Poltergeist by James Kahn

Author:James Kahn [Kahn, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Movie
ISBN: 0446302228
Publisher: Warner Books

In the living room, the flame and shadow circled the tree, while the people watched, enrapt. All at once, a low snarling sound attracted everyone’s attention to the hallway: in the darkness there, a figure was approaching.

The tree, flame, and shadow beings saw it at the same time—and appeared to go into a frenzy. The flame leaped into the shadow, and was gone; the shadow engulfed the tree, which disappeared; and then the shadow sailed up the stairwell, and vanished . . . into the shadows.

Lesh and the others stared at the hallway, where the shape was coming closer. It rapidly emerged into the half-light of the television glare: there, naked, slobbering, waddling like an orangutan . . . was Marty. Back from metamorphosis.

Marty stopped when he reached the group, stood erect, and looked confused. “Why’s everyone staring at me?” he demanded.

Before anyone could give an answer, something magnificent happened—the most magnificent happening of all this strange and awefull night. A woman appeared on the stairs.

The apparition of a woman. Tall, graceful, in a majestic turn-of-the-century gown, she floated down the stairs, surrounded by twenty hovering, gleaming lights. Magnificent because she was so beautiful; though none could exactly have described her face, and her eyes were dark as another time. Magnificent because she was so real—just who were bold might have reached out and touched her; though none were so bold. Magnificent, because she was a ghost.

The previous manifestations were wondrous, to be sure, but so bizarre, so essentially unnameable, as to be more hallucinatory than not, in the minds of the observers. Already, Lesh was wondering to herself: Did that just happen? Was it real?

But this woman—this was simply a truth. She was here. And the gravity of her sheer presence was overpowering.

She walked—or rather, wafted—among them, now. The scintillations around her moved wherever she moved, testing the air, drifting away from time to time, then returning to her. After-images—except that they were fore-images—preceded the woman each time she glided somewhere, as if she were somehow being led by her own flow.

Her ectoplasmic arms stretched out, periodically, into long, thin tendrils that reached across the room to test various objects, to palpate, to sense, and then withdraw back to her sides. She was constantly extending herself in that way, in fact—sometimes actually dissolving momentarily, to reconstitute a second later with a swirling, regathering of smoke.

So real, so haunting. They all watched her gauzy form move from chair to camera to curtain, and not a one of them didn’t hope to be so touched. Each felt thrilled, enthralled, and not a little struck by magic.

Motionless, they stood, as the woman wandered. Then, as they watched, she paused: the ephemeral blue-green mist that formed her seemed to congeal; her head enlarged, her eyes grew blacker; lips pulled back in demon snarl; arms rose up—and, as they watched, it seemed that something beastly welled within her, started to emerge. Chill fear settled in their hearts.

The room got colder. Everyone turned in different directions to see what was happening, when all of a sudden every light bulb in the place came on.

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