Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast
He opened his arms, his hands, with the fingers that were too long, opening and flexing like greedy paws.
Somewhere behind the walls, the dead woke, responding to the silent tune of Peabody the ghoulish Pied Piper. Beneath her feet, under the boards, the dead stretched. And above her, somewhere, she could hear the quiet dead reach to find and grip and hold.
Peabody’s fingers grew longer, the arms grew longer. From where he stood, this Peabody’s reach seemed inescapable, spanning wall to wall, the fingers much too long, the palms larger than her biggest serving platter or frying pan.
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