Darkroom by Graham Masterton

Author:Graham Masterton [Masterton, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Horror
ISBN: 9780727860538
Google: K9AOAQAACAAJ
Amazon: B00FXO8NSE
Barnesnoble: B00FXO8NSE
Goodreads: 1706485
Publisher: Severn House Digital
Published: 2004-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Ten

Jim backed up against the wall. He couldn’t believe what he was looking at, but the camera creature was there, hanging right over him, its feet sliding on the polished wood floor like a horse trying to find its footing on an icy road. Its black bulk was unsteadily swaying from side to side, as if it could all collapse on top of him at any second. It reeked of chemicals, so that Jim’s eyes were crowded with tears and his sinuses were stung raw.

He edged back toward the window. He had almost reached it when the creature started to walk toward him, its joints creaking. Jim hefted his baseball bat. He didn’t know if hitting this apparition would do anything to deter it, but he could try. Its legs looked precarious enough, and it didn’t seem to be able to keep its balance.

He wrenched back the dusty velvet drapes and retreated into the window bay. The creature took another clattering step nearer, and then it stopped. He could hear it breathing, high and harsh, like a very old man struggling for air; and its breathing was punctuated every now and then by slow, mechanical ker-chikk.

As far as Jim could see, there was only one way for him to escape, and that was to dodge between the creature’s legs and try to reach the door. Tibbles would have to fend for herself. He could see her cowering underneath the bed and he reckoned that was probably the safest place for her to be.

He edged cautiously out of the window bay, weighing his baseball bat in both hands. ‘OK, whatever you are. Let’s see what you’re made of, shall we?’

He brandished his bat as if he were going to strike the creature on one of its jointed knees. He glanced up at it, to see if it was going to react, but all he could see on top of its tripod legs was a ragged black coat, and that black, all-covering cloth. Underneath the cloth, it looked blacker still. As black as a coal cellar. As black as your very worst nightmare.

Jim could hear his blood thumping in his ears. He took another step forward, and raised the baseball bat higher still. ‘You hear me?’ he screamed. ‘I’m walking out of here, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me!’

The creature hesitated, and then took one defensive step backward. Jim immediately jinked sideways, to the right, and then rolled on to the floor, commando style.

He rolled again, and again, gasping with fear and exertion. As he rolled over the third time, his left ankle became entangled with the table lamp wire, and as he rolled over yet again, he pulled the plug out of the wall, and the bedroom went totally black.

He struggled up on to his feet. With his arms thrashing in the darkness, and the table lamp still bouncing along the floor behind him, he blundered his way toward the door.

Just as he reached it there was a dazzling flash – so bright he felt as if the world had been turned inside-out.

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