Horror Stories from Horrified - Volume One (2)

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seated themselves. They sat separ ated by a vintage table, batter ed and clutter edw ith sheaves of tor n deeds and paper s. Some w er e tied in pink r ibbons, somemer ely stained w ith tea.?Not at all Mr Le?Ap.? Denholm r eplied.? I am lucky too. I believe this is aninvestment w e can both pr ofit fr om. Le Casino en Nuages w ill r e-open. It w ill be thestar t of something far , far bigger for both of us.??No Mr Denholm. You misunder stand. I am Lucky. Le?Ap...My name, it meansfor tune and luck in my language. I am know n as Lucky. It seems ... cor r ect... that acasino should br ing you Luck. A Lucky deal for us both you might say! People callme Lucky. I hope w e w ill have much business in the futur e together.??I hope so too Mr Le?Ap. I mean Lucky. Ther e ar e a few things I need to discussbefor e w e move for war d though. I am told ther e may be ?cer tain things?I shouldknow about the casino befor e I buy??Lucky allow ed a gener ous smile to spr ead slow ly acr oss his face. It was a smilew hich may have been mor e r e-assur ing had his eyes not become mor e fixed, as ifsmall glass shutter s had closed behind the lids.?If you w ill per mit, Mr Denholm, per haps you need a Le?Ap of faith?? He smiledat his ow n small joke and continued.?I am a man of business. Not pr one tosuper stitions. I have tr avelled w idely. I too am concer ned that you should know afew facts about the casino. I say facts r ather than stor ies, as you w ill hear manystor ies of ?The Black Casino?. To my mind, for your pur poses, many of the stor iesw ill do nothing but good for your , or should I say, our, shar ed ventur e.?Denholm shifted in his uncomfor table w ooden chair , r e-cr ossing his legs. Heleaned for war d towar d the law yer , tr ying to pr omote intimacy and honestybetw een them, that might benefit the deal.58
?I know about its name, ?The Black Casino?. It used to be mar bled in black. Ihear d that the bandits stole the mar ble and sold it all. I plan to r eplace it. I have agood supplier of mar ble. It?s cheap enough that per haps it?s also sour ced bybandits. The local name doesn?t bother me. I think of it as adver tising of a cer taintype.? He paused befor e looking mor e closely at Le?Ap and continued.?I know about the deaths, the ?suicide balcony?up ther e. That doesn?t bother meeither. It just adds a little ... theatr icality to the place. People often leave a casinopenniless and desper ate. It?s not unknow n for people to kill themselves after a badnight at any casino. It?s just a little mor e immediate up ther e should desper ationtake hold. I think it dar es the bold to tr y their luck. To me, Lucky, that?s exactlyw hat this w hole ventur e is about.??All this is tr ue Mr Denholm. I think you ar e r ight. The glamour of a publicflir tation w ith death w ill, in fact always has, pr omoted the casino in a str ange way.?The law yer r e-positioned himself and dr ew br eath befor e continuing.?I was mostly concer ned to know if you w er e awar e of the cur se. Of the otherdeaths. And of the ghosts. I am hoping these matter s have alr eady come to yourattention? It is impor tant to me that they should if they have not done so alr eady.I w ould like to discuss them in the way men might do. Not the way far mer s might.Or dar e I say of my ow n countr ymen and neighbour s, in ways that super stitiouspeasants might.?Denholm uncr ossed his legs and pulled a lar ge Robusto cigar fr om his pocket. Heclipped and lit it as if alr eady r ewar ding himself on the celebr ation balcony farabove them.?I have not hear d of them Mr Le?Ap. Per haps you w ould be so kind??Le?Ap looked at the Wester n man in fr ont of him. He watched the man?s eyesthr ough the cigar smoke. Just for a moment they r eminded him of the emptyw indow s of the casino, swathed as they often w er e in clouds at the high peak of the59
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Page 97 and 98: Ghosts of Kersal Moorby Ellis ReedV
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and the r apid hammer ing r esponse
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closed his eyes against the sun, w
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The chur ch was emer ging now , and
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?Photo album.??Oh my God!? Cassy sq
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joined like cher r ies w ith a stal
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She?d dr eamt of Adam again. He had
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Quercu de Cordibus Vestrisby John C
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then, I ask you, do you w ish to be
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and family, as this stage of the pr
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blur r ed eyes, I could see that it
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"This is the house w her e the par
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fuzzy at the edges with every drink
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"Oh my god," he heard himself say o
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About the authorBased in the heart
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?Do you think you should talk to so
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I was alr eady tir ed of gr appling
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?Alex??I told him I was fine and th
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smear ed w ith r ed. A cold w eight
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He nudged my knee w ith his foot, a
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mushr oom nesting in r ibcage. Inse
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We r eached the end of The Fields a
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thr ough the r ooms, putting on lig
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The war den show ed me to a pile of
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I called for the war den to r etur
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the cosy blanket of the cottage? op
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?Wher e is it, then?? Simon said, s
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They appr oached the lar ge, pointe
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they mind if she built the fir e up
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?It?s not r eally the done thing to
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them, although she could not see th
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skilfully befor e cocking it r eady
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stomach dr enched in the blood that
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First Footersby Jim Mount fieldI gr
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?Yous?ll be lucky if yous find anyo
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only the bellies of a few r ainclou
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w ir e shopping basket, dr essed in
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betw een those walls festooned w it
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?What do ye mean???Well, after all
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The fur ther -away half ser ved as
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He leapt off the ver anda and char
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T he W ind on the Waterby D avid Pa
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And he?d aim a punch at their heads
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w er e ther e, and he could see the
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