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Isl\u0131k solarak t\u00fckendi.<\/p>\n
Griswell, Branner’\u0131n hemen ayaklar\u0131n\u0131n alt\u0131ndaki basama\u011f\u0131n g\u0131c\u0131rdad\u0131\u011f\u0131n\u0131 duydu. \u015eimdi yukardaki hole ula\u015fm\u0131\u015ft\u0131, \u00e7\u00fcnk\u00fc Griswell ad\u0131mlar\u0131n\u0131n ilerledi\u011fini duyuyordu. Aniden ad\u0131mlar durdu ve sanki gece de nefesini tuttu. Korkun\u00e7 bir \u00e7\u0131\u011fl\u0131k b\u00fct\u00fcn s\u00fck\u00fbneti yard\u0131, bir feryat yank\u0131land\u0131 Griswell hemen harekete ge\u00e7ti. Onu oraya \u00e7ivileyen fel\u00e7 bir anda yok oluverdi. Kap\u0131ya do\u011fru bir ad\u0131m at\u0131p kendini kontrol etti. Ad\u0131mlar yineledi. Branner geri d\u00f6n\u00fcyordu.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Ko\u015fmuyordu. Hatta ad\u0131mlar daha a\u011f\u0131r ve dikkatli at\u0131lmaya ba\u015flam\u0131\u015ft\u0131. \u015eimdi basamaklar tekrar g\u0131c\u0131rd\u0131yordu. Korkulu\u011fun \u00fczerinde gezinen bir el ay \u0131\u015f\u0131\u011f\u0131yla belirdi, sonra bir di\u011feri ve Griswell’i korkun\u00e7 bir titreme ald\u0131, di\u011fer elin bir balta tuttu\u011funu g\u00f6rd\u00fc, kapkara bir balta. Merdivenden inen Branner m\u0131yd\u0131?<\/p>\n
Evet!<\/p>\n
Siluet ay \u0131\u015f\u0131\u011f\u0131na do\u011fru ilerledi, Griswell bu silueti tan\u0131yordu. Branner’\u0131n surat\u0131n\u0131 g\u00f6rd\u00fc, Griswell’in dudaklar\u0131ndan bir feryat patlad\u0131. Branner’\u0131n surat\u0131 bir ceset gibi bembeyazd\u0131, koyu kan a\u015fa\u011f\u0131 do\u011fru iniyordu, g\u00f6zleri donuk ve kilitlenmi\u015fti kafas\u0131n\u0131n \u00fcst\u00fcndeki derin yar\u0131ktan kan s\u00fcz\u00fcl\u00fcyordu!<\/p>\n
Griswell o lanetli evden nas\u0131l \u00e7\u0131kt\u0131\u011f\u0131n\u0131 asla hat\u0131rlayamad\u0131. Daha sonra \u00e7\u0131lg\u0131n ve \u015fa\u015fk\u0131n bir etki alt\u0131nda \u00f6r\u00fcmcek a\u011flar\u0131yla dolu pencereye kadar yolu yararak ge\u00e7erken, k\u00f6r gibi t\u00f6kezleyerek otla bo\u011fulmu\u015f bah\u00e7eye dald\u0131, \u00e7\u0131lg\u0131na d\u00f6nen korkusuyla sa\u00e7mal\u0131yordu. Siyah \u00e7amdan duvarlar\u0131 g\u00f6rd\u00fc, ne akl\u0131n ne de mant\u0131\u011f\u0131n oldu\u011fu yerde ay kan k\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131s\u0131 bir sisin i\u00e7inde y\u00fcz\u00fcyordu. Yolun yan\u0131ndaki arabay\u0131 g\u00f6r\u00fcnce bir par\u00e7a olsun akl\u0131 geri d\u00f6nd\u00fc. Ans\u0131z\u0131n \u00e7\u0131ld\u0131ran bu d\u00fcnyada s\u0131radan ger\u00e7ekli\u011fi yans\u0131tan tek \u015fey nesneydi ama daha kap\u0131ya varmadan keskin bir \u00e7\u0131nlama kulaklar\u0131nda belirdi, zikzak \u00e7izerek sarkan ve s\u00fcr\u00fcc\u00fc koltu\u011fundan pul pul k\u0131vr\u0131lan form ona do\u011fru \u0131sl\u0131k gibi t\u0131slay\u0131nca geriledi, ay \u0131\u015f\u0131\u011f\u0131n\u0131n alt\u0131nda \u00e7atal dilini f\u0131rlat\u0131yordu. K\u00e2bustan ka\u00e7an bir adam gibi korku h\u0131\u00e7k\u0131r\u0131klar\u0131yla yola f\u0131rlad\u0131. Ama\u00e7s\u0131zca ve sebepsizce ka\u00e7\u0131yordu. Uyu\u015fmu\u015f beyni mant\u0131kl\u0131 d\u00fc\u015f\u00fcnemiyordu. Sadece k\u00f6r ilkel d\u00fcrt\u00fcs\u00fc ka\u00e7-ka\u00e7’a itaat etti, ta ki yorgun d\u00fc\u015fene kadar. Siyah \u00e7amdan duvarlar yan\u0131ndan sonsuzlu\u011fa ak\u0131yordu bu y\u00fczden sanki hi\u00e7bir kurtulu\u015fu yokmu\u015f gibi bir alg\u0131 taraf\u0131ndan ele ge\u00e7irildi. Ama \u015fu anda hemen arkas\u0131ndan gelen ac\u0131mas\u0131z ve istikrarl\u0131 pat pat sesleri deh\u015fetini bir sisi yarar gibi delip ge\u00e7mekteydi. Kafas\u0131n\u0131 d\u00f6nd\u00fcrd\u00fc\u011f\u00fcnde arkas\u0131ndan ko\u015fan bir \u015fey g\u00f6rd\u00fc, kurt mu k\u00f6pek mi, hangisi oldu\u011funa karar veremedi ama g\u00f6zleri ye\u015fil ate\u015f toplar\u0131 gibi par\u0131ld\u0131yordu.<\/p>\n\t
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The whistling sank to a lower note, died out. Griswell heard the stairs creaking under Branner’s measured tread. Now he had reached the hallway above, for Griswell heard the clump of his feet moving along it. Suddenly the footfalls halted, and the whole night seemed to hold its breath. Then an awful scream split the stillness, and Griswell started up, echoing the cry. The strange paralysis that had held him was broken. He took a step toward the door, then checked himself. The footfalls were resumed. Branner was coming back. He was not running. The tread was even more deliberate and measured than before. Now the stairs began to creak again. A groping hand, moving along the balustrade, came into the bar of moonlight; then another, and a ghastly thrill went through Griswell as he saw that the other hand gripped a hatchet-a hatchet which dripped blackly. Was that Branner who was coming down that stair?<\/p>\n
Yes! <\/p>\n
The figure had moved into the bar of moonlight now, and Griswell recognized it. Then he saw Branner’s face, and a shriek burst from Griswell’s lips. Branner’s face was bloodless, corpse-like; gouts of blood dripped darkly down it; his eyes were glassy and set, and blood oozed from the great gash which cleft the crown of his head! <\/p>\n
Griswell never remembered exactly how he got out of that accursed house. Afterward he retained a mad, confused impression of smashing his way through a dusty cobwebbed window, of stumbling blindly across the weed-choked lawn, gibbering his frantic horror. He saw the black wall of the pines, and the moon floating in a blood-red mist in which there was neither sanity nor reason. Some shred of sanity returned to him as he saw the automobile beside the road. In a world gone suddenly mad, that was an object reflecting prosaic reality; but even as he reached for the door, a dry chilling whir sounded in his ears, and he recoiled from the swaying undulating shape that arched up from its scaly coils on the driver’s seat and hissed sibilantly at him, darting a forked tongue in the moonlight.<\/p>\n
With a sob of horror he turned and fled down the road, as a man runs in a nightmare. He ran without purpose or reason. His numbed brain was incapable of conscious thought. He merely obeyed the blind primitive urge to run-run-run until he fell exhausted. The black walls of the pines flowed endlessly past him; so he was seized with the illusion that he was getting nowhere. But presently a sound penetrated the fog of his terror-the steady, inexorable patter of feet behind him. Turning his head, he saw something loping after him-wolf or dog, he could not tell which, but its eyes glowed like balls of green fire.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Korku hikayemizin \u00fc\u00e7\u00fcnc\u00fc b\u00f6l\u00fcm\u00fc sizlerle…","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,140],"tags":[156,127],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herkafadanses.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herkafadanses.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herkafadanses.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herkafadanses.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herkafadanses.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/herkafadanses.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herkafadanses.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herkafadanses.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herkafadanses.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herkafadanses.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}