Blackwater Val
Richard noticed something else.
In his fall, Sallow Man had lost his bucket hat. And in the dim light from a nearby streetlamp, gaping through Mr. Deadmond’s opera glasses (as the old man referred to them), Richard got a good long look at him. Too long, he would later muse on many an occasion to come, in midnight retrospect. The pale man’s head was huge, too large for his thin body, like his clothing. It was nearly twice the size a normal human head should be—incredibly—and had no visible hair on it at all. It glistened in the rain, looking like an enormous, bleached honeydew melon that was close to exploding.
Squash, anybody? Richard had thought crazily at the time. Get your nice, ripe squa
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