The Castle of Nightmares by Chris Ward

Author:Chris Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AMMFA Publishing

An old woman had just stepped out of an alleyway and was ambling towards the curb. Ludvic started to accelerate, sure he could get past her before she stepped out into the road, but Igor, the young police officer who had accompanied them in Slav’s absence, shook his head.

‘Let her cross. It’ll give me a moment to have a word with these tourists about the current situation.’

As Igor stood up, Ludvic brought the minibus to a stop. He waited as the woman stepped out into the road.

Even though her head was bowed there was something familiar about her. The stoop of her body and the colour of her hair reminded him of old Gretel.

She was halfway across the road when she turned to look up at him, her decomposing, dead lips widening in a smile that caused a lump of gristle to drop off her face and land on the road.

Ludvic stared as she stumbled up on to the curb on the other side of the street. For a second he thought she would fall flat on her face, then she turned and began to shuffle up the road, back in the direction they had come.

‘Well come on, let’s get moving,’ Igor said as he sat back down, unaware of what Ludvic had just seen. ‘It’ll be lunchtime before we get there at this rate. Where’d that old woman go?’

Ludvic gulped as his shaking hands pushed the minibus into gear and released the handbrake. As the vehicle started moving again, he made a conscious effort to avoid looking in either the side or rear-view mirrors, just in case she was standing back there, watching him, her dead hand lifting in a mocking wave.

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