A screenplay sketch - Pablo Martínez Burkett

Texto en español en El Eclipse de Gyllene Draken: "Un boceto de guión".

Traducido al inglés por Violeta Balián y Pablo Martínez Burkett

 

The being that I had with me in the seat was no longer my 

lifetime friend. It was a monstrous creature that seemed to come 

from sidereal space and radiated unknown and unhealthy forces.

H. P. Lovercraft – The lurker at the threshold

FROM A NOTEBOOK of director Jack Arnold: poultry and other farm animals begin to disappear in a village of Louisiana. A few weeks later, pigs and cows meet the same fate. Some children say they saw a misshapen being wandering through the marshes. It does not take much to make him responsible for the misfortune. Locals prepare and arm hunting parties. Boats ply the waterways. Torches illuminate the swamps. But neither the hounds are able to trace the abominable hunchback. And the incident is attributed to a juvenile prank. Calm seems to return for a while but suddenly an invasion of mosquitoes attack humans and beasts. People lose their pets. First was old Mc Donald’s guide dog. Later, "Precious", the poodle that belonged to Jamie Gumb, the dressmaker. Even the orphans Flora and Miles’ guinea pig vanishes. Calamities do not cease. Fish, frogs and alligators abandon channels and marshes. Rev. O'Hara announces the imminence of the Second Coming. People experience severe behavioral disorders and many bloody events occur. Sheriff John T. Chance is overwhelmed. The Federal government sends in the National Guard. They implement a curfew and a rigorous cord 5 miles around. All pacification attempts fail while news of similar events in Tierra del Fuego, Uganda, Siberia and Canberra keep on coming. Villagers engage in acts of cannibalism. Professor Zellaby believes he’s discovered a vaccine but time is short because Mayor Schaeffer is determined to use a laser cannon to get rid of the so-called "Plague of Torrance Town." Kay Lawrence, the beauty queen volunteers to experiment the serum. The test is successful, and the few survivors advance to the barricades. Soldiers give a warning and then open fire to eradicate the danger of contagion. An unusual lightning illuminates the sky. Inside a flying saucer, a deformed being takes notes: "wildlife fit for consumption but mosquitoes transmit our virus to indigenous species. Demographic catastrophe is ahead".

Publicado en El Eclipse de Gyllene Draken

Pablo Martínez Burkett

Secret weapons of the third Reich - Pablo Martínez Burkett

Texto en español en El Eclipse de Gyllene Draken: "Las armas sectreas del III Reich"
 

Traducido al inglés por Violeta Balián y Pablo Martínez Burkett

Records were deliberately erased. All evidence, discredited. And the existence of the Alpenfestung, the Third Reich´s national redoubt in the Bavarian Alps — where gold and secret weapons were stored —denied and its defense entrusted to elite troops. The general consensus had it that this was World War II´s best hoax; another trick of Joseph Goebbels. All through the years, they acquiesced the conspiracy theorists would hatch their fables. The truth, however, was quite different. In April 1945, the fortress was found by a Russian patrol. Streaks of blood stained the rugged topography. They encountered unthinkable horrors and nights filled with cries, shots, tears, and macabre laughter. Their pleas for aid, tanks, artillery and troops exhausted the radio waves for the ferocity of the Waffen Grenadier Division der SS Rumänische led by the SS-Standartenführer from Transylvania was overwhelming. And by all accounts immune to bullets, swords, and bayonets unless the wound was made right into their heart or were decapitated. Thus, we, the attackers desisted and retreated amidst our many dead, victims of fatal bites. Meanwhile, in the nearby village, we tortured anyone not willing to provide us with information. Finally, a shepherd confessed we were facing a band of fanatical volunteers turned recently into vampires as a result of experiments led by Dr. Mengele himself who administered them their commander´s bite and made them insatiable monsters. Shipments of Jews, gypsies and prisoners of war served as sustenance. When a comrade from Wallachia gave us a remedy, the chaplain proceeded to turn the contents of all deposits and canteens into holy water. Next, he sanctified steel and ammunition and, in a hurry, forged crucifixes and other pious symbols. The assault was brutal. The orders were to take as many prisoners as possible. Ever since, I have been in command of a phantom division of the Red Army which has been ignored by all the organization charts. And because our own scientists conducted an abundance of experiments, we have been waiting now for over forty years, ready to extinguish this decadent capitalism, anxious to fill ourselves with their bourgeois blood. 

Publicado en El Eclipse de Gyllene Draken

Pablo Martínez Burkett