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Webs of Time by Joseph Payne Brennan5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() He's about to wish he had been superstitious after all. ![]() Despite Old Man Gowse's warnings, as the sun goes down, Barnaby, a rational man who considers the superstitions about the bog to be gobbledygook, wants to bag himself a raccoon, so he heads into the swamp with his rifle, accompanied by Jibbe. On his way home he passes his neighbor, fellow farmer Rupert Barnaby and his dog Jibbe. Wharton's Swamp has a reputation, all right, but so does he, as being a bit on the kooky side. The next morning, Giles Gowse, a farmer who lives right next to Wharton's Swamp comes into town complaining that his cow Sarey has gone missing and his barn interior is all slimy and stinks like dead fish.Įveryone laughs at him. Homeless man Henry Hossing, who goes into the swamp to drink the whiskey he bought with a $10 bill he found, vanishes. ![]() Koontz's Phantoms and many others.Īn undersea seismic disturbance sends something fetid, slimy and alive to the surface of the sea and into Wharton's Swamp, a coastal bog near the town of Clinton Center. It went on to inspire many Blob Monster stories and films like The Blob, Stephen King's The Raft, The Clone, Dean R. Slime is a short horror novelette written by Joseph Payne Brennan and originally published in the March 1953 issue of Weird Tales. ![]()
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