Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer IKlimt Irrlichter (Will-O'-The Wisps)Klimt Hygieia (detail from Medicine)Klimt Houses at Unterach on the Attersee
the front page, under the frightening headline, were two photographs: a publicity shot of Ghost Dad, and the front gate of the estate.Reluctant to read the report for fear that reading it would make it come true, Fric glanced at the bottom of to the door.He gasped for breath, though not because of his asthma. His heart boomed louder than the thunder that earlier had knocked through the sky.The Times lay on the floor by the overturned hamper.As Fric watched, the newspaper exploded off the Persian carpet as if caught in a wild wind, although not so much as a faint draft could [430] be felt. The several sections of the Times unfoldedthe column and saw that the story continued on page 8. He turned to page 8 in search of the picture most important to him.And there he was.Under his photo were these words: Aelfric Manheim, 10, missing since Tuesday night.As he stared in shock at the photo, his black-and-white image morphed into that of the mirror man, Mysterious Caller, his guardian angel: the cold face, the pale gray eyes.Fric tried to throw the Times down, but was unable to let go of it, not because his hands were moist with fear but because the newspaper seemed to have acquired a static charge, and clung to him.In the picture, Mysterious Caller became animated, as if this were not a newspaper photo but a miniature TV screen, and he spoke warningly from the Los Angeles Times: “Moloch is coming.”Then with no recollection of having taken a step, Fric found that he had crossed the rose room