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 Robert McCammon



THE COLLECTED STORIES
 Table of Contents


Nightcrawlers ........................................................................................................................................ 4

The Deep End ...................................................................................................................................... 16

Doom City ........................................................................................................................................... 26

The Night I Killed the King (with Paul Schulz) .................................................................................. 33

Night Calls the Green Falcon ............................................................................................................... 42

Something Passed By .......................................................................................................................... 67

Lizardman ........................................................................................................................................... 75

Haunted World ................................................................................................................................... 81

Eat Me .................................................................................................................................................. 91

Black Boots .......................................................................................................................................... 98

Beauty ................................................................................................................................................ 105

A Profile of Robert McCammon ....................................................................................................... 109




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Collection copyright ┬й 2003 by Robert McCammon
тАЬA Profile of Robert McCammonтАЭ Copyright ┬й 2003 by the British Fantasy Society
 NIGHTCRAWLERS

I

"Hard rain coming down," Cheryl said, and I nodded in agreement.
Through the diner's plate-glass windows, a dense curtain of rain flapped across the Gulf gas pumps and
continued across the parking lot. It hit Big Bob's with a force that made the glass rattle like uneasy bones. The red
neon sign that said BIG BOB'S! DIESEL FUEL! EATS! sat on top of a high steel pole above the diner so the truckers on
the interstate could see it. Out in the night, the red-tinted rain thrashed in torrents across my old pickup truck and
Cheryl's baby-blue Volkswagen.
"Well," I said, "I suppose that storm'll either wash some folks in off the interstate or we can just about hang it up."