Horror Stories from Horrified - Volume One (2)

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expense, par ticular ly for the finer colour s and shades that ar e r ar ely seen in cloth.To w ear them, (as w ith this par ticular jacket Mr Denholm), it is a mar k of finesse.Of class, and a sign of no little w ealth. It signifies w hat you may call a cer tainamount of ?Je sais toutement quoi?. This r ar e and beautiful colour and I becamesynonymous. It became the motif by w hich I was know n. By w hich the colour itselfbecame know n, such was my r enow n at the height of my pomp. A blue of my ow n.This light, difficult to achieve aquamar ine is know n as cyan. ?The blue that Hew ear s?they called it. ?Cyan qu?il por te?. They nicknamed me in this way ?Cyanquille?you see? And the name r ather stuck. After my death, and subsequent meeting w iththis r ather ... dispar ate gr oup, they r ather liked it too. See-and-Kill. It?s a good nameI think they felt, for a man among bandits. Cyanquille, Mr Denholm, fabr ic mogul,long r etir ed...At your ser vice.?Denholm sat acr oss fr om Cyanquille and obser ved him. It was his clothing, theolder cut and finer y of a bygone age and class, that mar ked him as differ ent, r atherthan the quietus of his for mer being. Denholm had never befor e spoken w ith thedead. His initial obser vation was that he found them to be str angely attir ed.?M?sieu Cyanquille...I am at a loss as to w hat to say. How do you do? Pleased tomeet you? They seem such inadequate gr eetings. Yet I hear your w or ds and ampleased at them. Salutations. I am pleased you intend me no har m and ver y pleasedthat w e have a shar ed pur pose too. I am at a loss, how ever , as to w hat you maywant. Why w ould the dead, indeed, w hy w ould you M?sieu, want me to open thecasino so much again?? Denholm r esponded in the same dir ect manner thatCyanquille had appr oached him. Fear was not something he focussed on in hisbusiness tr ansactions?When it comes r ight dow n to it, I am unsur e how you could help. So far all youappear to have done is to fr ighten away my staff to ensur e I cannot r e-open. This68
said, I am a man of business. So, although this w ould be an unusual ventur e, to saythe least, it w ould not be the fir st str ange alliance or cur ious deal that I have done. Iw ould have this building r e-opened, Cyanquille. You may r est as best you mightupon that intention.??I bet you w ould Mr Denholm. I ver y much bet you w ould. Please... Allow me toclear up a few matter s for you, w hich may be bother some. I have not...We have notscar ed away your staff. They have left as a r esult of their ow n gr eed and fear. Wehave r etur ned, in fact, simply because they left. We ar e ver y committed to yourplans, Mr Denholm. In fact, in the absence of a w or kfor ce, w e ar e her e to be thatw or kfor ce for you. We w ill mix cement. We w ill plaster and car pet, polish shineand sw eep for you. We w ill do ever ything that needs be done to pr epar e Le Casinoto be opened. Among our number , w e hold gr eat exper ience and no little amount ofvaluable skills in such matter s. Then on completion Mr Denholm, w e w ould ask ourwage. It w ill be simply to be allow ed to r emain and to assist you her e. We w ouldlike that gr eatly and w e ar e pr epar ed to w or k, as you alr eady have. We w ould ver ymuch like to be her e on a...more permanent basis,? the ghost concluded.?You w ill mix cement for me? And assist me her e? For give me Cyanquille? Youar e indeed the dead. Can you do such things? Why on ear th...Why in any r ealm infact, would you do such things? And w hy Cyanquille? ? Why, if you can mix cement,w ould you w ish to stay her e? Ar e ther e no families that any of you w ould r etur n toand build palaces for ???The fir st of these points is easy, Denholm. We can do these things. Ver y muchso. We can w or k longer and har der , for none of w hat you w ould call pay. We ar ecommitted and do not tir e. We ar e an exemplar y w or kfor ce. It is tr ue that it is ar ar e occur r ence that w e might be muster ed and motivated for such a pact.How ever , for this casino Mr Denholm, not in fact for you, w e can do this. We ar e69
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anything of impor tance off the oak
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Lily nodded, peer ing back at the o
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Lily asked.The r esponse to her que
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Page 27 and 28: About the authorWhen he isn?t at th
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Page 39 and 40: After a w hile, I began to calm dow
Page 41 and 42: A gr and dr essing table sat over i
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Page 45 and 46: L onely this Christmasby Robert Edg
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Page 59 and 60: ?I know about its name, ?The Black
Page 61 and 62: Denholm appear ed unfazed by Le?Ap?
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Page 73 and 74: They w er e not mer e appar itions
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Page 79 and 80: w or ds? Will you seek some expensi
Page 81 and 82: Still, just to be on the safe side,
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Page 85 and 86: Good- N ightby T he Somnambulist So
Page 87 and 88: I tuck her into bed, in the spar e
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Page 97 and 98: Ghosts of Kersal Moorby Ellis ReedV
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Page 107 and 108: Now we hide on Kersal Moor?Via, ver
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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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and did not stop until I r eached t
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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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and the w or ktable lay not one pie
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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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Against that, w hat could he do? Wh
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He does love prophesying a misfortu
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