história curta
"O Ângulo Humano" por William Tenn (pseudônimo de Philip Klass); publicado originalmente em Famous Fantastic Mysteries , outubro de 1948 , que está disponível no Arquivo da Internet .
sobre um homem que pega uma garota carona
"Hey, kid. Want a lift?"
The child stooped slightly against the somber background of night and decaying, damp countryside. Her eyes scanned the car, came back to his face and considered it. The kid had probably not known that this chromium-plated kind of post-war auto existed. She'd certainly never dreamed of riding in one. It would give her a chance to crow over the other kids in the 'tater patch.
Evidently deciding that he wasn't the kind of stranger her mother had warned her about and that it would be less uncomfortable in the car than walking in the rain and mud, she nodded. Very slowly, she came around the front and climbed in at his right.
"Thanks, mister," she said.
quem é um lobisomem ou um vampiro
Ela é uma vampira. O homem é um repórter que cobre uma história de vampiros:
"Get the human angle on this vampire hunt," Randall had ordered. "All the other news services will be giving it the hill-billy twist, medieval superstition messing up the atomic world. What dumb jerks these dumb jerks are! You stay off that line. Find yourself a weepy individual slant on bloodsucking and sob me about three thousand words. And keep your expense account down—you just can't work a big swindle sheet out of that kind of agricultural slum."
Eu li essa história nos anos 70 em uma antologia
Talvez a antologia de capa dura britânica de 1977 Nightshade mortal: contos estranhos do escuro ( Peter Haining , ed.) ou sua edição americana de 1978 Deadly Nightshade . Antes disso, a história apareceu em uma coleção de William Tenn chamada O Ângulo Humano . Qualquer essas capas parecem familiares?
A linha final da história é que ele iria olhar para os dentes dela depois de reunir pistas de que ela era perigosa, mas não conseguiu "porque seus dentes estavam na garganta".
"What was that you remembered about the shape of her teeth?" his mind shrieked. He started to whip his head around, to get another look at her teeth. But he couldn't.
Because her teeth were in his throat.