TUNNELS

Hia Kiddies. I'm taking a COLLEGE CORPSE on DIE-CHOLOGY! That's FRIGHT, I'm SLAY-JORING in the field to become a SHIVERING-SHRINK for BOILS and GHOULS like you. My first AX-AM, is about what goes on within...

Two teenage boys were walking over in Chicago, Illinois, one evening, back in August, 1959. As they walked together, three crooks ran out of an alleyway and stepped in front of them suddenly. "Hey, fellas, give us money or jewelry ya have!" one of the crooks said to the teens, holding a gun up to one of their foreheads. "Please mister, take what you want from Johnny and I" the other teenager replied to the crook, looking over at the teen with the gun against his forehead. "Yeah, George and I will give you guys anything!" Johnny said to the crook and looked over at the other teenager. "Yeah, here's an antique pocket-watch!" George said to the crook and handed him one. "Thanks George. Give what you have, Johnny" the crook said to him and then to Johnny, holding the gun steady to Johnny's forehead. Johnny pulled out a nickel from his pocket and the crook took it from him. He put the gun down and he and the two other crooks ran into the alleyway then. George put his hand on Johnny's shoulder. "Hey, are you alright Johnny?" he asked him, concerned. "Yeah, man, thanks!" Johnny replied, sighing in relief and putting a hand on his forehead. Meanwhile the three crooks ran across a walkway to the other side of a street and there was an open-manhole on the sidewalk where they stopped at. The crook with the gun put his weapon into his jacket-pocket and one of the other crooks opened a bottle of Ripple, and drank some. The crook with the gun in his jacket-pocket and George's antique pocket-watch leaned forward to the crook with the booze, and dropped the pocket-watch. It fell into the open-manhole that was in between four sawhorses. "HOLY CRAP, FRANK, THERE GOES OUR ANTIQUE POCKET-WATCH MAN!" the crook with the Ripple shouted at the other crook. "AH, CRAP, I'M GETTIN' IT BACK, WALLY!" Frank shouted back to him and stepped over a sawhorse then.

Frank carefully climbed down, into the open-manhole, and then Wally handed the third crook his bottle of Ripple, and carefully followed him. When Frank and Wally were standing within the sewer, Wally looked up, at the third crook, and said to him, "Ernie, throw down your flashlight man". "Alright Wally" Ernie replied, and threw a flashlight down to Wally. Wally caught it and turned it on. "Thanks" he called up to Earnie and handed the flashlight to Frank then. Frank flashed the flashlight around at on the floor of the sewer, seeing water flowing quickly, and George's pocket-watch float away. He and Wally chased after it, into a dark-tunnel. The sewer-water ran fast and the pocket-watch floated quickly out of the light of Ernie's flashlight. Frank shined it directly in front of him and Wally, seeing a wall up, ahead of them and two more tunnels on both sides. The crook shined the flashlight into the sewer-water and found the pocket-watch just floating in place at by the wall. Frank got to the end of the tunnel by the wall, and a black tentacle came into the light, wrapping itself around the watch and yanking it out of the light to the right-hand-side. "WHOA, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!?" Frank asked and backed up. "It probably was a snake Wally" he said to him. "Yeah, it got the watch, Frank!" Wally replied to him. Frank turned and shined the flashlight into the tunnel to the right-hand-side of the sewer. There was the shadowy-silhouette of a head within the other tunnel. "Come on" Frank said to Wally and they walked slowly into the other tunnel.

The shadowy-head within the light became white, as the crooks got closer to it and its big eyes shined a greenish-yellow. It was some kind of humanoid monster that was bald, having eerie black lips and two long, black fangs hung out of its mouth from its upper-lip. The thing had no ears or nose, but screeched eerily in a high-pitched tone at Frank and Wally. The crooks screamed in horror at the humanoid-monster, and Frank pulled his gun out of his jacket-pocket, aiming it directly at the thing. He fired his gun at it, shooting the monster in its black tentacle within the light of the flashlight. The humanoid monster screeched in pain, and greenish-yellow slime oozed out of its wounded-tentacle. The thing then attacked Frank, wrapping its two tentacles around his head, as the crook screamed and dropped both the gun and Ernie's flashlight. Wally heard the muffled screams of Frank along with the screeching of the humanoid monster, saw its greenish-yellow eyes glowing in the darkened-tunnel, turned and ran for it. He suddenly heard the sickening-sounds of eating behind him, as he ran out of the other tunnel. Wally turned around and saw the glowing-greenish-yellow eyes of the thing blinking and shaking in the darkness, as a ripping of cloth was heard among the gnawing. The crook turned and ran through the first tunnel. He made it underneath the open-manhole, and looked up and out at Ernie, who was drinking some of Frank's bottle of Ripple. "Ernie, there's some kinda monster down here man. It got the watch and attacked Frank!!!" Wally said to him and climbed up the ladder. As Wally poked his head up, out of the open-manhole, Ernie looked down him. Just then, one of the black tentacles of the humanoid-monster wrapped itself around Wally's ankle in the light and yanked it off of the ladder. Wally jerked and screamed, reaching out for Ernie, who took his hand then.

As Wally screamed, Ernie dropped Frank's bottle of Ripple, smashing it and spilling it on the sidewalk. The humanoid-monster with the bald white head screeched eerily, strongly pulling the crook down, to the sewer-floor, as he screamed. Ernie lost his balance and fell down, into the sewer, screaming himself then. The thing attacked Wally within the light that shined down into the sewer, screeching wildly, biting the side of the crook's face, causing him to scream more. Ernie slowly moved his head from side to side, then rose it. He carefully and slowly stood up, as the sounds of the thing eating were heard. "My hand is broke man!" Ernie said, and clutched his left hand that hung broken. Then he looked and gasped in terror at the humanoid monster writhing its head back and forth within the light before him. He ran down the tunnel and made it to the other end of it by the wall. He ran down the other tunnel on the right-hand-side and found his flashlight on the floor of the sewer. Picking it up, he shined it on the dead skeleton of Frank, lying on its side. Ernie screamed in surprised-terror. He backed up in the dark and turned around. The humanoid monster was standing right in front of him within the light of his flashlight. The thing had a thin black humanoid-body that was without features, and its two black tentacles protruded out of its sides. As it screeched eerily, Ernie screamed in surprise. Then, the thing grabbed the last crook by the throat, with its yellow-clawed-hands and bit into his face with its long black fangs within the light.

That night, Johnny and George were down in the basement of a house together, sitting on the side of a bed. On a radio, Buddy Holly sang "Peggy Sue". One of the humanoid monster's black tentacles came up, out of a sink-drain within the corner of the basement. It had George's antique pocket-watch wrapped around it. "Hey, George, it's your antique pocket watch man" Johnny said to him, noticing it and the black tentacle. George got up from the bed and hesitantly pulled it off the tentacle. The tentacle sank back down into the drain of the sink and George smiled. Meanwhile, the thing pulled its long tentacle out of a sewer-pipe within the light from the open-manhole, as it screeched. Then it wrapped its tentacles around the boney-necks of the dead skeleton's of Wally and Ernie, and carried them down the tunnel, into the darkness.

Heh-Heh, it looks like poor George got his AN-SHRIEK POCKET-WATCH back JUST IN SLIME, eh, kiddies? As for poor Frank, Wally and Ernie, they had to go looking for it with the help of Ernie's FLASH-FRIGHT! Oh, well, at least the monster had quite a BONE APETIT because of them hee-hee-hee!