Fate Knocks at the Door Book PDF Download

And then It struck. Bedient was sprawled upon the deck. Blood broke
from his nostrils and ears; from the little veins in his eyes and
forehead. Parts of his body turned black afterward from the mysterious
pressure at this moment. He felt he was being born again into another
world…. The core of that Thing made of wind smashed the _Truxton_–a
smash of air. It was like a thick sodden cushion, large as a
battle-ship–hurled out of the North. The men had to breathe it–that
seething havoc which tried to twist their souls free. When passages to
the lungs were opened, the dreadful compression of the air crushed
through, tearing the membrane of throat and nostril.

Water now came over the ship in huge tumbling walls. Bedient slid over
the deck, like a bar of soap from an overturned pail–clutching, torn
loose, clutching again…. Then the Thing eased to a common hurricane
such as men know. Gray flicked into the blackness, a corpse-gray sky,
and the ocean