Arkham: Reanimated: A Horror Mystery (The Lovecraft Mysteries Book 2) by Brandon Berntson

Author:Brandon Berntson [Berntson, Brandon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-21T22:00:00+00:00

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It was a burned-out house of sorts, an old, barren, ghostly-looking place in the middle of nowhere, southwest of Arkham. Weeds and trees were all around, and Macky could see why Herbert West liked the place. It was in the middle of nowhere, completely isolated. He could imagine the mad scientist performing his deeds in secret. Macky wondered what other kinds of secrets this place held but wasn’t sure he wanted to know.

Tiki grabbed a flashlight from under the seat. He didn’t bother with the umbrella but made his way to the front door, which was just a wide opening in the dark.

There wasn’t much here, and for a second, Macky wondered why they’d come. Tiki stepped inside, and Macky followed. Some of the roof had been burned, and there were puddles of water here and there. The place was gutted and black with ash. Test tubes and broken beakers were on the floor, lab supplies, cabinets rifled through and empty with the doors wide open. The destruction was evident.

Tiki waved the flashlight back and forth. Spider webs covered the corners, which were also piled with leaves. Ash covered the ground.

“Like I said,” Tiki told him. “Not much left but old ghosts.”

Macky nodded. “You said it. I guess I just wanted to get a feel for the place. Give me a sense of who he was, what he did and why. But even the soul of this place is gone, don’t you think?”

Tiki chuckled.

“Something funny?” Macky asked.

“Just what you said, Mr. Devlin. That this place would have a soul because Herbert West didn’t believe in the soul. Maybe it’s appropriate you can’t feel one here, either.”

Macky looked at him in the light from the flashlight. He stepped backwards and felt the floor give underneath him. He stumbled back and looked down. A section of the flooring had come loose under his weight.

“Shine the light over here, Tiki,” Macky said, “would you, please?”

Tiki shined the light into a hole in the ground. When he looked at the flooring, Macky noticed another set of footprints beside his own.

“Someone’s been here,” he said.

“I see it.”

Macky looked at the floorboards. “Someone was looking for something,” he said.

“This gives me the hillbilly shakes, if you want to know the truth,” Tiki said.

“Tell me about it.”

He moved the loose board, and there was a space underneath, a square indentation on the ground as if a box had been sitting on the dirt. Whatever it was, it was gone now.

“Something there, sure enough,” Tiki said, shining the light where the square in the dirt was.

There was something else, too, a hollow windy sound coming from under the flooring.

“Stand back,” he told Tiki.

“That’s an entrance to the catacombs, Mr. Devlin,” Tiki said.

“What?”

“Entrance to the catacombs. There’s several in town. This is one. I discovered it years ago when looking for Gloria. There’s another in the library in one of the basement rooms.”

Macky looked at him for a long time. “You knew about these?”

Tiki nodded gravely. “For some time,” he said.

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