How “Forbidden Worlds #02” begins
Every balloon from the first pages, as it is read aloud:
Forbidden worlds
Exploring the supernatural!
The mists of midnight
The next time fog creeps over the countryside like a living shroud, peer into its restless depths -- and dare to speculate on what it hides! But first be sure you're in the right frame of mind -- because the hulking haze may hover toward you like an endless trap -- and enfold you among the victims of the mists of midnight!
Late one night-- audrey-- something tells me you've had fun tonight!
It was a wonderful show, darling-- but i like this even better -- strolling around the spot where we had our first date!
What beats me is how we keep coming back to this quiet little road! Maybe that's what love is -- a first date that never ends!
Good heavens, neil, did you have to step aside -- and let that tree come between us? You know what that means -- it's bad luck!
It would have to be a pretty tough jinx to rock our little dreamboat! Gosh, honey-- i thought you got over this superstitious nonsense!
Nonsense? I happen to believe very firmly in those things -- and i don't like being ridiculed!
Look, audrey-- no matter what you believe in -- i don't see why it should become an issue!
Don't worry-- it won't! And if you don't mind-- i'll go home by myself!
Minutes later-- too lost in thought to notice the strange fog curling over the silent fields--
Maybe neil's right about my superstitions! It was silly of me to expect bad luck -- and then bring it about with a quarrel!
Suddenly-- from the thickening mist--
Whatever's wrong-- there's something queer about that voice! I know it's close-- and yet it sounds so faint and far away!
Then-- as a groping shape rears from the clammy billows--
What's the matter? Who are you?
For heaven's sake-- don't be afraid of me! No matter what i look like, i'm alive -- i'm human!
For just an instant-- audrey catches a glimpse of the white, haggard face peering from the mist--
They're coming-- they're all around us! Get me away from here -- don't let them drag me back into the mists!
In the next terrible moment, the white emptiness changes into cowled figures-- hemming in their anguished victim!
No-- no! Not again-- not back there!