Devil's Peak by Brian Ball

Author:Brian Ball
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, satanism, crime, supernatural, terror
ISBN: 9781479409310
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2014-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

“I say, Brenda, won’t it be fun to stay another night!” rang out Julie’s fastidious voice.

The lorry-girl turned and headed for the café followed by the trail of excited schoolgirls, her dank hair blowing about in the increasing wind. Bill Ainsley and Jerry followed.

“I tried to tell that policeman about the Army fellow,” Jerry said. “He wouldn’t listen. No one listens.” His apprehension increased as he saw Brenda laughing with Sam Raybould at something Sam had said. “You’re sure you didn’t hear anything last night?”

“Why?”

The two men reached the café, to hear Mrs. Raybould yelling at her husband for allowing Sukie out into the snow; Raybould hid from her.

“Listen,” said Jerry urgently. “I think there’s something going on here! I’m sure of it. I expect you noticed how Brenda seems to have got the girls into a weird way of giggling and talking?”

“She was telling them how much she makes on a good night,” said Bill. “They’ll have heard worse.”

“She’s doing more than that.”

They were about the fire once more, talking in low tones. Raybould appeared from time to time from the corridor, eyeing Brenda.

“Aye?” Bill wasn’t especially interested.

“I got up last night—I couldn’t sleep. It must have been around midnight. I heard this noise—it was them! They were in a trance, Bill, a trance! She’d got them into some kind of hallucinatory state—”

“Oh, Lord!” rang out a clear, educated feminine voice. “How could you, Brenda!”

And the low growl of South Yorkshire went on, to describe some motorised adventure of the M1.

“How d’you mean?” said Bill. “Like what?”

“Well, they ware all naked—and that damned coalscuttle was in it! You know how the firelight catches the figures and seems to make them move?”

“It’s a bit fanciful—”

“I didn’t imagine it!” Jerry said fiercely. “They were in a trance—and Brenda was showing them how the figures should move. I tell you, Bill, she’s evil! The girl’s got something about her, that turns these girls the same way! Anyway,” he said, remembering Sukie’s mournful howling, “the poodle sensed it. She was awake.”

“The dilly bitch howls at nothing,” Bill grinned. The driver looked at the happy, chattering group. And Jerry could see his difficulty. The evidence of his own eyes flatly contradicted what Jerry was saying; some of them started up a game of Bing-Bang-Bong; two were rereading the agony column of Woman, and Julie was telling Brenda about school. They were all so normal!

“I didn’t dream it!” Jerry insisted.

“They do get a bit like that, all girls together,” Bill allowed. “Clothes off after dark, like.”

“But the sensation of evil!” Jerry exclaimed. “And what about her and that missing Lieutenant?”

“Aye, well, there wasn’t much to that. He lost his way. She’d been around, so naturally when the call went out one of the drivers who’d picked her up mentioned it, and she was questioned. But she’d nothing to do with it—he must have been trying to find the tracks around the other side of the Peak. There was this radiation that kept mucking up his radio.

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