"Charles L. Grant - In a Dark Dream" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Charles L)

Through the Looking-Glass,

With love

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There was sunlight and laughter

And moonlight and shadow;

While Sleep crooned with Screaming,

Love waltzed with the Dead.

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The dream when it comes ...

... the spectered shadow of a cloud crawling westward off the summit of
a dark forested hill, sliding down the slope where it deepens the
shadows and stains the bark and swings the leaves to a deep deathly
gray, causes birds to stir and huddle, a raccoon to hiss and snap, then
slips across the road and through trembling bushes to the surface of a
lake where ripples abruptly calm and reflections no longer matter; it
bulges; it shrinks; it moves to the opposite shore and through the trees
again, and the road, and up the blunt wedge of a high rock, pausing at
the edge, shifting slightly to one side, shifting again and sliding on,
filling the cracks with black, covering a hunched man with winter, and
taking the upward slope, leaving the black behind ...

the shadow of a cloud in a cloudless blue sky.

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The outcropping was massive on the side of the hill, and rose a straight
and full hundred feet above the road that followed the contours of the
lake. Even in the clear light, the morning's soft and warming light, the
rock was deep black, the leading edge of a prow, a petrified galleon