"Hallucination in Hong Kong" teaser - growl of worms in egg-slimed earth
Teaser for the video-book of Rohan Quines novella "Hallucination in Hong Kong" - teaser 2(vii) "growl of worms in egg-slimed earth". // The music changed. The horse slowed, came to rest and dropped us on a sombre square of grass, all enclosed in a wall of gateless hedges. Turning, the horse seemed to frown at us ambiguously, reared its head and snorted, and fled into the dusk above the foliage. The grass was stiff and dry between my fingers. [...] In the high dense hedge to my left, a glow of shadows turning red as if an unseen sunset were spreading off horizons out beyond, where I knew the mountains rose to bite the air. A glass-coloured planet left its teeth-marks on the twilight overhead, its sudden sight producing that uneasy thrill I felt when I first saw the man in the moon. Round it hung a livid sky, ill, stagnant, dying, seeping out a sickly radiance. A faint blackish light full of bits of floating matter cast a nauseating dullness on the colours round about: Claustrophobia crept around the marches of the field - snuffled through the hedges - pulled them nearer me, pretending not to realise it was noticed. Once again, dark silence... Or was it? Had I heard a noise behind me? I turned; for the first time noticed, in a section of the hedge that seemed to rustle as with hidden wings, a cave; wheeled to face it then, and froze. Dark-bodied meat-flies buzzed in a stream from the cave mouth, collected and danced in the air. It seemed that voices soft as thunder sounded far below: grave chthonic bells, fiery harmonies, and muttered incantations echoed dead and harsh in deaf and timeless labyrinths of stone ... then they vanished, leaving nothing but the buzzing of the meat-flies, swelling now in gouts. - No, there was more. From the coolness of the cave depths, a noise from a bad dream; a hum, corroding sanity as acid eats a walnut. Gulps, drips, squeals and glutinous dread, growl of worms in egg-slimed earth... I grabbed my companion and shook him, but he slept.