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
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