Hotel Midnight by Simon Clark

Author:Simon Clark [Clark, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Horror, cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780709078197
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Tube train carries me home. I’m one of those people who looks Out through the carriage window rather than In. Of course, there’s nothing to see other than a blurred wall as we shoot a hundred feet beneath London’s frozen streets. Only sometimes you catch a glimpse of a tunnel branching away to run into darkness. Then you might see the spectral blue-white flash of another train as contacts brush the live rail. For me, it lends a hint of mystery to an otherwise drab as dust journey.

I step off the train to find myself alone on the platform. The train thunders away, drawing the air after it, which tugs at my hair and sends wrappers and paper cups scuttling along the platform. It’s the sound of claws scraping at stone.

As I walk to the exit I feel the phantom blast of air that signals the approach of another train. Only instead of the rush of warm air that I’ve felt a million times before, this blast is damp and its so cold it makes me bunch my fists and grit my teeth as it rips into my hair, raking my ears and setting my nerves on edge. For one mad moment I think the Thames has broken through the roof of the tunnel somewhere, and that it’s roaring towards me ready to engulf my body and dash me into eternity.

I pause for a moment. Watching. Feeling grit carried on the cold air sting my face and hearing the lunatic scratching of litter racing out of the tunnel to become white flapping creatures; albino bats driven from their roosting place by the flood.

Then … it’s gone as quickly as it came. The breeze dies. Newspapers mixed with chocolate wrappers flutter dead to the ground.

With a backward glance into the liquid darkness of the tunnel I head for the station lift.

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