Steve and I met Tammy while chatting in a thread on Facebook. Tammy and I immediately hit it off, finding we had a lot in common. We'd like to introduce Tammy to our friends and fans today.
Tammy Vreeland is from a small town in Indiana. As books became her means to escape boredom, she found she could get lost in the writings of Stephen King and Clive Barker. Tammy did get out of the small town and traveled on her own to Italy, Paris, London, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and Egypt. (Oh, I envy her visiting these places!) She has raised two boys and now travels along side her husband in a rig - where she writes.
Tammy states, "I write good old fashion horror. With my books I try to be creative in coming up with something that is not already out there. Each book is different and unique in its own way and I'll continue to come up with ideas that are not main stream Horror. If you like horror, suspense and the unusual, I think you will like my books."
She has successfully self-published five books and is working on a sixth. Below are four of Tammy's books and a blurb on each to peek your curiosity.
The Folks
Moving into a new home can become quite stressful. For David, it was the matter of juggling a new job, a mistress and a family at home. For Terry, it was the matter of making her new house into a home and recovering from a nervous breakdown. For Tyler, it was the stress of a 5 year old trying to fit into a new neighborhood with no friends.
A move can be quite difficult on a child, so much so that a way for the child to cope is to have an imaginary friend. This is where The Folks come in. You see Tyler not only has one imaginary friend but a whole group of imaginary friends that call themselves The Folks. Tyler meets The Folks the very first day he moves into his new room.
When Terry, Tyler’s mom, finds out about The Folks, she becomes concerned. But Terry’s family, friends and even her own therapist tell her that it is a healthy way for Tyler to cope with the move.
But when accidental deaths begin to occur and Tyler, with his imaginary Folks, happens to know more than they should. Terry begins to wonder that perhaps The Folks are not so health after all!
Prologue For
The Folks
It was naptime. Even moving into the new house, mom made sure he did not miss naptime. Mom would always let him pick out a toy to take to bed to play with until he fell asleep. Every day Tyler thought for sure he would be able to stay awake during the entire naptime but somehow he always fell asleep.
Tyler looked around his new room trying to figure out which toy to get. Most things were still in boxes; but mom had made sure he could get to his toys. He liked his new room. He had a big window that looked out into the woods. As he was looking at the window, he noticed a ray of sunlight landing on the exact toy he was thinking about finding.
“Thank you,” said Tyler.
“You’re welcome.”
Tyler looks all around the room. “Who said that?”
“We did.”
Still not knowing where the voice was coming from Tyler tries to move some of the boxes around.
Wondering out loud Tyler asks, “Are you behind here?”
“No, we’re in your sunbeam.” Tyler, not knowing what a sunbeam was asks, “What’s a sunbeam?”
“It’s the light from the sun that helped you find your toy.”
“Oh.” Tyler walks over to the light on the floor and look down into it. “Hi, I’m Tyler, what’s your name?”
“You can just call us The Folks.”
John is a small town reporter who has just been given the chance of a lifetime. The notorious serial killer, Taylor the Tailor, has requested him personally to write her life’s story. The catch is John has only three days before Taylor is to be electrocuted to interview her.
During those three days, John unravels a story like no other. Overwhelmed in just the first interview, John turns to his young assistant Lauren for help. Lauren readily agrees and heads to Taylor’s hometown to come up with cold facts to help make Taylor’s story a credible one.
However, both Lauren and John quickly realize that Taylor’s tale may not be that easy to prove. Although both of them are skeptics at heart, they quickly realize that Taylor’s story is not an easy one to understand or believe. Especially, with its supernatural under tones.
John’s interviews start with Taylor’s childhood and to his horror, John realizes that Taylor had begun to kill as early as the age of four, with her first victim being her father. As Taylor grows up, her list of victims increase as does her skills for being “The Tailor” sharpens.
Tim is Taylor’s brother, who had been institutionalized at a very young age. Upon being released, Tim had changed his name so as not to be connected with Taylor in any fashion. Unfortunately, due to Taylor’s impending doom, Tim finds himself thrown back into Taylor’s world.
Tim and Lauren team up to try and put a stop to Taylor’s evil once and for all. Yet, all three of them question on to why Taylor wants her story to be told now? Is it to seek redemption for all the bad deeds she had done, knowing her time is limited? Maybe, it’s to brag to the world on how much she got away with and how she did it? Or, is it something so much darker that none of them will find out until the third day at the strike of midnight?
Prologue For Tailor
All the women gathered around Anne to watch her open her presents. It had turned out to be such a nice baby shower. One by one, Anne opens the presents with the women ooohing and ahhing over each item.
The next present was a huge box with beautiful unusual gold wrapping. Anne gently sits it on her lap, as she does the baby kicks. Anne laughs, “Wow, this one must be really special even the baby is excited!” All the women laugh along with her.
Carrie, Anne’s best friend is keeping a track of all the cards. As Anne opens the box, Carrie asks for the card. Anne stops, looks all around and says, “This one doesn’t seem to have one?”
Carrie looks around on the floor but agrees, “Yea you’re right, maybe it’s inside the box?” Looking around at the women no one admits the present is theirs.
Anne takes all the wrapping off and slowly opens the box. All the women wait in anticipation. Anne looks inside the box with a puzzled look. She goes to bring the item out for all to see but with the first touch, she quickly takes her hand back in repulsion.
Not wanting to hurt anyone’s feelings Anne wills herself to pick up the item for all to see. The room suddenly gets quiet. Carrie takes the box from Anne and tries to break the silence, “Wow, that’s something! I’ve never seen anything quite like that.”
“I haven’t either, you should feel it…it feels like it is real,” Anne hands it to Carrie.
Carrie goes to take it but almost drops it the moment she feels it. Concerned Carrie asks, “You don’t think it is, do you?”
Anne shrugs her shoulders and answers, “I don’t know,” it was the damnest thing she had ever seen. It was a full size teddy bear that was about 2 feet tall. The coloring was beautiful and the craftsmanship was remarkable. But the fur was long and felt like some sort of animal hair and the eyes, or lacks of eyes, made it look even stranger.
Looking it over and trying to be nice Carrie replies, “Well at least who ever made this was thoughtful enough to sew over the eyes.” Carrie pokes at where the eyes should be, “Yea, it seems like the eyes are there they just must have wanted to make it baby proof, that was thoughtful.”
Carrie hands it back to Anne. Anne positions it on her lap looking out at the ladies in the room. Again, the baby moves but this time it feels as if a hand is trying to come out and grab for the teddy bear.
Transporter of Souls
Evan’s boss John realizes that Evan has become burned out with Police Towing. The death and destruction that Evan sees on a
daily basis has finally taken its toll. Not wanting to lose Evan, John proposes for Evan to start his own business in towing salvage cars.
John assures Evan that he can provide him with enough contacts to start the business up. And somehow strangely enough the money becomes available to Evan with the unexpected passing of his Grandmother.
Now with a new business and a new love interest, Evan begins his new life. But soon Evan quickly realizes that the horrors he has encountered at the scene of accidents may not be the end of life as he thought. That maybe, souls are trapped in the ruins of cars they perished in? A curse that began with the very first known automobile accident. A curse that continues to this day. And as with most curses, man has figured a way not to remove it but to profit from it.
Prologue for Transporter of Souls
It was a hot summer day as the horse drawn wagon makes it way down the side of the mountain towards town. The man at the reigns tries desperately to maneuver the horses around the small confining path that they use as a road.
His family huddles in the back trying to anticipate each turn and bump along the way. Although slow going and very dangerous it is the only way to get the whole family into town for the festival.
Just ahead, the man sees a cloud of dust and hears a loud rumbling noise coming up the path towards them. With a steep cliff to the one side of him and a thick forest barrier to the other side there is nowhere for the man to pull over.
As the sound gets closer, the horses begin to panic. The man tries to stop the horses but they become afraid and start going faster. Not wanting to go towards the sound the horses try to turn and back up. However, harnessed to the wagon only limits their movement and makes them even more frustrated.
The family in the back has no idea what to do other than try and hold on to each other. The man in the front tries to unlatch the harness to allow the horses to run free thus saving his family from going over the side of the cliff.
The rumbling and the dust cloud comes closer making the horses more frantic. Both horses rear up just as the man can see some sort of contraption coming towards them. When the horses reared up, the man was thrown off to the side. The wagon with the family still inside, along with the horses tumbles over the side of the cliff.
The man screams as he hears his own family screaming in pain and agony as they fall to their death. Grief stricken the man looks up from the road to see the contraption coming towards him at full speed. Terrified as a deer in headlights the man simply watches as the machine comes at him. It hits him hard and literally rolls right over the top of him.
Barely conscious the man on the road sees two town people get out of the machine and run over towards him. He hears the one man tell the other, “Henry, I told you it wasn’t a good idea to bring the automobile up here. Look what you have done!”
Henry bends down to help the man, “Sir? Are you ok?”
The man points over to the side of the cliff and whispers, “My family….”
Henry looks over to Jonathan as Jonathan peers over the side of the cliff, “Henry, my God you have to see this!”
Henry runs over to where Jonathan is standing and looks down the cliff. There he sees several bodies scattered along the mountainside. Two dead horses and what looked to once be a wagon was shattered among the rocks with them.
Jonathan looks at Henry stunned, “What are we going to do?”
Henry quickly replies, “We’re going to put him with his family.”
Jonathan shakes his head no, “Are you crazy? We can’t dothat, the man is still alive!”
Henry looks disgustedly towards the man, “He’s just a damn gypsy and he’s pretty far gone, he wouldn’t make it anyway. If we do this it will just look like they all went over and it was not our fault.”
Henry pauses and goes on, “We can take the automobile back into town and not breathe a word of this to anyone.”
Defiantly Jonathan answers, “But everyone knows we came up this way. In fact, they all told us not to but your arrogance brought us here anyway!”
Walking back to the man in the road, Henry says, “I’m not going to fight with you. We will just say we only went up a little way and turned around because the road was so bad. Anyway by the time anyone finds them we’ll be long gone.”
Knowing no other choice Jonathan agrees and helps pick the man up and takes him to the side of the cliff. As they are about to throw the man over to join his family the man whispers quietly, “I avenge my family by placing the strongest of curses I know. Know this; anyone who shall die in any type of contraption known as your automobile their soul will forever be trapped!”
Class Reunion
Tonya has just received a call from Darla, an old school mate, asking her to come to a class reunion. Feeling guilty about leaving and never looking back, Tonya decides to go.
The reunion is all about catching up with old friends. One friend though, is quite upset with the different paths people chose after graduation. They feel it is their duty to keep the reputation of the class and the school intact. Through the years they had done exactly that. Now with the reunion coming up, it was the perfect time to deal with many of the classmates in one night.
It’s a simple concept, they plan on using the different kills Tonya uses in her current horror book “Classmates” to make their own statement. This will take the suspicion off them and place it on what may simply be a fan of Tonya’s making a point.
Only the classmates themselves will know the true identity of the killer, but by then it will be to late!
Prologue For
Class Reunion
The shadowy figure goes over a list that is in front of them. Beside the list is an invitation to a class reunion. They smile to themselves as they think of what a big event it truly will be. They walk over to a huge cork board filled with names and pictures. Some names and pictures had a class ring attached to them. The figure smiles as they caress the rings lovingly. It had been a good class, small and never really any major problems.
That’s what nice about a small school, it’s so much easier to keep the outside world out. But that all changed after graduation. Each one going their own separate ways.
The world corrupting them into people you could hardly recognize any more. It was a shame and something needed to be done. A small school had a reputation to uphold.
It was the very symbol of American life. Classmates actions should not be allowed to tarnish that class or the school’s reputation. And yet, so many had strayed. Too many.
They reach over for Tonya’s book reading the title out loud “Classmates”? What would Tonya think if she knew her book would be the basis of a cleansing of her own classmates? They walk back over to the list and mark the last name off. They silently smile, all were accounted for now.
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