In the Mouth of Madness Page #2

Mr. Harglow will see you now.

Thank you.

You're not listening to me.|l needed it yesterday.

lf you wait any longer, it'll be|all over the front page.

Get it done!

Jackson Harglow, Mr. Trent.|l'm pleased to meet you.

lt's a pleasure.

Excuse the commotion.

We have something|of a crisis going on.

Everybody out now, please.

l need time with Mr. Trent.

Have Sylvia hold the calls,|and you get Linda in here.

That was great.|l almost left myself.

Sit down, please.

l am a little short|on patience these days.

So, Mr. Trent,|are youfamiliar with Arcane?

Well, aside from the fact...

that you're insured|by the company l work for...

l never heard of Arcane.|l'm sorry.

You read books?

Linda Styles,John Trent.

Linda reads books for a living.|She's one of our best editors.

Since she joined the firm...

she's been handling|Sutter Cane exclusively.

lsn't he the guy|that writes that horror crap?

Maybe he's too sophisticated|for you.

Sutter Cane happens to be...

this century's|most widely read author.

You can forget|about Stephen King.

Cane outsells them all.

So what happened|to this cash cow of yours?

Cane disappeared two months ago|without a trace.

The police|have turned up nothing.

Who was the last person|to hearfrom him?

His agent.

Cane mailed him|several chapters...

of his new book,|oh, not two weeks ago.

Plain brown wrapper.|No return address.

Oh, gee, l'm sorry.|You don't mind, do you?

What'd the agent have to say?

You heard what he had to say.

What are you talking about?

l understand you were there...

when the poor man went crazy|in midtown Manhattan.

You witnessed the shooting,|l believe.

That lunatic with the ax?|That was Cane's agent?

Hard to believe, isn't it?

Yeah,well,you'd think a guy|that outsells Stephen King...

couldfind|better representation.

Excuse me.

lt's just a little joke.

Well,we're not in the mood.

l'll see you out, Mr. Trent.

Thank you.

Cane is a billion-dollar|franchise.

He's the tent pole|to this company.

We've already sold the film|rights to his new book...

as well as publication rights|in eighteen languages--

The book you can'tfind?

Well, his agentfound it,|at least part of it.

You think he took one look|at this latest work of art...

and went ax-happy|in broad daylight?

l think it's great.

lt's great promotion for Arcane,|great publicity.

This was not a publicity stunt.

You were there.

Cane's writing has been known|to have an effect...

on his less stable readers.

An effect? Like what?

Well, disorientation,|memory loss...

severe paranoid reaction.

People pay money|to feel like that? lt's cute.

Put it in the press kit.

We need you.

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