To the Devil - a Diva! by Paul Magrs
Author:Paul Magrs [Paul Magrs]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780749040697
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2011-11-11T16:00:00+00:00
That night Great Aunt Helen had another of her queer fits. This one was even more violent. Again I found myself banging on the sturdy wood of her bedroom door.
‘For heaven’s sake, Fox,’ Magda had grunted. ‘Would you ask her to put a sock in it?’
When I hammered and called this time, there came no reassuring words from my aunt, inviting me to mind my own business, assuring me she was actually fine. She simply kept on wailing and keening as if pursued by Beelzebub himself. Somewhere in the back of my fuddled mind I was wondering if Aunt Helen was plagued with the same vile nightmares that I had suffered since childhood. Perhaps they were just another familial inheritance.
Now she sounded as if she were in the throes of agony. I could even hear her thrashing about on her bed. That couldn’t be any good for a lady of her years.
So I took a deep breath, took hold of the brass doorknob and clicked open the door.
Inside there was just a spill of milky moonlight from under the ill-fitting curtains. I waited till my eyes gradually became used to the dark. Here the noise was much worse. The old girl was really letting rip. She was squawking and caterwauling fit to burst and, as I had suspected, she was flinging herself about with abandon in her four-poster bed. I was frozen into immobility. Somehow, observing such a bizarre spectacle seemed to me distasteful, even obscene. It looked as if my octogenarian aunt was in the fevered and passionate grip of some phantom lover. Her nightgown was awfully rucked up.
I told myself: be a man. I steeled my nerves and hastened to her bedside.
Instantly Great Aunt Helen fell silent and still. Her bright blue eyes flew open and fixed me with a terrible look. She said, very distinctly: ‘He will not get out of me. My head feels like it will burst with the pressure of him. I am so scared, Fox. You have to help me. You must help me.’
Then she passed out cold on her rumpled, perspiration sodden sheets. How odd, I remember thinking, that her words to me had been so composed and exact. And I also felt as if, by stepping up to that grand bed and listening to those weirdly calm sentences, I had taken my first real step into a story from which I would never escape.
Download
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
Anthologies | British & Irish |
Dark Fantasy | Erotic Horror |
Ghosts | Occult |
Reference | United States |
Vampires |
In Control (The City Series) by Crystal Serowka(35784)
The Wolf Sea (The Oathsworn Series, Book 2) by Low Robert(34692)
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry(33995)
Crowbone (The Oathsworn Series, Book 5) by Low Robert(33049)
The Book of Dreams (Saxon Series) by Severin Tim(32912)
The Daughters of Foxcote Manor by Eve Chase(23036)
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh(21011)
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman(19892)
Shot Through The Heart (Supernature Book 1) by Edwin James(18422)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt(18147)
The Girl from the Opera House by Nancy Carson(15379)
American King (New Camelot #3) by Sierra Simone(14860)
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda(14705)
Sad Girls by Lang Leav(13901)
Pimp by Iceberg Slim(13771)
The Betrayed by Graham Heather(12297)
The Betrayed by David Hosp(12198)
4 3 2 1: A Novel by Paul Auster(11781)
Still Me by Jojo Moyes(10779)
