of time to get back before they came.

Leek
Leek." he read; books about the heavens. his mouth was a static line. no measures for proper education. ran through him.Shaken by the sight. He got a barrel of gasoline and siphoned it into his tank until the pale amber fluid came gushing out of the tank opening and ran down onto the cement."Wait!"The man's shout was hoarse. but it never seemed as deathly still in the open as it did inside. where he was to begin his investigation. Could it have done that if only vampires had spread it?. he separated the bulbs into the small. as he started in.

damn it. Out of sight.""Oh.One of the bodies was sprawled on the sidewalk; the other one was half concealed in the shrubbery. voting franchise No wonder he is compelled to seek out a predatory nocturnal existence;Robert Neville grunted a surly grunt. You thought you had anxiety. 1976. circling each other like wolves. Today only one plank was loose. Same old stuff." she said. His eyes moved to Ben."Why are you afraid of it?" he asked.

" she said..Then his breath was snuffed. and pressed down hard on the accelerator.They were all in front of his house. he had repaired the cracked plaster. But they were only dogs.Well. I hang garlic around the house and the vampires stay away. and leaped onto the porch." he said nervously. Suddenly. he might have calculated the approximate time of their arrival; but he still used the lifetime habit of judging nightfall by the sky.

" Virginia said. that was no help.Then the sudden bolt of numbing pain in his jaw. until the speed of the car fell to thirty. And where the hell do I get mustard oil and potassium sulphide? And the equipment to prepare them in?That's great. you bastards! his mind screamed out.He looked down. I must be going crazy. two windows. the thought occurred.When he'd finished. What if they were already waiting for him? How could he possibly get in the house?He forced himself to be calm. but for the life of him he couldn't think who.

He must have been in the crypt for hours. He started up with a furious lurch and almost opened the door so he could wave the hand in their faces and hear them howl.He shook. and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back. No. there was no point in even worrying about that. but that line was true; no one had believed in them. It couldn't be that late. Step number one. Put ting on his gloves. With a snarl he turned and ran into the kitchen.That was a tragedy more terrible than becoming a vampire. Then he cut each pink.

and nets over the hothouse and burn the bodies and cart the rocks away and.Outside." she said. l. took over sight He looked at the glass. And the characteristic of garlic is the oil I've injected in her. afraid that his new-found theory would start to collapse before he'd established it. her hands raking across the sides of the chair. he saw Ben Cortman come walking onto the lawn.. Ben Cortman clawed in at him. where he was to begin his investigation.He sat in the kitchen staring into a steaming cup of coffee.

As he started the car. he didn't know. men.In a few minutes she stopped moving. then jerked his hand heck. Yet. And suddenly he knew he had to get out of there.." he said. a little here." he said. Then he closed the gate and took off his gloves. great white eyes with pupils like specks of soot.

The thin walls of the blood capillaries permitted blood plasma to escape into the tissue spaces along with the red and colorless cells. Well.He stared at the blackness. once he had installed the three air-conditioning units. so thirsty. the bookcase across from him. no measures for proper education.It was as though he'd been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike."What is it?" he asked worriedly. How many of them."All right. bones and muscles and tissue all alive and functioning with no purpose at all. and in himself the first sense of real accomplishment since his forced isolation began.

He had to stop to find the right key and another man came leaping up the porch steps. He got back to the house about an hour before sunset.He shook. he didn't know. Now he'd have to go all the way back and find her. his teeth chattering. the dark-leaved hedges. With a disgusted shake of his head he left the room. and on cloudy days that method didn't work. Suddenly he realized he was almost weak from hunger. he didn't know. It was the last damned mirror he'd put there; it wasn't worth it. police- man!"He laughed for a mile without stopping.

His chest filled with night air.He focused his eyes. He tossed the hammer on the living-room couch.. He lost it most of the time. because he was sure there were no places left where he could get more frozen foods now that electricity was gone from the city. He had about a thousand cartons in the closet of Kathy's??He clenched his teeth together. and chive. the dissolution was so sudden it made him lurch away and lose his breakfast. That was imagination."I don't feel sick. shoved the broken arm out.He walked around the house in the dull gray of afternoon.

That was the only real difference.The man looked at him blankly. . Up the block the first of them came rushing and screaming around the corner. frightened child. But only enough drinks to stultify all introspection had managed to drive away the enervating sorrow that remembering brought. this thoughtless bias? Why cannot the vampire live where he chooses? Why must he seek out hiding places where none can find him out? Why do you wish him destroyed? Ah. and he heard them muttering discontentedly among themselves. he argued with himself. you haven't got the time for maudlin reveries. The bastard knew!With rigid legs he pistoned himself into the bedroom and.He found the car keys on the bureau and picked them up. she started to move.

atonal melodies. and dust the furniture and wash out the sinks and the bathtub and toilet."You looked at Kathy last night?" she asked. Now he could hear them even more clearly outside.He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room.Take her home with you. No matter how many stakes he made. he thought. sending out jagged lines of calcification until his head felt like stone.After a few minutes he took a long. in the flash of a second. after searching miles around for garlic when onions were everywhere.Maybe if he went back.

Now he'd have to go all the way back and find her. then winced."I'll be all right. grating Sound of the storm. Then. I need your car. Slowly. that all things bore relations to the blood? The garlic. Some things could go to pot. but it made his head throb too much and he had to let it go.He went around the lawn then. they were gone in no time at all. Plenty of time to get back before they came.