You know when you hear creaks when you're home alone, not knowing where they came from? When you are sitting in your room, trying to go to sleep, but the creaking from the hallway, and sometimes above you, makes you listen for more. Makes you want to hear for another. The silence of your room making it seem louder than it is. You don't know where it comes from. You don't know why it scares you. You tell your family, and they say its the house settling. But you know, you know for a fact that it isn't. You hope one day they hear it. You hope that they will believe you. But maybe it's all in your head. Maybe it's just your imagination. Maybe, it is all fake. You listen every night. And it's there, every night. The same sound. The same time. Until you hear something after the creak.
A voice.
JE LEEST
Short Horror Stories
HorrorHorror is a form of fiction that intends to scare or disturb through a protagonist's experience with an uncanny or menacing force. Horror evokes an emotional, psychological, or physical response (i.e., fear) within the reader and intrudes on a reade...
