Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal by Mike Mignola

Author:Mike Mignola
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

The thing that had been inside the case moved through the solarium, shrieking its anger.

Bentley had thought they were friends, and begged for it to please reconsider, begged for it to spare his parents from its anger.

But its fury was too great, and it reached out to them with claws of rage and darkness and took their lives like fruit plucked from a tree.

Bentley wanted to go with them, to be with them, for was he not partly to blame for what had happened here? If it were not for him, they would never have attempted anything so foolish. The smoke was thicker now, the flames from the machines even larger, fueled by the air rushing in through the broken window.

He tried to recall where he had seen them last, crying out and sounding so very scared as the thing—his friend—made them pay for their sins.

Bentley tried to call to them, but the smoke that filled the air took this as an invitation to enter his mouth and nestle comfortably within his lungs, making him cough and choke and crumple to his knees.

Kneeling amid the broken glass, he tried to gather his strength, but there was none to be found, his reserves depleted. How sad it was, he thought as he slumped there amid the burning machinery and the suffocating smoke, for his parents to have gone through all this in an attempt to save his life, and still to have failed.

Bentley managed to raise his gaze for a moment, his hopes of finding at least one of his parents alive dwindling like his strength, when he saw movement.

Something moved within the smoke, coming toward him, and he thought for just a moment that maybe his mother or his father had indeed survived, and that he might live through this as well.

The little girl parted the smoke like heavy curtains, her beautiful face looking down to where he knelt, filled with disappointment.

Bentley now knew what she was—what she truly was—and felt an intense sensation of fear course through his body.

“I’m sorry,” he apologized to her, not knowing what else he might be able to do to make amends for what had been done.

“I’m sorry for them all, and for what they tried to do to you.”

The look upon his friend’s face went from one of severe disappointment to one of resignation, and she opened her arms to him.

And believing himself forgiven, Bentley responded in kind, opening his arms to her, but as he moved to embrace her, he found that she was gone. There was only smoke.

* * *

Abraham had locked the doors from the inside.

Pym had heard the sounds, the infernal ruckus, and immediately set to work trying to get back into the room. He was certain there was a key someplace, perhaps in the kitchen, where innumerable key rings hung just inside the wall of the basement door, but there wasn’t time.

Something was happening inside the solarium-turned-laboratory.

Something that very well might harm the members of the household that he had sworn to serve.

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