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Men who can handle
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Dear Dee 'n'Jav:

Bud ihudud tqyg aluli fun owduv
id!-Edz.

Dear MM,
"Urm" was incredible! Druillet
is.in my opinion, the most talented
artwise.even though his colors could
take a longer time. All of your strips
are terrificand imaginative, espe-
"1996." which takes me about
cially
an hour lo read each time!
Sam Powell
Brooklyn. N.Y.

Dear Sam,

Dear Editors.
Super cover on the June issue it's
nice to see a woman who isn't lying

on her back with a) fear, b) anticipa-

tion,ore) both in her eyes. However.
I'm not writing to argue with you
about sexist content. I'm more inter-
ested in the artwork, anyway. (But
here's a cheer for Bob Aull's rape
scene-a Bronx one.)
Please give us mo Moebius.
!

more Barbarella. and nnore Kofoed.

Finally, your June i> ;uewa.sma(/c
when saw page 24. "Technician
1

Visions" and have something in

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common-although it isn't our

measurements.
If you could get HM
past the cen-
sors, you could clean up here in
Japan. Some of my Japanese co-
workers go crazy when I leave the
latest issue in the break-room.
Misty I. Bastian
Kadena AI'B. Okinawa
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CONTENTS Chain Mail,

...Perhaps...,
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4
The New Tales of the Arabian Nights, Sindbad in the Land of Jinn, by Corben and Strnad, 5

Exterminator 17, by Bilal, 9

Orion, by Morrow, 24
Off-Season, by Zha and Claveloux, 32
Gail, by Druillet, 40
Blob, by Druillet, 45
Dawn of the Dead, by George Romero and Susanna Sparrow, 48
Rochberny, by Rochbemy, 53
One Foot in Eden, by Wheatley, 54
The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius, by Moebius, 63
Shattered Like a Glass Goblin, by Ellison and Stout, 66
Heilman, by Voss, 77
So Beautiful and So Dangerous, by McKie, 85
Curious Thing, by Bissette, 93
Front cover by Ron Walotsky
Back cover by Doug Beekman
"Shattered Like a Glass Goblin." the graphic story version, copyright 1978, by Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Original story copyright*
1968, by Harlan Ellison.
"Sindbad in the Land of Jinn," trom The New Tales of the Arabian Nights, copyright 1978. by Richard Corben and Jan Strnad.
"Orion," copyright 1 978, by Gray Morrow.
"Rochberny," copyright* 1978, by Jacques Rochberny.
"One Foot in Eden," copyrights 1978. by Mark Wheatley.
"Curious Thing," copyright 1978, by Stephen Bissette.
"So Beautiful and So Dangerous," copyright @ 1 978, by Angus McKie. Represented by Young Artists, London, England.
"Exterminator 17." by Bilal, "Oft-Season," by Zha and Claveloux, "Gail," by Druillet, "The Garage," by Moebius, and "Heilman," by Voss are all
from Metal Hurlant, copyright 1976, 1977, 1978. Metal Hurlant is published by L.F. Editions. Les Humanoides Associes. Paris. Reprinted by
permission.
Front cover, copyright 1978, by Ron Walotsky.
Back cover, copyright 1978, by Douglas Beekman.

Editors: Sean Kdly, Valerie Merchant Design Director: Peter Kit in man An Director: John Workman
Copy Editor: Susan Devins Managing Editor: Julie Simmons Circulation Director: George S. Agoglia, Sr.
Production Manager: George Agoglia. Jr. Publishi ng Directors: Matty Simmons and Leonard Mogel
An Assistant: Bill Workman Publisher: Richard B. Barthelmes Advertising Manager: Colin Wight

Art Assistant: Joey Green

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 ...PERHAPS...

In this month when the dead arise &

walk around in their bones, & reli-

gious services are conducted back-

ward with black turnips for munchies.
& toads see eye to eye with punkins.
we being you a suitably macabre edi-
tion of Heavy Metal.

Azombiejamboreefrom Dawn of the

Dead, the flick that should do for
shopping malls what Great White
Bruce did for beach parties; illumi-
nated fiction bv Mark Wheatley (new
to our pages) that tells you perhaps
more than you wished to know about
dragons' libidos; and an illustrated
version of Harlan Ellison's classic
nail-biter. Shattered Like a Glass
Goblin. (Advice to those of you who
subscribe to the Braille version of
HM do not read this issue in the
dark.)

We are pleased to introduce the

amazing Angus McKie. whose story.
"So Beautiful and So Dangerous,"
begins within. A. McK. lives, it seems,
in England, and no one there has told
him that comics don't have to be writ-
ten and drawn as well as this. So we
can count on seven more stunning
chapters, if he doesn't find out.

We also bring you

sodes of "Exterminator 17," a collab-
oration between Metal Hurlant editor
the first of 8 epi- 111;
a deckof Tarot cards with which to Seems someone saw
'

MS
[

fit to run the

play and always, always lose. last page first, white type in black,
J. P. Dionnet & artist Enki Bilal. It
black type in white, and so forth. For
concerns, among other things, un-
Heavy apology to Harlan Ellison, the correct pagination, plus a host of
dead androids, & stands out as Real- other illustrated Ellison stories by
Byron Preiss Visual Publications, and
Thing Science Fiction among these Steranko. Reese, and Shattered'?, own
Baronet Publishing for the indignities
pages full of off-the-wall variations. coupon ad The
heaped upon their version of Ellison's Bill Stout, there's a for
Next month, we will present you with classic Croatoan in our last issue. Illustrated Harlan Ellison in this issue.

Chairman Matty Simmons President Leonard Mogel

Sr Vice-President. Circulation George S. Agog lis
Vice President, Finance Chariot Schneider
Vice-President. Creative Protects Sean Kelly
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 lion corridor and moved quickly down the hall toward the mainte-
nance office.
As they left the balcony, a Zombie siaggercd oul of one of the
open stores several yards away from where they had heen Standing.
It was followed by a second creature, a female without an arm.

Steadily, menacingly, they moved along the balcony toward the

open corridor.
In the maintenance office, the troopers compared the keys
against the coded map on the wall,
""Seventy-two.. U and D." Roger called out as he pored over the
.

map. "Here it is...."

He and Peter checked the keys and Peter found the correspond-
ing numbers.
"Here," he said, holding it out toward Roger,
"Let's hope it's right."
"Look here." Peter said, pointing to the map. "These nun, hers
must all be locks. Front, side, back outside, must be like loading
docks. But what are these?"
He pointed to several numbered spots.which seemed to be within
the big Porter's department store that they were studying.
"Washroom?" Roger guessed. "Equipment...) dunno..."
While Peter still stared at the map. Roger moved off toward the
electrical control panel.
"I guess these gotta he the gates." Peter surmised.
Roger wandered around the room cheerfully. He noted some-
thing on the control panel with a smile and turned toward Peter.
"How about a little music?"
"What?" Peter asked, totally taken back by the frivolity of the
statement.
The big trooper moved up behind his blond partner. One of the
controls on the panel was marked MUSIC TAPE. The master
switch was in the oil' position. Another switch was marked E-'LOOR
EXHIBITS and of others were marked ESCALATORS.
a series
There were dozens of master switches. which were all in the off
mode.
"Power switches." Peter said to himself.
"The r nake lid
practically.
'"Hit 'em all." Peter said magnanimously. "M ight as well have
power in everything. We might need it."
With a gleam in his eve. Roger hit all the switches one at a lime.
Throughout the mall' the dull, droning sound of Muzak poured
oul through the loudspeakers.
Upstairs, the curious sound reached a startled Fran. She snapped
lire, but she couldn't stop her hands
the rifle into her hands, ready to
from shaking. She had been standing, one ear cocked 10 the strange
music below, just inside the storage area. Now she stepped into the
firestair and tried to see through the darkness. The sounds of the
insipid music drifted up toward her.
"Stephen." she cried, leanins; into the storage area again.
"Stephen!"
His mind still fuz/.y irom his long-needed rest. Steve roused
himself. At first he thought he had been dreaming about the music

DAWN "Do you believe the dead are returning to life and attacking the
living?" Dr. Foster asked pointedly. The power of his words over the
airways sent a shock wave throughout (he entire newsroom. 'I hey
had been reading those words all day-bul to hear them- it gave
them a new solidarity, a new reality.
(which sounded.unbelievably.just like his dentist's office). and the
frantic call of l'ran"s. He opened his eyes and for a moment he
couldn't place the big. cold
in.
room tilled' with cartons that he was
Then he remembered and jumped up to find Fran.
He found herjust inside the storage area, hereyes straining in the

OF THE The two

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Roger s
darkness, the
comparison
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id the big rille. and
led her into the larger
she was shuddering with fear. Steve
room and closed

rubbing his eyes. ""What the hell is going on around here?"

the door.
"Where the hell are those guys?" he asked, slill half-asleep and

DEAD wonder.
"F-at eity. brother.
"We
"They prob'ly have

Ai ihis point, the

How we
get into ihe department Mores
their own
"Let's cheek those keys." Peter suggesied.
gonna work it?"

two troopers had

up here." Roger
escalators inside."

a narrow-minded oh
Fran had calmed down sufficiently to try to explain what bad
transpired since Steve fell asleep.
"You mean they're actually going to raid the department store?
What do they expect to do with the stuff from there?"
"That"sjustii."she told him. a look of fear in her eyes. "It's as if
they've lostall perspective. We just wanted to stop here for some
by George Romero get as many supplies as possible. No one stopped to thi food and rest, or so that's what thought. But they act like they're on
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 Steve reached over and pulled Fran close to him.
""Don't worry." he told her in a voice thai he hoped sounded
calm. "They" re not that crazy."
"'Then what are we going to do? They said if they didn't eome
hack to leave without them. ..how long should we wail...."
She collapsed in a heap, crying and shaking at the same time.
All Steve could do was hold her to him lightly. He knew that if he
tried to explain anything, he could break down as well.
important raid.
All that was missing was the blare of the trumpets as Roger and
Peter charged into battle. The enemy wandered around the first
floor, attracted by the sound but confused by the sudden intrusion
of the noise into their quiet domain. In misguided, staggering
strides, they walked this way and that, glazed, vacant eyes passing
by the stores and shops wilh their glittering array of goodies.
Several ofthe Zombies walked toward the escalator, which n its i

Meanwhile, on the lirst floor of the mall, it looked as if a giant dormant state had been easy to negotiate. But now. ihe moving
hand had turned on its own special mechanical toy. Only it wasn't a escalators tossed the Zombies this way and that. Some of them tried
toy it was an entire shopping center. The automobile turntable going up the down escalator, while those few creatures who moved
started spinning; the great escalators began to move up and down. onto the up escalator fell against each other from the movement.
Two of the living dead, caught just starling up a stalled escalator, They seemed like tumbling pins in a howling alley.
fell and rolled down as the mechanical steps began to move. One of the Zombies who fell on the escalator was carried upward
As if it were a carnival come alive, lights blinked on the exhibits, despite its awkward position. Another managed to keep its balance
mechanical window displays began their robot-like motions. The holding onto the handrail.
Zombies, bothered by the Mu/.ak. wandered about the floor in And unbeknownst to Roger and Peter, several creatures had
increased confusion. Some of them swatted ineffectually at the begun to move up (he step of a stationary stairway that ran from
moving exhibits the first to the second floor and that was located at a point al the
Disturbed by the movement, the tropical birds housed in the other end of the mall from the administration offices.
woke up. chirping and squawking for their
floor-to-ceiling cages Meanwhile, a sweating, nervous Steve was cautiously making his
feed. way down Ihe steps of the firestair. His rifle ready, his palms
In a pel shop, puppies and kitlens in a window display whined dripping, he tried to control his jittery nerves. Fran looked anx-
and scrambled over one another in fright at the noise, the motion, iously from the lop landing.
and the tottering creatures. Several hundred yards away, Roger and Peter were barreling
All ihat was missing was the real-life action of human shoppers. toward the huge gate dial locked off the entrance to Porter's. The
On one of the floor exhibits, a rear-projection movie started. (wo troopers came to a crashing halt. Four or five Zombies were
A narrator spoke in a friendly voice: '"...and for a price that staggering their way down a side concourse toward the troopers.
anyone can afford, you can live in these luxurious new homes by They were about three hundred feet away
Brandon. Fully electric, central air..." Roger kept his rifle leveled off in the direction of the creatures
The newly distracted Zombies started strutting around at a while Peter tried the lock at the middle of the big roll gate.
quicker pace, bumping into each other and Ihe moving displays. Beads of perspiration formed on his forehead as he fumbled with
Some tried to return the way thej came in, but only bounced offthe the key for a moment until he finally found the proper one. When it
glass door. The one who had been circling endlessly had fallen sunk in with a click into the receptacle that was right al the floor and
down and his head was wedged between the ground and the door, Ihe tumbler turned successfully, Peter sighed in relief.
preventing anyone else from entering or leaving. "All right!" he yelled to his friend.
In the maintenance office, the troopers readied themselves for Creeping toward them, however, was the creature who had
their raid. Peler secured the vital key ring to his utility bell and they fallen on the escalator. His ghoulish companion, the one who was
moved out. able (o ride the whole way without falling, was also approaching
Roger's mind was a million miles away as he moved through the the two unsuspecting troopers.
door into the corridor. He was still light-headed from the thought Suddenly, to Roger's surprise, the head ofthe standing Zombie
of all those wonderful goodies wailing for him downstairs. He was became visible from Roger's perspective. He raised his gun and
totally unprepared for his head-on meeting with one of the Zom- aimed for the creature's forehead.
bies from the balcony. Startled, he ducked back into the room. The Peter tried to lift the roll gale but it wouldn't move. It was still
Zombie, blindly reaching oul with clinched hands, rounded the locked.
corner and appeared in the doorway. With precision accuracy. "You bastard," Peler screamed in frustration.
Peter raised his gun and fired (wo shots cleanly through the crea- "Whal?" Roger asked, his attention focused on the approaching
ture's head. ghouls.
On thetopoIThefirestair. Fran jumped as the sound of the shots "Stilllocked. ..on the side." Peter said, pointing to another as-
reverberated through the enormous mall. sembly. He moved to the far side of the gate. T he same key fit and
"Jesus Christ," Steve screamed, grabbing [he rifle from the Peler repealed the process.
petrifiedwoman. "They're maniacs." But Roger could not share his joy. His attention was on the
He looked long and hard at Fran. He was torn between staying creature riding the escalator, almost near Ihe lop. Just as Roger was
here with her and charging downstairs to see what was going on. about to shoot, something caught his eye.
Fran needed protection, but he also needed to prove to her, to The fallen Zombies, who up now could not be seen behind
until
himself, and to those two macho supermen downstairs that he the escalator railwall. suddenly came tumbling out onto ihe bal-
could join (he battle. cony floor,
Fran saw the moment of indecision in his eyes. A shaken Roger took but his aim was inaccurate. The
fire,

"Stephen, don't go down there." she pleaded. "Stephen. pressures were starting to buildand for one moment he stopped to
ptaser think about the idiocy of what he was doing. That was his downfall,
""It's all right." he said calmly, starling 10 make his way down the because it disturbed his concentration. His shot hit the standing
Zombie in the neck, tearing half the throat away. The creature was
In the corridor of the administrate: ollia . Roger and ihrown off balance enough to lose its fooling. It fell back down the
Peter were stepping over (be corpse. escalator, but before it reached ihe bottom, it stopped rolling. The

"Whaddaya think'. " Roger asked as the second

1
Zombie, the steps carried it back up toward (he second floor again. It was still

armless female, came into his view. He lired his weapon and the very much alive.
creature fell in a heap. As if nothing had happened, he continued his Two more creatures on the balcony struggled to stand. Roger
conversation. watched them and then looked back over his shoulder. To his
"Bag it or try for it?" he asked his comrade. horror he saw that Zombies from the side concourse were about a
"You game?" Peter asked. hundred and fifty feel away.
Roger nodded and the two men ran down the hall toward the Working against lime, Peter turned the key in the lock, but again
mall. With their rifles poised, they seemed like commandos on an the gate would not budgc.lt moved slightly, and Peter could see

50 HEAVY MtTAL
thatit was tree from the middle and far right mechanism but that
there was a third lock on the far left. He moved to it quickly.
As if (hey possessed some kind of primitive antennae, the other
creatures on the first floor began to take note of the action upstairs
and they. loo. started to move.
Zombies surrounded the troopers on all sides now. Those who
had managed to climb the stationary stairway were beginning 10
reach the second floor, but they were far down the main balcony. In
order to reach the entrance lo Porter's they would have to pass the
administrative corridor.
Roger steadied his nerves and collected his thoughts. In the back
of his mind he was wondering what the hell was taking Peter so
damn long.
He fired his rifle again and one of the nearby Zombies fell in
heap.
His confidence restored, he looked around for more of the
enemy to mow down.
"For God's sake. Stephen." Fran called down the stairway upon
hearing Roger's shot. "Let's get up on the roof," she cried out to
him desperately.
At the middle landing. Steve stared down into the darkness
below. More gunfire could be heard from the mall. He was stuck:
pan of him wanted to run up to Fran and escape with her in the
chopper. The other pan wanted to go down and get into the action.
"It's all right." he said, trying to convince himself as well. "Those
things don't move fast enough to catch us." The last part of his
sentence was practically drowned out by the staccato beat of the
gunfire.
With a loud rumble, the large gate finally freed itself from its
bonds and rolled up. Peter ducked into the store even as the gate
was still rising. The momentum of the heavy metal carried the lip
out of Peter's grasp and it rolled out of his reach. It jerked up into its
fully open position and rolled back down slightly, but still Peter
could not reach the lip. It was over ten feet to the ceiling. The
bottom of the gate rested about three feet above Peter's out-
stretched fingertips.
Panicking for the first time since the whole horrible situation
evolved. Peter turned to see the Zombie advancing.
Roger had just dropped another with a clean shot through the
head, then he backed into the archway of Porter's entranecway.
Desperately, Peter looked around for something to stand on in
order to reach the elusive gate.
Steadily, the Zombies advanced toward the arch.
Peter grabbed a small counter used to display shoes, but it was
deceptively heavy and he called out to Roger.
'"Here. ..come on...."
Unfortunately. Roger had to abandon his strategic post at the
arch in order to help Peter drag over the little counter. They pulled
it to a point just at the side of the open arch and Peter instantly
jumped up on top of it. At that instant, a Zombie rounded the
corner and grabbed at Peter's leg.
Startled. Peter started to kick, and the awkward motion caused
him to fall off the little counter. Gracefully, he landed on his feet,
but he was out on the balcony beyond the arch. Quickly. Roger
brought his rifle butt around against the creature's head and the
Zombie fell backward, but it was still alive.
A few other creatures were only a few feet from Peter, who was
now" unarmed as his gun sal on the small counter inside the store.
Roger leveled off his rifle but couldn't fire, since Peter was in his
line of vision. Suddenly, Peter made a move, and like a football
player, cut to the left and then to the right. Diving, he threw hjmself
at one of the creatures, carrying it into the store.
Roger, all the while, had been firing on the advancing Zombies,
dropping one and then another. "Behind you. behind you," Peter
cried to Roger as he jumped back up on the counter.
The creature trapped in the store had knocked over a cosmetics
display, and tubes of lipsticks. com pacts. cylinders of eyeliner and
mascara rolled around under its feet. Finally, the creature leaned
against the glass case that displayed false eyelashes and plastic nails
and was able to regain its footing.
In an instant. Roger turned and fired. The creature fell. In that
time. Peter was able to grab the lip of the roll gate and started to
bring it down.
During all the commotion, several creatures gathered in the
archway. They stood there, clutching at the air with clawlike
hands. One stood in the middle of the path of the roll gate, blocking
its downward progress.
Roger took careful aim and fired point-blank into the forehead
of the Zombie who was blocking the gate. It flew backward, crash-
ing into a few of its brothers. As the gate started to lower, the
clutching hands of the other Zombies seemed to reach out and try
to strangle for killing one of their own. Roger dropped his
Roger
rifle and ran to the cage now to try and help pull iidown. Peter, still
holding onto the lip. jumped ofl the counter to gel more leverage.
The two troopers were now sweating profusely, large areas of
a dark were spreading under their arms and on the back of their
uniforms. They were struggling to move the gate steadily down. It
was now only four feet from the floor, but the creatures, who
seemed lo feel no pain, were throw ing themselves in the path of the
descending gate, making it more difficult. One of them tried to
crawl underneath and its torso just got through as ihe gale slammed
down against its chest. Its arms grabbed for Peter's legs and its
mouth gaped open. Its mutilated body prevented the gate from
engaging in the floor mechanisms.
Roger lei go of the cage as Peter tried to hold it against the
creatures outside. Both men were exhausted now. and barely had
enough strength to pull the gate down, let alone battle the Zombies.
But some inner resource, some extra dose of adrenaline coursed
through their veins. Grabbing his rifle. Roger brought the butt
straight down crushing the pawing Zombie's skull. Ihe Zombie
went limp and Roger tried to push it clear off the gate, but the
pressure was too enormous.
"Let up a little. ..let up a little." he gasped 10 Peter.
Peter let up the pressure and the gate rose a few inches. Bui. as
more and more Zombies appeared outside, they too clutched at the
roll Although the openings in the grid were only big enough
cage.
hands could not reach through. However, the
for their fingers, their
force of their pushing in unison caused the gate to go higher and
higher... more than Peter intended it logo to clear the obstructing
corpse.
With his rifle butt, Roger managed to push the dead Zombie
clear except for one of its arms. From ouiside. a creature's hand
suddenly grabbed Roger's weapon.
For a moment, ihe macabre thought passed through Roger's
mind: it was like the tug-o-war game he used lo play with his
friends when he was younger. Onlv now ihe stakes were life or
dcalh'
"Come on... come on." Peter cried oiu. He was having a harder
lime holding the gate and il inched upward, out of his reach.
Roger decided to let goof the gun barrel and ihe creature flew
back into the crowd, brandishing iis pii/.L. Roger grabbed for ihe
gate to help Peier and they tried again to crush it.
"The arm. ..that arm's in the way." Peter told lino.
Roger squatted and managed to throw the dead Zombie's arm
(now only held onto ihe body wiih a ihin strand of muscle) clear.
With a slight shiver of revulsion al what he had just done, Roger
grabbed ihe gate again. Now. with both of the men focusing their
attention and strength on the gate, it moved down more steadily.
At Ihe lasi moment, another clutching arm jutted into the store,
bui when Ihe gate hit it. it wiihdrew. Finally, and not a minute loo
soon, the gate clicked solidly into place.
The two troopers stepped back from the gate and collapsed
against another glass display case. This one held sunglasses, suntan
lotion, and various vacation time necessities. The men gathered
their strength and watched in horror as ihe creatures still moaned
and gurgled, slamming against the gale. Their fingers clutched
futilely at the grid, but they were unable to budge it.
"Well... we' re in. Now. how the hell we gonna get back?" Roger
asked. scanning the department store. A houi ten or twelve Zombies
tried to get in. Several others made their way along the balcony.
Roger also noted in disgust that six lay dead along the floor, their
heads bleeding profusely from gunshot wounds or smashed skulls.
"Let's go shopping first," Peter said, calm, cool, and collected
once again.
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by Mark Wheatley
But the roc ash
can was ju isy.
The met ..blings The last sound he could
along. The bottle was cold effective- ned any claim some credit for, but
in his hand as he wobbily other soui he alley. his wine-besotted mind
sighted through the hole One harr ;he bottle, wouldn't admit to havin
to its interior. the other ed against come up With the firs
"Emptyth." The slurred the wall, j
anaged to five.He was getting frus-
word ran away with his get his l< under him trated. Then he heard it
tongue. "Apslurb" was again. A lent of shuf- again, a little voice inside
the next thing it said, and fling anoae
an was out of the his head, and it saifpi
that amused him. He alley annn the sidewalk. "He's too drunk."
raised the bottle to his Then he was sure he v "Try the cat," it con-
drain it for the hun-
lips to heard it, and shivered. tinued.
dredth time, but once It was
a voice, saying "Perfect," answered
lis tongue started those strange words that another voice.
had attempted to com- Fernandez watched
mandeeKhu^ongue ear- the cat scamper across
"Aspen>. lier. BeiJI M d he ' the street and stalk ob-
"Slzolburp and Rose." tottered about on an in- liviously over his out-
visible axiMMfliottle stretched legs. It disap-
En i was enough. acting as his nWOn. When peared in the darkness of
Hell, or not, it was he was facing the street the alley.
still louth, and he'd again he burped. Noth- Once more he pushed
dam II say what he ingand nobody. Then himself against the wall
wan ght be"% bit he heard It again. He to a standing position,
slurr. 'that's to be snapped his head around and leaned cautiously
expec naconnois- and instantly regretted it, around the corner of the
seur su as the world took a swim building. .,

His r tered and a wave of nausea The cat was dancing.

gainst washed him to the pave- Eyes aglow with hellfire,
headed ment. He landed upright, electric sparks arching
But he sitting against the wall. along standing hairs. And
forgot to open his eyes And then, he'd be god- those words purred forth
and his fifth step (he damned if his tongue from the feline lips.
always counted them) in- didn't start doing it again. "Beelzebub."
troduced him to a* gar- "Bezelbub." "Asmodeus."
bage can and tripped him "Asmodius." "Mobius."
face to face with the "Mobiust" "Ra Deva Sa."
pavement- "Roxnooooth." "Mephisto."
r he thought "Mythopokion." The cat became danc-
"Burp." "*J '
ing flame. Green burning,

acid smelling. The doors
of eternity seemed to
(rack open, allowing
frigid waves to crash
the world. And then, with
a sudden burst of other-
worldly brilliance: He was
he^e.
His cloaked form raged
with the flames of holo-
caust and his gaze was
apocalyptic. f7;
His first step took him
' the city and. the
tearsrnnid
Jsts, follow'
ing him cross the, conti
wm
was somewhere
^%
d in the swamp, and
ief wouldn't return to
louse without at least
ig her. For too many
years the family had
chided her belief in the
phantom's existence. But
she was there. Joiief
known In her soul
was more than a dr<
Memil carried
the opei
her, hardly a
surroundings, ' And between the
sense alert only
,861 f i
ethereal form. So she
ignored the string
and the gun metal haze
patches
drifting in cotton
over the peat bogs ahead.
Joiief leaned forward
and slapped Memil an af-
fectionate pat on his ser-
pontine neck. Even when
she was this intent on a
search, Joiief was aware
of Memil, the most beau-
4 '
tifuldragon left in the
world. And he was hers.
v
The fact that Memil had
never matured, never
sprouted the wondjrous
wings of a Senior Dragon,
did not, in Jolief's opin-
ion, detract from his sin-
gular beauty.
Suddenly Jolief's body
warmed in a rush of pas-
into sion. A sensual aura set
her almost aglow. Memil's
vast form shivered be-
neath her. Joiief slowly
eased herself back and
forth along the ridge of
Memil's back, breathing
deeply of the heavy air of
i the swamp. And as her
body began to respond m
burning waves, Jolief's
eyes beheld it as it
dropped from the sky.
*
J /
Sarha danced. Not to
from the house
but ~W|MM beat of the
calf's dead heart. To the
fefiapof the wingless bird.
n|HBbe while singing in
rigues known only to
Inose ancient souls who
nee walked the earth,
Her bare arms crossed
naked breastafth a super-
tl natural frenw of passion.
All abouMner was her
(Pepping with
otlons the
loth that seemed'
d with unnatural
flash of flesh and the coil
of cloth bobbed the orb.
moss Red, amber, gold. Rose,
pink, crimson, orange.
And at the moment of
her deep, ragged gasp, the
orb dripped blood.
"; And in the moment that
he stepped across the
Blue Ridge mountains
and onto the. fringe of the
dismal swamp, the orb
dripped blood.
And in the moment of
Jolief's climax, the orb
crashed Into the murk
waters, leaving behit
crystallized trail of
?HP *.; :v i
(hi*. ^fllfct
 ' a
* across the universe
suns bled. Freeing the
iunsoli
forces bought with the
passions of two very dif-
ferent women caught in
the throes of a cosmic
lust. Jolief and Sarha had
broken barriers.
"Beelzebub." ' /
%
,
"Asmodeus." f . -i
"Mobius.
"Ra Deva Sa.
"Mephisto.'
One step from his goal,
He stood defeated. There
was nothing left to do.
The orb had dripped
blood. "Damn that
drunk," his hellfire
thoughts raged. Just one
moment more and the
earth girl would have
been stopped.
The sky roared.
He looked up.
The mighty fist fell.
"My God!" Inthe dim
light, Keith could barely
make out the shape he
knew, so well. Sarha lay
amid the jumbled mess,
tangled in the sheet be-
side a slimy ball of some
sort.
"Sarha!" The word was
more a plea than a name.
Keith pushed his way
over tumbled furniture to
where his wife lay. As he
bent at her side, brushing
her crimson hair from her
face, a breeze brought his
attention, to the bay win-
dows. They were shat-
tered;wood and glass
fragments were scat-
tered far across the slop-
ing lawn. He could see the
moon reflected oft the
broken glasses- TarMr.ay
as theMjfiokehousev
There had been an explo-
sion. He'd heard it and
had come from the hall,
leaving astonished
guestsin his wake as he
ran.
Sarha had somehow
escaped harm. And God,
i he was thankful for that.
Her eyes fluttered open
then. Long lashes making
dark ovals of her eyes.
"Sarha."
She smiled and Keith
crushed her against him;
holding her for proof of
her existence. .
, "Keith." When he just
squeezed harder, Sarha
aided, "I saved the drag-
ons. Memil can mate."
Then it was clear to
him. Those strange
dreams she was con-
stantly telling him about.
Of another world, of an-
other life. Sarha believing
that she was someone
called Jolief . And a pet
dragon. A dragon forever
stuck in prepuberty. The
last male dragon. Unable
to fertilize the eggs laid
by the several remaining
females.
He hadn't believed it.
But how could he deny
this?As he held his sob-
bing wife his gaze drifted
across the shambles of
his library once again.
The moonlight was glint-
ing off the orb and the
pool of liquid surrounding
it. He dipped a finger into
the stuff and raised it to
see it better. It was blood.
It was then that he
knew that his wife had
broken barriers, because
suddenly he forgot his
.-
immediate concern for
Sarha, as the universe
was laid bare to his mind.
Voices of numberless
creatures were there to
be understood on their
primary level. The mind
was no longer a prison.
 The mind that had worn
the five names, that could
explain, was finally dead,
so Keith and Sarha would
never connect the kilo-
meter-wide crater at the
north edge of the swamp
with the evening's
strange happenings.
Never would they know
that but for a small
amount of wine, it would
have been their home de-
stroyed.

People on the way to

work the next morning
stepped over Fernandez
for over an hour before a
young occupational ther-
apist stopped to check
him for some sign of life. If
not for her, the rats and
dogs would have proba-
bly finished off the
corpse for dinner. And
they'd probably have got-
ten drunk.

As Jolief struggled up
the ladder to her tree
home, she smiled at the
memory of her last sight
of Memil.
Sitting on a cliff, high
over the swamp, with
newfound wings and vi-
rility, he'd stopped and
trilled a quick song back
to her before flying off in
search of the few remain-
ing females of his kind.
She knew the family
would add this to her list
of failures: that she lost
the last male dragon. And
the only tame one in ages,
at that. But she, and
Sarha, knew it was the
first of their successes.
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 FACT, THE OHUi THINO
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WA* SORN IN THE 9BAK OFOLlR
LORP 1953 IN WE-ST-SWISS-
SEPAWy AT BAPEN-OOS OF
A 5WIS6 MOTHER ANP A
5WISS-&SR/VWN FATHEfi?.
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FLIGHT INTO THE INTERIOR OF
THE NEBULOUS "HAKEAH OF
SALI&AA" THAT THE<J Dl-S,-
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OTRA," THE FAMOUS ANP
WRECKS OF THE
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MOTHER-ARK OF THE AICIENT-S.,
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TOOK THE EXPLO^TIOM.
64 HEAVY METAL
' ,,.HE BECAME A JOURNALIST ON
"peVELT" PROFPEP OUT OF
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VIETNAM- HE ACCIPENTAU-y
CRO&-SEP THE LE**E:|2
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THE SECRET OF
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THE EQUIVALENT OF PHASE "EST
ANP WORKEP FOR THIRTEEN
yeARS IN THE MACKAU
SPATIAL LAB WHERE HE
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the fall in that place alw The blond girl turned away and walked
Rutlv found her . huge and ugly house came down the sidewalk and stopped i back into the dim hallways of the terrible old
off Western Avenue i Los Angeles; living house. Rudy stood in the open doorway, and

with them, all of the i; not just Jonah, but Cardboard covered the upstairs windows. suddenly, as if the blond girl had been a bar-
all of them. A baby carriage was overturned on th rier to it, and her departure had released it

Ii was November Los Angeles, front walk. he was assaulted, like a smack in the face,
liably dull even for The front rloor was ornately carved. by a wall of pungent seem Ii was marijuana.
.

Darkness seemed to breathe heavily.

Rudy sliifted the duffel bag slightly on his
shoulder. Me was afraid of the house. He
was breathing more heavily as he stood
there,, and a panic he could never have de-
scribed tightened the fat muscles on either
side of his shoulderblades, lie looked up into
the corners of the darkening sky, seeking a
way out, but he could only go forward. Kris-

Another girl answered the door.

She looked at him without speaking, her
long blond hair half-obscuring her face,
peering out from inside the veil of Clairol and
dirt. When he asked a second time for Kris,

she wet her lips in the comers, and a tic

made her cheek jump. Rudy set down the
duffel bag with a whump. "Kris, please," he
said urgently.

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I teleftover? inhaled, and his head reeled.

He look a step back, into the lasi inches of
sunlight coming over the lanai apartment
building, and then it was gone, and he was
stillbuzzing, and moved forward, dragging
ihe duffel bag behind him.
He did not remember closing the from
door, but when he looked, some time later, it
was closed behind him.
He found Kris 'on the third floor. King
against the wall of a dark closet. It held an

infinitude of odors dirty sweat socks as

pungent as stew, fleece .jackets on which the
had dried to mildew, a mop gracious
with its scent of old dust hardened to dirt,
die overriding weed smell of what she had
been at for no one knew how long and ii
held her. As pretty as pretty could be.
"Kris?"
Slowly, her head came up, and she saw
him. Much later, she tracked and focused
and she began to cry. "Go away."

In the limpid silences of the whispering closet after her.

house, back and above him in the darkness. '"Hie rabbit." she said languorously. "You Ye
Rudy heard the sudden sound of leather crushing the rabbit." He looked down, his righi the landing. It giggled it . glav icitnid
wings beating furiously for a second, then knee was King on the soft matted-fur head of trilling. Rudy knew it wa gigghu
nothing. the pink rabbit He pulled it out from under his
.
he could make ni mi ivem<
>

Rudy crouched down beside her, his heart knee and threw it into a comer of the closet. Kris opened her eyes and stared at him with
grown twice its size in his chest. He warned She looked at him with disgust. "You haven't distaste. "Why did you come here?"
so desperately to reach her, to talk to her. changed, Rudy. Go away." "Because we're gonna be married."
"Kris . . . please . .
." She turned her head "I'm outta die array, Kris," Rudy said gentry, "Get out of here."
away, and with the hand that had been strok- They let me out on a medical. I want you to "I love you, Kris. Please."
ing the rabbit she slapped at him awkwardly, come back, Kris, please." She kicked out at him. It didu'i hurl, but il

missing him She would not listen. He moved his lips sev- was meant to. He backed out of the closet
For an instant, Rudy could have sworn he eral limes, as though trying to recall words he
heard the sound of someone counting heavy had already spoken, and he lit a cigarette, and Jonah was down in the living room. The
gold pieces, somewhere off to his right, down a sat in the open doorway of the closet, waiting blond girl who had answered the door was try-
passageway of the third door. But when he for her to come back to him. lie had wailed ing to get his pants off him. He kepi shaking
half-turned and tried to focus his hearing on it, eight months for her to come back to him, his head no, and trying to fend her off with a
there was no soimd. since he had been inducted and she had written wcak-wristcd hand. The record player under
Kris was dying 10 crawl back farther into the Rudy, I'm going to live with Jonah at The the brick-und-liourd bookshelves was playing
closet. She was trying to smile. Hill. Simon and; Garfimkel, "The Big Bright Green
lie turned back, on hands and knees .aid he There was the sound of something very liny. Pleasure Machine."

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 "Melting," Jonah said
he pointed toward the "I Ic's freaking out again."
"Oh shii!" the blond tfirt said, and threw hini
the fireplace mantel. The mirror was dim and "Yeah, but what's happening to him'.''
down, giving Up at last. She came toward Rudy.
chill. "Melting!" Jonah yelled suddenly, cover- She shrugged. "He sees his face n
"What's wrong with him?" Rudy asked.
that's what he says."
"
"Ishe mi marijuana'.1
The blond girl looked at him withn
distrust "Man '? ley, who are you?"
1

"I'm a friend of Kris's."

'Hie blond girl assayed him for a i

more, then by the way her shoulders dropped

and her posture relaxed, she accepted trim.
There was a Middle Earl h poster on the wall
behind her, with its brightness faded in a long,
straight swath where the sun caught it every
morning. He looked around uneasily. He didn't
know what todo.
Another record dropped onto the turntable
and Stevie Wonder blew hard into his harmoni-
ca and started singing, "I Was Made to Love
Her," The girl walked into the dining room. Ru-
dy joined her.

"I was engaged 10 Kris," Rudy said. "We was

going to he married when I got out of basic. But

she decided to come over here with Jonah, and
1 didn't want to push her. So 1 waited eight
but I'm out of the army now." The girl

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 When Rudy went back "Iley. Rudy, where ylieeii?" tired."
Jonah was sitting up o iofe, reading Tvi it then: Rudy said, "Jonah, hey lislen. what's the Sto-
Hesse's Magister Ludi. "Wow. You out now? I mean for good?" ry with Kris?You know, we were supposed to
'Jonah'.'" Rudy said. Jonah looked up, ;ook Rudy nodded. "Uh-huli. Medical." months ago."
get married about eight
him a while in recogttize Rudy. "Hey. that'sgood." "She's around someplace, "Jonah answered.
When lie he patted the sofa beside
did. hini Tliey sat quietly for a while.. Jonah started t> Out of the kitchen, through the dining roon
and Rudy came and sat down. nod. and then said id himself. "You're not ver where the blond girl lay sleeping, came iru

sound of something wild, tearing at meat. It edge of the front wttlk leading up to the froi with all of us and
went tin for a long time, but Rudy was looking door.He was pointing at the big, old house. Christ, don huam
out the front window, the big bay window. "Jonah, can Kris eume away now?" The two cops w
There was a man in a dark gray suit standing Jonah looked angry. "Iley, listen, man. in door.
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 "May I help voir?" Rudy asked them,
The firsl cup said, "Do you live here?"
"Yes," said Rudy. "My name is Rudi
Buekel. May I help you?"
"We'd like Hi come inside and talk to you.
"Do you have a search warrant?"
"We don't want to search, we only wan
talkt. n the a

The second cop looked iroublcd. "Is this the

place they call The Hill'?"
"Who?" Rudv asked, looking perplexed.
was The
"Well, the neighbors said this Hill'

and there were some pretty wild parties going

-
"Do you hear any partying ?"
The cops looked at each oilier Rudy added.
"It's always very quiet here. My mother is dying
of cancer of the stomach."
They let Rudy move in because he was able

who came to the door from the

to talk to people
outside. Aside from Rudy, who went out to get
food,and the weekly trips to the unemploy-
ment line, no one left The Hill. It was usually
very quiet.
Except sometimes there was a sound of
growling in the buck hall leading up to what had

been a maid's room, and the splashing from the

basement, the sound of wet things on bricks.
It was a self-contained little universe, bor-
dered on the north by acid and mescaline, on
the south by pot and peyote, on the east by
speed andiredballs.uiidon ihe west by downers
and amphetamines. There were eleven people
living in The 1 Ell. Eleven, and Rudy.

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 lie walked through the halls and sometimes
found Kris, who would not talk to him, save
once, when she asked him if he'd ever been
heavy behind anything except love. He didn't
know what to answer her, so he only said
"Please," and she called him a square and
donnered attic. slay. His head always buzzed and he some-
Rudy had heard sijueaking from the attic. Il limes felt thai if he just said the right thing, the
had sounded to him like the shrieking of mice rightway, Kris would come away with him. I le
being torn lo pieces. There v dislike the light. It hurt hise;
le talked to anyone else very much.
as always a struggle to keep high, EC
group high as elevated as possible.

Rudv became their 01 c link with the outside. lieinsisted Kris be nice lo him. when he was not out on errands for The Hill,
{e had written to sor neone his parents, a They all made her be nice > him, and she and he read the smaller items about train
dead, a bank, someon and now there was slept with him in the little roo on the second wrecks and molestations in the suburbs. And
nonev coming in, Not much, but enough to Boot where Kudy had put his .vspapers and him and they made love of a sort.
keep the food slocked, and the rent paid. But his duffel bag. He lay there of the day. One night she convinced him he should

"make heavy behind acid. "and he swallowed

it,

fifteen hundred mikes cut with Methedrine, in

two big gel caps.

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 After that, Rudy seldom went out into the cause there was seldom a sound from The Rudy's clothes were loo large for him now.
light. He did the shopping at night, wearing Hill). lie wore only underpants, His hands and feet
shades. He emptied llie garbage at night, and He began to realize he had not seen some of hurl. The knuckles of his fingers were larger,
he swept down the from walk, and did the froni the eleven young people who lived in 'Hie Hill from cracking them, and they were always an
with scissors because the tewnraower
liiivn for a long time. Bui the Sounds from above and angry crimson.
would have annoyed the residents of the laiiai below and around him in the house grew more- His head always buzzed. The thin, perpetual
apartments (who no longer complained, be- odor ofpoi had saturated into the wood walls

WW

and the rafters. He had an itch o

ofhis ears he could not quell. He
pers allthe time, old newspapers whose
were imbedded in his memory. He remembered
a job he had once held as a garage mechanic, But he went to tell the clever
but that seemed a very long time ago. When He could not find them.
they cut off the eleetrieity in The Hill, it didn't They were all gone. Evei

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the darkness. The basement had been flooded.
One of die eleven was there. Hfe name was
Teddy. He was attached to the slime-coated
upper wall of die basement hanging close lc
.
the stone, pulsing softly and giving off a thni
purple light, purple as a bruise. He dropped a
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there, moving icily with the tideless tide. Then
something came near it. and he made a sharp
movement, and brought the thing Up still writh-
ing in his rubbery grip, and incited it along die
wall to a dark, moist spot on his upper surface.
ered its length, and
pushed the thing ui the dark -blood spot, where
itslirieked with a terrible sound, anil went in
and there was a sucking noise, then a swallow-
ing sound.
Rudy went back upstairs. Climbing to the
the thing on the stairs that sounded
as though it was counting heavy gold pieces. It
was not counting heavy gold pieces. Rudy
could not look at it; made him feel sick.
it
 He found Kris in the attic, In a comer break- rang like crystal. His cars itched.
inti. the skull and sucking tint the moist brains In the rafters of the attic, Jonah crouched, Kris sucked out the lasi of the mello\ v good
of a thing that giggled like a harpsi chord. gargoyled and sleeping. There was a green stain things in the skull of the silent little c
"Kris, we have to go away," he told her. She on his jaws, and some-thing stringy in his claws. and scraped idly at the flaccid body with hairy
reached out and touched him. snapping her "Kris, please," he said urgently. hands. She settled back on her haunches, and
long, pointed, dirty lingcrmiilb against him. He I lis head buzzed. Iter long, hairy mu/zk came up.

Rudy scuttled away.
He ran loping, liis knuckles brushing the at-
tic floor as he scampered for safety. Behind
him. Kris was growling. He got down to the
second floor and then to the first, and tried to
climb up on i.he Morris chair to the mantel, so
he could see himself in the mirror, by the light
of the moon, through the fly-blown window.
But Xuomi was on the window, hipping up the
flies with her tongue.
He climbed with desperation, wanting to see
himself. And when he stood before the mirror,
he saw that he was transparent, that there was
nothing inside liim, that liis ears had grown
pointed and had hair on their lips; his eyes

were as huge as a tarsier's.and the reflected till be rang like fine crystal.
light hurt him. And the werewolf said \

Then he heard the growling behind and below

lythlnge:
"Please!" the little glass goblin begged, just
t the great hairy [iaw slapped him into a

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million coruscating rainbow fragments, all ex- I enclosed universe that was The Hill, all |

panding consciously into the tight little |

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