25 A Werewolf Among Us by Dean Koontz

Author:Dean Koontz [Koontz, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
ISBN: 9780345030559
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1973-09-16T05:00:00+00:00

He turned right, starred for another walkway, watched the same thing happen, except that this time it was the grass that grew swiftly to cover the entrance. The blades widened as they grew, toughened, twined rapidly in and out of the side-poles of the rose arbor which framed the entrance to the walk, forming an impassable barrier.

St. Cyr turned and faced the other way.

The hedge behind which he had hidden only a few minutes ago had begun to join in with the harmony of growth—no, the cacophony. It sprouted new branches. Actual y, they looked more like vines, highly flexible vines covered with wicked inch-long thorns. A dozen of these ropy tentacles had almost reached him. As he watched, they rose from the ground like snakes responding to the music of a flute, stood higher and higher stil until they towered over him.

At the last instant he realized what they intended. They would fal and embrace him, squeeze him firmly in a crosshatch of thorns.

He screamed, fel , rol ed to the left barely fast enough to avoid them as they dropped where he had been.

The vines thrashed agitatedly.

He could hear things growing al around him, bursting forth like gardens he had seen filmed with stop-action photography. He got up and ran.

He passed through the entrance to another walkway before he noticed it, and he was elated that, unconsciously, he had fooled the garden. He was on his way out of it.

Hallucinations.

He paid no attention to the bio-computer now. He was in no mood to listen to anything except the incredible roar of growing things, which he fancied was as loud as the continuous explosion at the base of a major waterfal s.

Be calm. Hallucination.

On both sides the trees shot up, growing so fast that they would soon punch out the sky.

"Sky" is basically an abstract term. You are hallucinating. He had gone a hundred feet down the flagstone path when, immediately before him in the leaping, dancing chaos of the garden, a silver and black wolf appeared. It was larger than he was, and it was bearing down on him.

He tried to side-step; could not.

Silver claws slashed down across his shoulder, dug deep, ripped loose, carried away a spray of blood.

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