Hellraiser- The Toll by Mark Alan Miller & Clive Barker

Author:Mark Alan Miller & Clive Barker [Miller, Mark Alan & Barker, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Novel, Horror
ISBN: 9781596068506
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Published: 2018-02-28T08:00:00+00:00

IV

GENEVIEVE REMBERT HAD BEEN a very beautiful woman. And sometimes, sitting at her little dressing table some mornings, if the light was kind, she saw a very distant memory of that beauty she once held. And she was very sad for the life that would never be hers to live again, nor the happiness to be had.

She thought of her changing reflection as she walked towards the wall of jungle that marked the boundary of her corner of the world. She knew that the man who had made her look more beautiful than even her bones could remember was there deep in the darkness beyond that boundary. It made her a little afraid to think of that.

Claude had been dead for fourteen years and, born as she was of a melancholy mother, her thoughts turned more often than she liked to the grave—to his grave—and to what lay within it. Her imagination, which had been troublingly active from childhood, had no problem conjuring the way his face, would have been destroyed by the grave. She did not relish the idea of meeting that face somewhere in the darkness ahead of her. But she had always known that this night would come.

So she was here, and there was no help for it but to live a little longer and hope that the reunion was a joyous one. Perhaps, she thought, it would be best if she did as she had done on the day that she and Claude had first met, and initiate the conversation. She halted four or five strides from the trees and stared into the blackness.

“Husband?” she said.

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