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THE ALIEN FACTOR

THE ALIEN FACTOR

STAN LEE

with STAN TIMMONS

ibooks

new york

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Edited by Steven A. Roman

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Interior design by Westchester Book Composition

12 OCTOBER 1942

NEAR MESQUER, FRANCE

T HE SHRIEK rose up in the middle of Marcel’s dream like a furi-

ous dragon breathing vengeance and ﬁre. The earth trembled,

and a blinding light slashed between the seams of the farm-

house shutters. He blinked, thinking at ﬁrst that it was the light from

a Bosch truck, but the shriek was nothing like an engine. It grew

louder, painfully louder, until it deafened him. He slapped his hands

over his ears and screamed, but he had no voice against the sound.

The shafts of light swept across his room like white-hot swords,

momentarily lighting the picture of his mother and father on the

bureau, his threadbare work gloves, and his plaster ﬁgure of Joan of

Arc. The gilt on her upraised sword ﬂashed and her serene face

seemed to move, to look at him before the light passed to the wall,

the door, the chair on which he removed his sabots, and he just had

time to think:

It is God, Marcel thought. It is the angel. I am to be anointed, like

St. Joan. I will save France. I will save my father.

But the shriek exploded into an earthquake, the blast tearing the

shutters off their hinges and tossing him from his bed. He landed

hard on the stone ﬂoor. The light ebbed and the shriek was replaced

by a groan, weakening, weakening. He raised himself and made out

that his parents’ picture had been knocked ﬂat. His gloves and

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