The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin

Author:Robert Irwin [Irwin, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: 100 Best, Horror
ISBN: 9781590209202
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Vane went back to the House of Sleep and that night set himself to dream again that he was once more in the hidden room. Zuleyka turned to him and asked if her invisible playmate might appear. He nodded and she turned to the wall, singing as she concentrated. Slowly some of the cracks detached themselves from the wall and hovered in the air like tendrils of smoke. Then slowly too these tendrils of smoke assumed form and filled with colour and Fatima, pale and shaking, stood before them, moulding herself and coagulating in the air. They tested her with riddles. Zuleyka teased the spirit and amused herself, but Vane, fascinated by Fatima’s impassive round face and unfaltering answers, was drawn on by deeper feelings. Zuleyka ran her hands over him incessantly, feverishly, but he sat there not noticing, staring and staring at her imaginary playmate.

He dreamt also of the somnambulist at the Zuweyla Gate. Knife in hand, the somnambulist emerged from his cage. The street was unsteady under the huge negro’s feet, and light and shadow swept through the enclosed space in irregular diagonals. Once the somnambulist’s face turned and the torchlight showed the distended whites of his eyes and a tracery of silver sweat.

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