My wife was shaking me quietly. I looked around the cabin.
"Something is tapping on the porch." Then I heard it too. I grabbed my ax and walked to to the door. I opened the door expecting to see a raccoon or a skunk but instead found a boy around 10 years old. He stared at me for a moment, then bolted down the path through the woods. I chased him. He was losing me but I heard him tumble to the ground. I leapt on top of him in a rage.
"Why were you knocking on my porch?" I screamed. "My uncles told me to." He stammered. I was no longer anger, but confused. "But why?" I asked. "To get you out of the cabin."
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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...
