Gargoyle in the Dump, The by Bellairs John

Author:Bellairs, John [Bellairs, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Short Story, Fiction, Juvenile, Horror, Fantasy
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2015-04-21T19:37:26+00:00

Epilogue

The Burgys did not come back to their cottage that summer, and the Taliaferros never did find out what had happened that one stormy night. There was a little item in the Tekonsha Patriot-Chronicle, with the headline GARGOYLE TERRORIZES BRACE LAKE COUPLE, but no one paid much attention to it. Michael wheedled his mother and father into not putting the gargoyle back in the fountain, and four confused workmen carted the large stone ornament back up the stairs to the boys’ bedroom, where he stayed—more or less—the rest of the summer. He lived at the lake for many more summers, and resisted all Fonsy’s efforts to sell him and all David’s attempts to play checkers with him. Michael later became an archaeologist at Harvard and he took the gargoyle with him. He rests on Michael’s mantel between a Middle Kingdom hippopotamus and a Sumerian hog goddess, with whom he carries on noisy disputes that sometimes awaken Michael, who sleeps in the next room. And sometimes the gargoyle talks in his sleep.

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