Creep Street by John Marsden

Author:John Marsden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Published: 1996-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

ou grab the can with one hand, still holding the cross with the other. You point it straight at the little spiders and let fly. The spray drifts over them in a toxic cloud. But they don’t even pause! They’re still coming at you, as menacing as ever. You back away, but these little critters are quick movers, and you don’t know if you’ll be able to outrun them. Then you hear Stacey cry out something. It sounds like ‘Fire!’ What on earth does she mean? Suddenly you get an idea. Just to your left there’s a candle burning in front of a statue. Fire! You drop the cross and grab the candle. You spray the Mortein through it, and yes, right away you have yourself a flame-thrower. You aim it at the spiders and laugh with pleasure at the sight of these evil little monsters shrivelling up and dying. It takes you about three minutes to kill them all but at last they’re all dead. Lucky for you, because there’s no Mortein left.

All around you are little smouldering cremated spiders. There must be hundreds, maybe thousands of them. Through the smoke you see Stacey. She’s staggering to her feet. She comes towards you. You’re not sure if maybe you should grab the cross again but she looks pretty normal now. She’s smiling and she reaches out and takes your hand.

‘Thank you,’ she says.

‘What was that all about?’ you ask.

She explains: ‘Years ago my great-great-grandfather looted the tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh. It was full of these little spiders. They bit him hundreds of times. He recovered, but what no-one realised was that they had laid their eggs under his skin. In time they hatched, and made their homes inside his body. And he passed the affliction on to each new generation. Since then our family has been cursed by the Pharaoh’s spiders. They gradually drive people mad.’ She shuddered. ‘They make you do the strangest things, behave in the strangest ways. The only cure is the cross and the fire. But it has to be someone who is innocent of the curse, who knows nothing about it, who can save us.’ She hugs you. ‘You’ve saved my life.’

‘Well, that’s great,’ you say, as your nostrils fill with smoke and a strange red glow starts to envelop the building. ‘But . . . um . . . hadn’t we better get out of here before the church burns down?’

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