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The Phantom of the Opera. Two eyes blaze in the darkness like candles flickering inside a skull. Flesh hangs from the skull in soggy clumps. Black bags hang from the eyes like evil growths. The nose is two wormy holes. The ragged lips reveal a clutter of dirty tusks. And...
Antonius Block, a disillusioned knight, returns from the Crusades with his cynical squire just as the bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forstall his...
The Wax Boom, by George Mandel. A troop of U.S. cavalrymen desperately search for wax to make a light in a bomb-crushed cellar, but the darkness of death inevitably comes.
A flight of 30 American-piloted helicopters flapped into the pre-dawn darkness last week, carrying 1,000 Vietnamese troops west of Saigon to the steamy, swampy Plain of Reeds for an assault on a Communist Viet Cong stronghold. By Vietnamese count, 99 Red guerrillas were killed or captured, along...
So much is fine storytelling; the remainder is an ironist's art. The viewpoint abruptly shifts to that of the new men. In their log boats, they are fleeing in panic from the terrors of the dark forests and the strange, hairy creatures whom they had, all unwittingly, already...