Horror Stories: Volume 1 by Anthology

Author:Anthology [Anthology]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

I don’t suppose any of us expected to sleep much that night, but at least in sleep there was some respite from this mess. I lay quietly in my sleeping bag, running the events of the last few days through my mind, but nothing seemed to make sense. Outside, the wind whipped through the trees and a stray draught made the flame of my lamp flicker. I felt more alone then that I’d ever done before, and wished I were sharing with one of the others. But since Linaker had gone, I’d had the tent to myself.

Tomorrow we faced a sixty-mile journey over some of the roughest terrain in the world. With luck, we could be back at Kelsey’s Point within five days, maybe a little less if we had good weather. But if anything should happen to Quinlan, we were completely cut off from the outside world.

I turned onto my side and closed my eyes. I’d pinned everything on this film. After three years of producing and directing documentaries on a whole variety of subjects, I’d decided that this one was finally going to put me on the map. This one was going to win me a clutch of awards and help me take a step up to one of the big networks. I hadn’t figured on it ending like this.

I guess I must have drifted off to sleep sometime after midnight, trying not to think about Campbell but seeing over and over again in my mind the awful, gut-twisting manner of his death.

Which was strange, really, because I didn’t actually see how it came to happen at all. None of us did. We’d all been busy with our own tasks, still secretly speculating on the fates of McVeigh and Linaker when suddenly, above the constant moan of the wind there came a kind of deep, dull whoomp of sound and a wave of hot air pushed me forward.

My first thought was for Campbell, who’d been ten or twelve feet behind me, sorting out cables for the lights, but when I turned around to see what had happened, he was nowhere in sight.

Instead, my attention was taken by a bright orange flame that rose up out of the ground to a height of about eight feet.

Out here, in the middle of all this snow and ice, it looked so incongruous, that flame that shot up from out of a puddle of melted snow. My mind started screaming questions, demanding to know what the fuck was going on, but then all thought was wiped from my mind as Campbell appeared briefly—right at the heart of the fire.

A terrible, numbing dread settled over me then, as I watched him reaching out to me, his fingers clenching and unclenching in agony.

He took a stumbling step forward, his mouth yanked down at the corners in a scream that was drowned by the crackling flames, and then his legs buckled and he ploughed face-forward into the snow.

He kicked his legs weakly as the flames

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