Midnight Mist

Part 1

I don't know why but the memory always chases him. He is terrified. He is shivering. He is running for his own life but what if I say his own self is following him?

It was a battered old book, bound in red leather. When Mortimer was twelve years old, he found the book in his father's library. When the rest of his large old house was covered in darkness, he took the book to his bedroom to read by candlelight. The clock ticked in the hall below and the sea roared outside.

Mortimer was fascinated by the battered old book. It contained a story called the "Midnight Mist". There was an illustration on page twenty one, which threatened him for some unknown reason. The illustration showed an dark forest, a railway path went by the middle of the forest. There was a dark tunnel, at night it was lit by a dull. A single man stood under the lamp, his face turned towards the black mouth of the tunnel. Mortimer never read beyond the page twenty one.