| Show The mind of the haunted professor students should pay attention r C VOLK HAS AS your professor been at all peculiar lately lately lately late late- ly Does this normally logical lecturer suddenly grip the desk while talking about a subject say a subject like devils demons and-demons Have you spotted any mysterious messages on the blackboard Or heard any cryptic allusions al allusions allusions al- al to hats or cats or or- bats More ominously is your professor writ writing ng a paper for publication James Lowry professor of ethnology at Colle College College Col Col- le lege e does does' just that and his i o 11 C life abruptly becomes a garish gory nightmare The protagonist of L. L Ron Hubbards Hubbard's mesmerizing horror novel Fear Lowry writes a paper harshly refuting the existence existence existence ex ex- of devils and demons After paying a subsequent vi visit it to a fellow professor he discovers discovers discovers dis dis- with suddenness suddenness suddenness sud sud- covers frightening denness that he has lost four hours of his life And his hat Later the stairway to his house transforms into an endless passage into the bowels of the earth where apparitions bre breathe the strange alliterative messages into the Ot l-Ot t t C. C OO night Bats ts are bats and rats are rats and cats are hats and there is no soup deep enough to drown Few of his students notice the odd message scrawled across his blackboard You are the entity No one considers it strange when he impulsively flings an eraser across the room And despite the tell tale signs of things gone menacingly menacingly menacingly nac me-nac- awry no one sees what Lowry must contend with when not in the classroom classroom classroom class class- room a formless place of night without day of strange figures out of time of graves and cold-blooded cold murder The world Lowry enters is isone isone isone one of the most terrifying in inthe inthe inthe the whole long catalogue of horror fiction Author Stephen King says If youve you've never read Fear I urge you todo to todo todo do so This is one of the really really good ones Finish it and you'll probably keep a closer ey eye on your professor for both of you iU a u N 1 a t- t tC C u I 4 |
