ASH2 - The Ghosts of Sleath by James Herbert

Author:James Herbert
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2010-06-23T22:00:00+00:00

He hesitated on the last step and stared at the door directly opposite. He was relieved to find it closed, but only for a moment. The question was, was it locked? He almost turned about and went back to the safety of his own rooms from where he could dial the police. But then how foolish he would look if they arrived to find nothing but a transistor radio inside there and the village doctor bleary-eyed and reeking of scotch? What then?

These wretched sounds were getting inside his head! He clenched his teeth together, deep lines creasing his thin face from his eyes to his jaw. His eyes almost closed and the knuckles on one hand were white as he clenched the keys. The noise was becoming unbearable. It sounded like a madhouse in there! It was too much, too bloody much!

He took the few feet to the door in quick steps and gripped the handle with his free hand, fury overcoming any reservations he might have had. He gave the doorhandle a sharp twist and pushed. It was locked! Thank God. No one could be inside, this was the only way in. It really was a radio in there.

So harsh was the noise, so disorientating had it become, that the key scraped past the lock twice before he managed to insert it. He was shouting against the voices as he turned the key and twisted the handle. Confused, maddened, he thrust open the door and reached inside for the light-switch.

The noise stopped immediately.

He stood just inside the doorway in complete - deafening - silence. There was no radio and there were no people.

But there was an odious, clinging kind of smell, one that he knew quite well. For it was the smell of dead bodies.

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