Ghostbusters by Larry Milne

Author:Larry Milne [Milne, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Movie Novelization
ISBN: 9780340372517
Amazon: 0340372516
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Published: 1984-11-02T05:00:00+00:00

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A menacing Manhattan night.

A full moon rides fitfully through scudding banks of dark cloud. Shadows pass like wraiths over the towers of steel and glass, and deepen the gloom of the concrete canyons.

A deeper, darker shadow moves over the upper west side of the city and gathers itself above the high-rise apartment building located at 78th and Central Park West.

There it hovers and thickens, winding about itself in tortuous blue-black coils. There is something almost sentient about it, as if it contained a presence with a brain and a pair of eyes and a purpose. And as if that purpose was soon to be realised, brought at last to ultimate fulfilment.

At the pinnacle of the building, a dull pulsating glow begins to emanate from the polished dome of the temple.

Casting an eerie, shifting light over the bronze doors, the marble pillars, the pale stone balustrades.

Throwing into stark, grotesque relief the pair of huge carved beasts rampant, on their plinths. With paws raised, lips drawn back in frozen stone snarls, they resemble the mythical hounds of hell.

The glow bathes these hideous horned creatures… and it might be a trick of the shifting light that there is a tiny, barely perceptible movement —

But no, not possible. They are made of stone.

Dead stone.

A few grains of dust sift down from the raised paw of one of the creatures. A fine, hairline crack appears. The solid dead stone seems to tremble. And all at once there is the clearly audible sound of cracking and creaking as the stone crumbles away to reveal the black curled claws, sharp as talons.

The claws twitch in spasm and slowly flex.

The fissure in the stone spreads along the paw. Fragments pulverise and fall to the floor. Then whole massive chunks as the horned beast, the mythical creature — the Terror Dog — comes slowly and creakingly to life.

Its dead stone eye blinks open.

It is a huge baleful eye.

With slitted pupil.

Glowing red.

Evil.

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