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dore was clawing at the door handle, but it was locked and his wife seemed oblivious to his plight. |
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"Betty, for Christ's sake, let me in!" he screamed. |
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She had turned on the headlights and was racing the engine, revving it higher and higher. He watched her thin body slam back against the seat as the car rocketed forward, the lights penetrating the blackness and illuminating the thing that was now freed. |
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It stood erect, directly in the path of the car. He knew now what she was doing. He watched in stunned silence. There was a sickening collision as the car plowed into it and continued on up and over the crest of the hill, spiraling out over the edge into the blackness and plunging out of sight. |
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The sickening inevitability of Theodore's world of logic returned. The sequence of events suddenly became wholly predictable. He knew exactly what would followthe sounds of tearing metal and shattering glass, repeated violent collisions with the jagged rocks at the base of the cliff, and finally the explosion, violent and final. |
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That was followed by the conflagration, a ball of flame in the nightmarish sky. |
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Theodore, numbed and terrified, staggered up the hill, seemingly oblivious to the threat of a confrontation with the specter. He peered |
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