. Its black hair was short; its black boots trod on the hard concrete.

"Take me to the house", it ordered.

"Yes, Barnabas", Willie smiled.

***

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard stared out of the window.

Suddenly, as she sipped her tea in the drawing room, she was frozen with terror. She turned around; she saw the figure of Willie Loomis.

"Good afternoon, Elizabeth. I have a friend here that I think you'd like to meet". She blinked. Then she saw a tall, pale, man holding a cane.

"Barnabas Collins".

"Barnabas...But you're dead".

"I was freed by my servant".

"Willie, what have you done?", she asked.

"I did what I was told, Elizabeth", Willie answered.

"You opened the coffins".

"Yes, and now the other ones will be freed, too. Angelique Brouchard, Quentin Collins, and Bramwell Collins, will be set loose, too".

"My family ancestors are resting in their graves. My husband, Paul Stoddard, is gone from Collinsport; my loss is my agony, too".

"Once they're released, it'll be a family reunion".

"I won't stand for...".

"I won't bother you again, M'lady", Barnabas Collins bowed.

He bared his sharp fangs, and glided away from the drawing room with Willie Loomis at his beck and call.

***

Roger Collins walked down the dark hallway.

David was sullen.

"What's the matter, David?", he asked.

"There's vampires at Collinsport Manor. One of them is Barnabas Collins. Willie opened up the coffins", he answered.

"Don't lie to me".

"I never lie".

And he went back into his bedroom door, and closed it.

***

Roger opened the drawing room.

"Elizabeth, what's this nonsense about...".

He gasped in shock as he saw Elizabeth shivering.

"He was here, Roger. Willie did open the coffins. I knew one day our secret would destroy us. I can tell if I'm in a bad mood concerning Paul. He left me; he never let me think that what he was doing with Jason McGuire, was illegal".

"I know, Liz. But some men are horrible".

"So, what now?".

"Now, if they're freeing all of our ancestors, God will cast us out of Heaven for what we've done". She summoned all of her negative energy, and put her tea cup away in the spacious kitchen.

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