Doom of a different kind

[ladyofastolat]

I'm at work today, alone in the building. I've posted before about the strange noises from the roof, which I've explained away as rooks doing clog dancing. Well, a few minutes ago, there was an incredibly loud rhythmic metallic thumping, that grew louder and louder and more frenzied, and was followed by an explosion of corvid screaming, an almighty groaning sound from the whole building, and some claw-like scampering.

Now, I've seen l those videos of super intelligent crows, and I've also seen clips of clever squirrels on assault courses. All I can conclude is that the rooks and red squirrels from the neighbouring line of conifers have combined with the zombies from the nearby graveyard. What I heard was their final rally under their charismatic leader, after which they will depart to bring all of England under their dread rule. So if you don't hear from me again... Hold on. What's that scratching at the door? Must inve

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You haven't been letting them read du Maurier, have you?

[firin.livejournal.com]

Nicely posted; almost Lovecraftian in its finish, though potentially the words 'eldritch' or 'cylopodean horror' would need to make an appearance for that. Perhaps you should write it into a story for NaNoWriMo? :D If Pride and Prejudice can be done with zombies, then so can The Birds!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Chaucerhathblog (http://syndicated.livejournal.com/chaucerhathblog/42188.html) has already said that Geoffrey will be doing various ancient tales like that, eg "The Aeneid and Zombyes"

[firin.livejournal.com]

Hm...interesting. Aeneas loses poor old Creusa while fleeing Troy...and she follows him to Italy as an undead, resurfacing in time to eat half of his troops.

It has some mileage.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I was posting via my phone, and I'm not sure if predictive text could have coped with "cyclopodean." The works of Lovecraft would have been very different had the various traumatised witnesses had to report the hideous things they saw via text message. :-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

OMG its a gr8 old 1!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

LOL!