"The Beasts of Electra Drive" teaser - Krueger appears
Teaser for the video-book of Rohan Quine's novel "The Beasts of Electra Drive" - teaser 40(ii) "Krueger appears". // He hears the scrape of cold steel fingernail-blades along the railings behind him. The scrape gets closer to him, rising to a screech. It's a sound to make knives curl - the sound a blade would make if it were tortured. Shigem shrieks and twitches, wheels around and sees a man is stalking nearer through the lamp-light, his hand upon the railings, his head somewhat lowered and his eyes brimful of evil humour. The man wears a fedora hat, a top coloured with red and green horizontal stripes, and on one hand a dirty leather glove whose fingers end in lethal knife-blades. He's not burly but emanates a grating, slashing, gut-nauseous flavour of perverted violence, with a subterranean chuckle and a grin raging with slaughter on a face that's burned to disfigurement. // A slow cackle echoes around the smoking area, with the plink of drips and hiss of steam, as in a cavernous power-station boiler-room, while he proffers his gloved right hand to Shigem. "FANCY A BUMP OF COKE?... COME AND GET IT, BITCH!" he grates, flexing back his bladed fingers, one by one, to reveal a heap of crystalline white powder in his palm, with a dozen human eyes leering up salaciously out of the powder at Shigem. Then he bellows with demonic laughter, crooning "Come to Freddy!" as Shigem scampers back through the door into the nightclub. Krueger's arm extends through the air after him, down the hallway between the dozen go-go boys' podiums, shooting along just behind the nape of Shigem's neck, which it scratches flirtatiously with the sharp end of a pinkie-blade, drawing drips of blood as Shigem sprints away down the never-ending hallway, screaming and crying...