With that, he glided into his parlor, an airy room with slowly turning ceiling fans, and stood by a book case. And he had described a village deep in Haiti where all of the inhabitants were deformed. That his cook, a haughty woman who had kept us supplied with tasty hors-d'ouevres for the past hours, had fed her former employer deadly mushrooms and was wanted for murder. How at night the ghost crabs skittered through his garden. "You don't believe me?"ĭuring the course of the afternoon he had told me of many strange things. And deservedly so." He regarded me with sharp black eyes. Two men plodded on the street below one hesitated and looked up at us, staring without expression, and Monsieur commented, "Those men are zombies.
We were tasting different kinds of rum poured over ice. He sat on the porch of his home, a grand, columned mansion that suggested a cross between a plantation home and a New Orleans house. He was a former Haitian banker who lived in Galveston. Monsieur was tall and slender, about eighty, white-haired, dapper, very dark, the color of old varnish. LI FAN'S CAMERA - Johnny Corbett discovers that sometimes crime not only doesn't pay, it can unlock an unfathomable surprise.īAEL STUMPE - When Bael meets his father after thirteen years, he enters the world of madness. THE NIGHTRIDER'S SONG - Doctor Vodun and The Mambo Sisters find out loose lips can sometimes do more than sink ships when their rock group heads for the next gig. THE GENEALOGIST - When Harry Poindexter sets out to learn about his ancestors, he has no idea what malevolent forces he will unleash. unless one of them practiced the dark arts of Haiti. RUM AND HORS-D'OEUVRES - One would hardly think two bankers relaxing on a porch would attract the forces of evil. where indistinct shapes in the dark and bumps in the night are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl. Richard Ferguson has prepared five of his most unsettling short pieces - bizarre tales of dark doing and unthinkable acts where horror and madness take on weird, unearthly forms.
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