"I felt like an artist admiring my handiwork, she
was after all my creation, an exquisite corpse. In life some would have said
she was pretty. I, myself, didn’t share that opinion. I could see the bog in
her, the stinking midden, which flowed too near to her birth place I could see
and smell that as well.
Yet when I first saw her move with the
unmistakable sauntering gait of the street walker, I was fascinated, the way a
lion might be staring at his prey.
I smiled and said something. She took my interest
as flattering, my conversation as exciting. I saw a smile and flash of her
teeth, still intact because she was young.
“Alone darling?”
Darling! What effrontery. Had she known who I was
she’d have died! How ironic, don’t you think?
“Ooh you are a gent, ain’t ya? Look dear! I don’t live far. Just this way.
Miller’s Court, see?”
It was late—few people were about even on these
disease ridden streets. So we walked along, just she and I, both full of happy
expectation.
Her lodgings were grim and disgusting. A broken
window with a piece of fabric shoved inside it to keep the cold out.
“Step in whilst I light the fire.”
The room was so tiny the door could not open
properly. Her bed seemed to fill up the
place, a busy bed no doubt.
“I‘ll just put this on...”
I turned in order not to see her tawdry
preparations.
“Alright
then.”
She was wearing a gaudy, nearly threadbare
chemise, long past its best, a gift perhaps made cheap from overuse. I think
she thought I was shy. “That’s right, ducks you just relax. I’ll stretch out on
me bed and wait, that’ll give you time.”
I smiled too as I reached for my friend: Mr. Sharp
and Ready—a pleasant sort of chap if you don’t rile him.
The women rile him—some women that is.
Some kind of instinct must have alerted her for
she suddenly opened her eyes..."
(end of excerpt)
In this horror collection you'll find stories of vampires, zombies, murderous midgets, demon clowns, evil dolls, haunted cemeteries, a real shop of horrors, taxidermy gone haywire, serial killers and more!
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