Найти книгу: "Die Todesuhr - Horror Factory 9"

HORROR FACTORY: Neue Horror-Geschichten. Deutsche Autoren. Digitale Originalausgaben. Das ganze Spektrum des Phantastischen. Von Gothic bis Dark Fantasy. Vampire, Zombies, Serienmorder und das Grauen, das in der menschlichen Seele wohnt. Erscheint vierzehntaglich. Jeder Band in sich abgeschlossen. Zerschunden und unter Schmerzen erwacht Edgar Allan Poe in einem Kellerverlies. Dort trifft er auf einen geheimnisvollen Mann, der wie eine zwanzig Jahre altere Ausgabe seiner selbst aussieht. Binnen einer Woche wird Poe als Zuschauer seiner eigenen Beerdigung beiwohnen mussen, und das ist nicht der geringste Schrecken, den die Zeit fur ihn bereithalt. Die Todesuhr tickt …

Sailors kill a 50 foot creature at sea after a lengthy battle. The creature bears strange anatomical irregularities such as a single large eye and rudimentary forelegs and six-toed feet in place of pectoral fins. After inspection by marine biologists, it is revealed to be just a juvenile. The captain who captured the creature tours the coast and profits from the corpse of the deceased creature. As the captain attempts to finish his business at Martin's Beach, a group of swimmers are attacked. The captain and others attempt to rescue the victims but it is too late. The good samaritans and the captain are hypnotized and pulled into the water by the creature's apparently vengeful mother, to the horror of an onlooking crowd.

Circles and pentagrams loomed on every hand, and told indubitably of the strange beliefs and aspirations of those who dwelt so squalidly here. In the cellar, however, the strangest thing was found-a pile of genuine gold ingots covered carelessly with a piece of burlap, and bearing upon their shining surfaces the same weird hieroglyphics which also adorned the walls.

In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night.

Полный вариант заголовка: «A sketch drawn from the records of the British Factory at St. Petersburg and designed to elucidate the history of that body, from 1716 to 1824...».

Этот рассказ – финалист конкурса «Хорошие сценарии для России». Он написан в 2012 году, перед глазами стояла история Чаушеску, еще не было расправы народа над Каддафи и свержения других «товарищей». Текст очень реалистичен, актуален в наше время, и поэтому у него должен быть шанс стать прививкой для власти от ее избыточности и для народа – от бессмысленности самых крайних мер.