 Horror/Scary: June 05, 2024 Issue [#12575] |
This week: Sometimes Dead Is Better Edited by: W.D.Wilcox  
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“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“Would you like to see a magic trick?”
— The Grabber, “The Black Phone”
“Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back.”
— Dario Argento
“There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand.”
— Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”
“I’m scared to close my eyes, I’m scared to open them. We’re gonna die out here.”
— Heather Donahue, “The Blair Witch Project”
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The Dig
It is never pleasant to come upon the dead in a lonely place at midnight.
The archeologist felt the hair stand on the nape of his neck as he stared at the corpse sprawled upon the old floor before him.
This part of the dig was alight with candles in niches along the walls. Ancient tapestries were hung between figures of curious gods carved of dusty limestone that reflected dimly on the black mahogany floor.
Bracing his wavering courage, he examined the body. The dead man’s head sagged on broken vertebrae, and his throat had been crushed to a pulp of purplish flesh.
There was a movement to his right, and a leg made of solid stone savagely kicked him in the belly and dropped him gagging for air.
His eyes tried to focus on his assailant as another kick landed in his mouth. He screamed through a ruin of splintered teeth, blowing bloody froth from his mangled lips.
The heavy steps of the stone sentinel moved before him, and with inhuman strength, it lifted him by the neck from the floor. With eyes glittering like gems, the god crushed the archeologist's head like a grape, dropped him, and then slowly returned to its pedestal.
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