（外文电子版资料）Charles L. Grant - An Image in Twisted Silver.pdf

An Image in Twisted Silver Charles L. Grant The annual World Fantasy Convention, which moves about from state to state, occasionally from country to country, issues each year a program book of consciously artistic value, with stories, essays, and artwork by leading lights. Charles L. Grants tale is taken from the 1986 program book, the year he was guest of honor, illustrated by that years artist GoH Jeff Potter. Charles is one of our best-selling horror novelists and an advocate of quiet horror, as exemplified in his series of Shadows anthologies. Hes himself a master of the short form, as every reader of horror well knows. Hes also active in the small presses, having contributed to Whispers, Fantasy Macabre, Fantasy Tales, Fantasy Book, Weirdbook, Shayol, Midnight Sun, and others. Author of over one hundred short tales, there are many, like An Image in Twisted Silver, that have not yet been collected. Robert locked the bathroom door when Joann began screaming. He leaned against it and closed his eyes, felt the sweat on his brow, felt the damp cold under his arms, and felt the heel of his left foot tap rhythmically on the floor. In time to his wifes voice. Faster, now slower, now faster again when she realized what hed done and threw something against the wall. His words were garbled, if words they were at all, and he stopped trying to give them meaning -- the sound of her was enough, the anger and the hatred and the overwhelming despair that had begun in her pale eyes when he told her he was going to quit the firm, that traveled in a rippling crescent from one cheek to the other, that settled around her mouth as her tongue licked her lips, as the lips began to tremble while the tears began to well, as her teeth clacked together as if she were freezing. The sound of it beginning as a growl in her throat, pitc