"Laymon, Richard - The Traveling Vampire Show" - читать интересную книгу автора (Laymon Richard)

It looked like this:

Come and see Valeria Gorgeous?! BegmlingI Lethall

This stunning beauty, born in the wilds of Transylvania. sleeps by day
in her coffin. By night she feeds on the blood, of strangers

See Valeria rise from the dead! "Watch as she stalks volunteers from
the audience! I Tremble as she sinks her teeth into their necksl
Scream as she sups on their blood! I Amazed and excited, I shook my
head and murmured "Wow" a time or two while I read the poster.

But things changed when I got toward the bottom. I felt a surge of
alarm, followed by a mixture of relief and disappointment.

Mostly relief. "Oh, man," I muttered, trying to sound dismayed. "What
a bummer."



bummer?" Rusty asked. "You outa your mind, man? We've got us a
traveling vampire show! A real live female vampire, right here in
Grandville! And it says she's gorgeous! See that? Gorgeous!
Beguiling A stunning beauty! And she's a vampire,r Look what it says!
She stalks volunteers from the audience and bites their necks! She
sups on their blood!"

"Bitchin'," Slim said.

"Might be bitchin' if we could cee her," I said, trying to seem gloomy
about the situation. "But there's no way we can get into a show like
that."

Eyes narrow, Rusty shook his head. "That's how come we're going over
there now."

"Oh," I said.

Sometimes, when Rusty came out with stuff like that, "Oh" was about the
best I could do.

"You know?" he asked.

"I guess so." I had no idea.

"We'll look the place over," Slim said. "Just see what we can see."
"Maybe we'll get to see her," Rusty said. He seemed pretty excited.
"Don't get your hopes up," Slim told him.

"We might," he insisted. "I mean, she's gotta be around. Somebody put