Thunder Moon Rising by Jeffrey Mariotte

Author:Jeffrey Mariotte
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466846371
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

He wasn’t overly fond of the smell in the alley, primarily of urine and plugs of tobacco and other, less immediately recognizable sources. But he breathed through his mouth and took a moment, letting the tranquil night soothe his nerves.

He was just turning to go back inside when he saw them at the mouth of the alley: three men, coming his way. He didn’t recognize them, but it was dark back there and he couldn’t make out any detail beyond silhouettes. Even those seemed to change as he watched, as if the men’s forms weren’t fixed, and they were becoming heavier or taller or more broad-shouldered right in front of him. “E-evenin’, gents,” he croaked uneasily.

The men didn’t answer. They didn’t say a word, even to one another. But as if they’d all had the same thought at the same instant, they charged forward. Their speed was astonishing; they hurtled down the alley as fast as Jack could grasp what they were doing. He had time to take one step back and to raise the basin to chest level, as if it might shield him from the inevitable impact. In the final instant before they reached him, he realized that they weren’t men at all, but figures as black as the deepest shadow on the darkest night, shapes with no distinguishing features. And as they reached him, he felt a chill, as if they carried the icy blast of winter with them, and he caught a foul scent that put him in mind, in the last moment of his life, of a shovelful of earth from a fresh, mass grave.

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