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- Categories:Animal, Short Story
- Title ""They'll Never Find You Now"", In "ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S
WITCH'S BREW, 1977", (C) 1977, British, Magic, Fantasy, Horror
Description
One of the very best transformation stories I've ever read. In
rural England, a brutal thief who has just scored a big robbery is
fleeing from both the police and his former partners in crime, whom
he has doublecrossed to take all of the cash. He is more afraid of
his compatriots than the law. He stops at an isolated cottage in
the forest, the only inhabitant of which is a seemingly sweet
little old lady. Threatening her, he demands that she provide him
with something to drink. LOL (Little Old Lady) complies, by giving
him some of her "slow gin", for which she is widely famous. The
thief becomes drunk almost immediately (an unusual reaction for
him) but doesn't lose consciousness and reminds LOL that, drunk or
sober, he can break her in half with his hands. Unconcerned, LOL
begins cooking something on her stove while chanting in a language
he doesn't understand. All at once, "a rearranging of molecule and
cell" begins in the thief, and he's startled to abruptly find
himself a tiny green frog. LOL carries him to her doorstep (he
gazes up at her with "mournful bulging eyes", meaning he still has
his own mind) and sets him down. When he doesn't move, she uses her
foot to flip him into the yard, and he goes hopping away. Her final
words to the once-human thief are, "Don't worry, they'll never find
you now." A true CLASSIC! Find it, read it, enjoy it!
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originally posted by Macaroni on 2000-05-20, no edits, entryid=5418
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