The Zombie Stone by K. G. Campbell

Author:K. G. Campbell [Campbell, K. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2021-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

Whisper, whisper.

It was louder now. More insistent. Demanding even. August could almost identify some element of language.

His attention was captured by the sad-faced young boy before him. This wax sculpture seemed different from the others; more complex. More lifelike. August peered at it closely.

“Is that”—he extended an inquisitive finger—“even wax?”

But before he could find out, the boy’s eyes snapped open.

August yelled and backed into the shelves behind him, knocking a toaster and a sharply jangling tambourine to the floor.

Over his shoulder popped a woman’s face, or at least half a face, all flesh below the lady’s nose having decomposed to expose her lower skull and jawbone. For a moment, August assumed that, like the ballerina, this was a damaged and unfortunate waxwork. But the moment was brief, for it immediately became clear that this woman was not formed from wax, being very much animated, her teeth clattering excitedly together, her eyes bulging and blinking.

Wigs, jars, and waxy body parts, skateboards, vases, and electrical appliances began to shift and tumble and clatter. The two animated faces were clearly attached to animated bodies that were now extricating themselves from the objects around them.

August stumbled back through the shelves toward Claudette, narrowly dodging a bar stool dislodged by the abrupt emergence of a third awakening figure.

Claudette moaned pitifully, pointing toward a fourth.

As lamps and plastic fire hydrants and tennis rackets fell to the floor or crashed against walls, it felt as if the entire room had been magicked to life. Grunts, growls, and indescribable animal sounds accompanied the appearance of jerking angular limbs and fiercely flashing eyes.

A huge, powerful man loomed out of the shadows, his enormous, yellowed, withered hands extending toward August. The figure’s swinging jaw and open mouth revealed scant but gruesome teeth, and he emitted a spine-chilling, soulless howl.

Other twisted, twitching persons appeared behind him.

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