Weird Fiction Megapack: 25 Stories from Weird Tales by Wildside Press

Weird Fiction Megapack: 25 Stories from Weird Tales by Wildside Press

Author:Wildside Press [Press, Wildside]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories, Fantasy, Horror, weird tales, short story, weird fiction
ISBN: 9781434442666
Amazon: B00HV2BECI
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 2014-01-14T05:00:00+00:00


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.

“Gunnar!”

There was no answer in words, but from the shadows a figure limped, his face and head cut and bleeding, so gaunt, so shadow-like too, that she cried out again.

“Oh! Oh, my dear!”

He took her in his arms. She clasped him, drew his head down to hers, kissed the gray tortured face with passionate love and pity.

“Gunnar, I am here with you! Look at me! What is it?—tell me, darling, let me help you!”

His eyes met hers in such bitter despair and longing that she clutched him to her again, pressing her face against his shoulder. With gentle touch he put her from him.

“Listen to me, Merle, my darling. My beloved! Listen carefully. This is the last time I shall see you—touch you—forever. I am lost—lost and damned. In a moment you will see for yourself. That is why he brought you here. Remember that I love you more than the soul I have lost—always—always, Merle!”

He pushed her from him, retreated to the shadows, stood there with head flung up and back pressed to the gray mud wall. Even as she would have gone to him, he changed, swiftly, dreadfully! Down—down in the dust—torn rough head and yellow wolf’s eyes at her feet.



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