The Old Gods Waken Author:Manly Wade Wellman The Raven Mockers came a-drifting to where I could see them again. And once had already been enough, but I shoved close against that rear corner and stuck out just a little piece of my face, to keep watch with one eye. Lord in heaven, how ugly those things were, with their flapping wing-skins and their stubby legs and their mask faces, as they... more » pushed in through the cage. I watched it stir amongst them like as if life had come into it, and then I watched while it was moved off to the front yard, toward the place where the fire was blazed up. They trundled it along the ground. I reckoned I could Luke a-standing up inside it, with his arms spread out and his hands grabbed hold of the crossbars of branches, the way a man grabs onto the window bars when he's in the jailhouse...« less