The Island Of The Damned: A Descent Into Madness | Dark Fantasy

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A battered crew of sailors survives a storm and washes up on an unmapped island, where pale, eerily cheerful “natives” greet them with fruit, roasted fish, and drink, chattering in a language the sailors can’t understand. That night they wake paralyzed in a ring around a bonfire, passed from hand to hand as the islanders dance and press black, slimy, foul-tasting lumps to their lips in time with the pounding surf, forcing them to swallow. The next morning, the crew finds themselves crammed into crude bamboo-and-bone cages overlooking the beach; when one cuts his hand on the bars, his wound doesn’t bleed red, but oozes a thin thread of the same tar-black slime they were fed.

They quickly learn they can clench their jaws or try to choke the stuff down, but any resistance makes the natives come back with twice as much the following night, and small, pale crab-things and beaked birds gather around the cages to snap at any spilled morsels, biting the sailors’ lips and tongues to drive every drop of the slime inside. Each day, helpless in the cages, they watch the islanders stand waist-deep in the surf, letting something unseen brush against their legs before returning with wicker baskets brimming with wet, writhing black lumps that are scraped into bowls and carried toward the fire. One of the crew starts to change faster than the rest, his skin yellowing to the same waxy pallor as the natives, his veins darkening, his eyes going flat and reflective; after he vanishes from his cage overnight, he appears the next evening among the dancers, smiling blandly as he helps feed the others.

As more cages stand empty and familiar faces reappear in the village with new voices and new eyes, the remaining sailors realize the ritual is counting down—by the time the moon waxes again, none of them will remember having been anything but islanders. In a desperate bid, the protagonist and a few still-mostly-human crewmates break free during a storm, fight through the ring of chieftain and attendants—an unnervingly calm elder whose skin leaks slow beads of black from tiny pores, flanked by the scavenging creatures— and shove a half-dismantled longboat into the surf. As they row away under lashing rain, the islanders line the shoreline in perfect silence, lifting bowls of the black substance to their mouths and swallowing in unison; the sea around the fleeing boat darkens and thickens, tugging at the hull as if trying to pull them back, and the survivors can’t shake the taste of tar on their tongues or the sick certainty that some part of the island is already inside them, waiting for its own high tide.

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