David Bischoff - The Blob

Immediately he felt better. Steadied.

He leaned back in his chair and closed bis eyes.

“When, Reverend?” said a voice from outside. “When?”

He opened his eyes and he saw an old black woman, leaning in, her face a map of hard times, her eyes filled with tears. She had been moved by his message.

“Ma’am?” he answered softly, his voice hoarse from the preaching and the whiskey.

“The Day of Reckoning… how far off?”

He stood and turned, looking down at something on the card table.

“Soon, missus,” he said, picking up the mason jar.

He looked down at the contents.

He was still amazed and grateful that he had been chosen as God’s own minister of judgment.

In the mason jar he’d taken from the Tick Tock diner, the piece of the Beast crawled around aimlessly, trying to get out, trying to feed.

“The Lord will give me a sign,” said Brother Storm. “A sign…”

The mason jar slipped from his sweaty fingers.

He caught it and placed it carefully back in its box.

Not now, thought the former Reverend Meeker.

But soon.

Soon.

The Blob sat in its jar, waiting. Waiting and crawling and roiling.

It was hungry.

Very, very hungry!

Tri-Star Pictures and

Andre Blay / Elliott Kastner Present

A Chuck Russell Film

THE BLOB

Executive Producer Andre Blay

Screenplay by Chuck Russell & Frank Darabont

Produced by Jack H. Harris and Elliott Kastner

Directed by Chuck Russell

A TRI-STAR RELEASE

© 1988 Tri-Star Pictures, Inc.

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ISBN: 0-440-20214-0

Printed in the United States of America

August 1988

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