Adventures in the Twilight Zone
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 0886776627
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A brother and sister confront the ghost of an unknown sibling, a time traveler tries to change the course of the Civil War, and a man is given the opportunity to create world peace, in a collection of twenty-three tales of the macabre, fantasy, and the supernatural. Original.
back away from the computer terminal and took up the slim black cigarette smoldering in the ashtray nearby. What more could he say that he had not already said about the man who had turned the historic city into his own private version of a tortured futuristic scene from a fevered, some said sick, imagination? Commissioned by the city fathers, Thanopolis had designed and erected a community theater that featured black granite columns and triangular protrusions into the sky that gave the
other unsavory looking individuals on the street. He was a large man, with hard eyes but a soft body, flesh that hung loosely from jowls and clutched him tightly around the waist. His presence here only served to confirm Sir Albert's conviction that he had been drawn to this den of evil for a purpose, to rescue the Grail. He shifted slightly in order to study his presumed opponent and only then realized the Black Knight was not alone. A young woman stood at his side, long blonde hair, lightly
in his own conscious mind was innocent? Or would he have to leave out the moral question entirely, and kill Jerry the same way-and for the same reasons-that one shot a rabid dog? As he stood there before his bathroom mirror, David Englander knew that what he was contemplating violated every objective standard by which he had lived his life. He knew that what he was considering was illegal. He knew it would be viewed as immoral-that it might, in fact, be immoral. He knew that there was a
and burrowed it deep into his pocket. Feeling around the mud where he sat, Patrick tried to relocate the flashlight parts. His fingers sifted through mud and small rocks. Nothing within reach. In complete darkness, he was too afraid to move from the alcove. He wished he hadn't given up smoking; then he'd have a lighter on him, or at least a pack of matches. How long had it been since Troy had left? Fifteen minutes? An hour? He wished he could tell. He stared down at his watch but saw nothing.
furiously at the back door. As he stood to count bills from his wallet, a shimmer in the grimy window caught his eye. Down the long desert road, a harlequin blob contracted and elongated in the heat-haze. The bus was on their trail. He told himself wryly that their pursuers must be psychic. "Suzy!" he shouted as he ran to the car. He blasted the horn. "Come here, quick!" She whipped around the corner of the cafe more gracefully than he would have thought likely. Hearing a fearful din erupt