Science Fiction Terror Tales by Anthology

Author:Anthology [Anthology]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

Again he stopped abruptly. And this time he got unsteadily to his feet.

“No, it’s not imagination! Look, Frank! If you can’t see it, then I’m going crazy!”

I stared again. And this time I could swear I saw something too.

Deep in the ten-foot-thick retaining wall, a dim, luminous spot seemed to be growing. As though some phosphorescent growth were slowly mushrooming in there.

“You see it too?” he breathed.

“I see it too,” I whispered.

“Thank God for that! Then I’m sane or we’re both mad.

What’s happening inside that stuff? It’s getting brighter, and larger—” His fingers clamped over my arm. “Look! Look!”

But there was no need for him to tell me to look. I was staring already with starting eyes, while my heart began to hammer in my chest like a sledge.

As the faint, luminous spot in the concrete grew larger it also took recognizable form. And the form that appeared in the depths of the stuff was that of a human!

Human? Well, yes, if you can think of a thing no bigger than an eighteen-inch doll as being human.

A manikin a foot and a half high, embedded in the concrete! But not embedded—for it was moving! Toward us!

In astounded silence, Belmont and I stared. It didn’t occur to us then to be afraid. Nothing occurred to us save indescribable wonder at the impossible vision we saw.

I can close my eyes and see the thing now: a manlike little figure walking toward us through solid concrete. It bent forward as though shouldering a way against a sluggish tide, or k heavy wind; it moved as a deep-sea diver might move in clogging water. But that was all the resistance the concrete seemed to offer to it, that sluggish impediment to its forward movement.

Behind it there was a faint swirl of luminosity, like phosphorescent water moving in the trail of a tiny boat. And the luminosity surrounded the thing like an aura.

And now we could see its face and I heard Belmont’s whispered exclamation. For the face was as human as ours, with a straight nose, a firm, well-shaped mouth, and eyes glinting with intelligence.

With intelligence—and something else!

There was something deadly about those eyes peering at us through the misty concrete. Something that would have sent our hands leaping for our guns had not the thing been so little. You can’t physically fear a doll only a foot and a half high.

“What on earth is it—and how can it move through solid concrete?” breathed Belmont.

I couldn’t even guess the answer. But I had a theory that sprang full grown into my mind at the first sight of the little figure. It was all I had to offer in the way of explanation later, and I gave it to Belmont for what it was worth at the time.

“We must be looking at a hitherto unsuspected freak of evolution,” I said, instinctively talking in a whisper. “It must be that millions of years ago the human race split. Some of it stayed on top of the ground; some of it went into deep caves for shelter.

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