Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror by Tim Curran & Lucy A. Snyder & Tim Waggoner & Cody Goodfellow & Jeffrey Thomas & William Meikle & Scott T. Goudsward & Don Webb & Christine Morgan & Scott R Jones

Author:Tim Curran & Lucy A. Snyder & Tim Waggoner & Cody Goodfellow & Jeffrey Thomas & William Meikle & Scott T. Goudsward & Don Webb & Christine Morgan & Scott R Jones [Curran, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Regions Press
Published: 2017-04-10T21:00:00+00:00

By the time Sam climbed up into the hangar’s gantry the whole structure was reverberating—it did indeed feel like being inside a giant bell. The scene outside did not improve his mood any.

From the height of the gantry he had a view of the whole airfield—and of the horde of amphis who stood on every inch of it. All of them had their heads raised high, mouths open in a single unified chorus of song that rang and echoed, seeming to fill the air, an almost solid wall of sound.

Once again Sam started to feel light-headed, starting to drift, and he had to concentrate to maintain focus.

He called up his companion

“Can I get an air strike out here, sharpish? We could take them all out at once.”

“Negative, sir. It’s the same all over—everyone is under siege and nothing is leaving the ground.”

He could see it in his mind’s eye—ranks of the amphis, around Westminster, around the old palaces, coming up out of the river, singing as they came.

Maybe the Yanks are right. Maybe we do need to use the nukes.

He couldn’t watch any more— just the sight of the ranks of upturned, amphibian features made him light headed and queasy again. He made his way slowly down off the gantry, barely aware that his heartbeat had synchronized with the rhythm of the chant, not noticing that he moved like a dancer, keeping the beat with his feet.