Doom
Chapter One
A dark corridor, deep underground. A single shriek, quickly cut off. The sound of running feet, coming closer...
Pounding down the corridor, Dr. Todd Carmack couldn't see his pursuers, couldn't hear them, couldn't smell them, not here -- but he knew they were behind him, gaining ground on him and the other five scientists.
Oh yeah: the things were solid enough, loud and reeking enough, and murderous enough -- one of them had stood over him, as he lay on his back in the lab, dripping drool on him, gnashing its teeth in anticipation, a lab technician's raggedly severed arm still clutched in its talons. Carmack had pulled the limp, semiconscious Dr. Norris onto him, putting Norris between him and that thing -- it had to go through Norris's body first, and that had given Dr. Carmack a moment to scramble away and start the headlong flight down this corridor. But Norris's sobbing screams still echoed around Carmack's skull -- they seemed to echo down the corridor and up through level on level of the labs; despairing screams shivering over the archaeological digs, reverberating across the poisoned surface of the planet Olduvai ... read full excerpt from Doom ebook
