The Accursed

Description for THE ACCURSED by Paul Boorstin:

OOZING FROM THE SHAFT OVERHAEAD, A GIANT SERPENT HOVERED ABOVE THE BABIES, FORKED TONGUE DARING, DARTING, DARTING...

As the sun sank over the isolated community, lengthening the shadows of ancient trees outside Thornwald Hospital, the huge reptile that some called the accursed Devil-snake stirred in its murky inner sanctum.  As hunger consumed it with an urgency no power on earth could stop, it slithered toward a newborn infant, its hideous, scaly body uncoiling, writhing and swelling along its full muscular length, it's eyes unblinking, its fangs exposed, its tongue flicking eagerly, ravenous for its first victim....

The assassin left no tracks, made not a sound, and only the dark night bore mute witness to the fiendish terror that had taken hold of the quiet community and its inhabitants---a terror as old as humankind...