Holding the Light [PS Quickie] by Ramsey Campbell

FIRST EDITION - GOOD CONDITION

A CHAPBOOK STORY by Ramsey Campbell
CATEGORY Horror
PUBLICATION DATE 2011
COVER ART James Hannah
PAGES 16

EDITION Unsigned Chapbook  ISBN 978-1-848633-04-9

ABOUT THE BOOK 

As his cousin followed him into the Frugoplex lobby Tom saw two girls from school. Out of uniform and in startlingly short skirts they looked several years older. He hoped his leather jacket performed that trick for him, in contrast to the duffle coat Lucas was wearing. Since the girls were giggling at the cinema staff dressed as Halloween characters, he let them see him laugh too.

“Hey, Lezly,” he said in his deepest voice. “Hey, Dianne.”

“Don’t come near us if you’ve got a cold,” Lezly protested, waving a hand that was bony with rings in front of her face

“It’s just how boys his age talk,” Dianne said far too much like a sympathetic adult and blinked her sparkly purple eyelids. “Who’s your friend, Tom?”

“It’s my cousin Lucas.”

“Hey, Luke.”

Lezly said it too and held out her skull-ringed hand, at which Lucas stared as if it were an inappropriate present. “He’s like that,” Tom mumbled but refrained from pointing at his own head. “Don’t mind him.”

“Maybe he doesn’t want to give you his germs, Lezly.” To the boys Dianne said

“What are you going to see?”

“Vampire Dating Agency,” Lucas said before Tom could make a choice.