The Weird Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Stories from Weird Tales by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: fantasy, horror, weird tales, short story, weird fiction
ISBN: 9781434442666
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2014-01-13T16:00:00+00:00

“Thank heaven, he’s gone!” Merle thrust her drawings into a portfolio, put on a hat, scrutinized her pale face in her compact-mirror, applied lipstick and rouge with an artist’s hand, and walked down the hill path.

At its junction with the dusty road, a tall black-clad figure joined her.

“You are punctual, Mademoiselle! That is well, for we must be there before sunset.”

It seemed an interminable walk to her as they dived and twisted through a labyrinth of courtyards, flights of steps, and overshadowed narrow streets. She followed her silent guide closely. It would be unpleasant to lose even such a grim protector as El Shabur. She shrank from the filthy whining beggars with their rags and sores, from the bold evil faces of the young men who stood to stare at her. Even the children revolted her—pale unhealthy abnormal little creatures that they were.

The sheykh hurried on through the old town with its towering fort-like houses to newer Siwa. Here the dwellings were only of two or three stories with open roofs that looked like great stone boxes shoved hastily together in irregular blocks.

* * * *

El Shabur looked at the sun, then turned to his companion with such malice in his black eyes that she shrank from him.

“He is here.”

She looked up at the house-front with its tiny windows and fought back the premonition of horror that made her throat dry and her heart beat heavily. She despised her weakness. Inside this sinister house, behind one of those dark slits of windows, Gunnar was waiting for her.

Why he’d not come to her, why she must visit him secretly with El Shabur, she refused to ask herself. She loved him. She was going to be with him. The rest did not count at all.

She followed her guide through a low entrance door, stumbled up a narrow dark stairway, caught glimpses of bare, untenanted, low-ceilinged rooms. El Shabur opened a door at the top of the house, drew back with a flash of white teeth. She stooped to enter the low doorway.

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