Horror Stories from Horrified - Volume One (2)

only a few minutes ago it was mid-mor ning, and now Mister Gr egor y was having
lunch?
At least he seemed to be in a better mood.
Lily gr abbed her bag and dar ted thr ough into the fr ont of the stor e, avoiding
looking at her r eflection.
As she ate lunch, Lily mulled over the book in the cabinet. The idea that the tome
was not only super natur al, but was in fact the book containing the for eboding
tr anslations of those haunted pieces of glass, began to gnaw at her conscious.
What didn?t make sense was w hy old Mister Gr egor y didn?t seem to believe in the
super natur al. He cer tainly didn?t want her to r ead the book, so unless it was just
some big coincidence, sur ely he knew that the thing was pr obably not fr om this
w or ld either.
As Lily munched away on her little island in the stor e, she came to the conclusion
that she had to be subtle in her appr oach to the book in the back r oom. Both times
she?d ended up looking at the thing, time had seemed to pass by in an instant.
And w hat was mor e, Mister Gr egor y didn?t seem like the sor t of fellow w ho gave
second chances. Lily suspected that if he caught her r eading the thing, coupled w ith
her insistence on talking about the par anor mal ear lier , Mister Gr egor y w ould most
likely tell her to get lost. And she also guessed ther e was no chance he?d let her take
it away for r esear ch.
But the book was calling to her. Ever y time she glanced thr ough the black door
she felt the thing begging to be r ead. And as Lily finished up her lunch, she
concluded that it was no use; she had to see if it was indeed the book about the
glass inscr iptions that w er e found her e in Middleton so long ago. This find could
blow her disser tation w ide open. Imagine ever yone?s r eactions w hen she w ent back
to univer sity w ith the haunted book that made people disappear ?
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