By Rick Hautala
Within the halls... of the Mountain King...
There are many legends and old stories touching on Mount Agiochook, the second one tallest mountain in Maine. a few of these stories communicate of a demon that is living at the rocky slopes close to the mountain's snow-crested summit. Legend has it strength of supernatural evil periodically emerges from the mists that shroud the mountain and is derived right down to the valley, trying to declare a life.
Sometimes the lifestyles it claims is an animal — might be a stray puppy or a farmer's cow or a horse. At different instances, it claims a human lifestyles, a straying hiker or a misplaced camper.
Mark Newman has hiked the various trails to the summit of Mount Agiochook repeatedly. He has heard the tales and Indian legend, yet he doesn't think them.
Not until eventually one September afternoon, whilst an early snow hurricane sweeps during the mountains, and he witnesses whatever he is familiar with can't very likely be real.
But it's all too real!
Convinced that there's anything lurking close to the summit of the mountain... anything terrible... anything that won't be chuffed with claiming only one human existence, Mark vows to seek it down and smash it.
What he doesn't understand is that he, too, is being hunted. less than suspicion for the murders of his ally and his wife's lover, Mark is being pursued by means of the neighborhood police, an offended mob, and anything else... anything he can't start to understand until eventually he confronts it, face to face.
From foreign best-selling writer Rick Hautala — with dirt jacket paintings and inside illustrations through acclaimed artist Stephen R. Bissette, author of Tyrant — comes this terrifying event tale of horror and suspense that would thrill you and hang-out you lengthy after you've accomplished studying it.
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He had never really tested it to its limit. The needle was hovering on seventy when he caught sight of the two horses in the road ahead of him. A piebald and a black. They weren't just cantering. They were galloping towards him, wildly, panic-stricken tails streaming behind them. The shock sobered him somewhat, but it was too late. A screeching of tortured rubber, filled his ears as he slammed on the brakes, and a terrified neighing. Herbie hit the piebald head-on. The animal sprawled across the bonnet, forelegs splayed, screaming its agony as it was pushed along, both back legs breaking under the impact.
Newman unlocked the door of his own laboratory,' let himself in and turned the key behind him. He did not wish to be interrupted by anyone for any reason. There were about a dozen bats still left alive, the oxygen machine attached to the cage ensuring that there was no way in which either virus or bacteria could escape into the atmosphere. The creatures were still zooming frantically about their enclosure, and in the silence of the room their shrill piping and buffeting seemed even louder. Newman moved closer, watching them.
Well, I guess we'll have to tell Haynes the whole truth now,' he said, 'and we can only pray that the virus died in those victims, and that the bats which escaped are neither infected nor carriers. Otherwise . . ' He shook his head slowly, and his expression was grave. If the virus had been carried from the Biological Research Centre, then the possible consequences did not bear thinking about. Voices in the corridor outside interrupted them. Someone was banging on the door. 'What's happening in there?
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