Short horror stories

10 Steps

There once was a girl named Annabelle who wanted to buy a house, since she just moved out. She was driving down a street named Rottwood st. She was driving looking at all the houses, she passed a white one and said "that could get dirty easily". She kept driving and saw a black one and said "too dark". She kept driving and saw a stone one she said "too cold". Then at the end of the street she saw a big grey bricked and black walled house. She said " look at that one, I like it." So she parked at the side of the road. She walked up to the door and there was a sales man. He had a dark cloak covering his face, and he had a raspy creepy voice. He said "what are you doing here?". She said " I saw the for sale sign and I'd like to buy this house". He then told her that she can have it it's all hers. He disappeared.

Annabelle called the truck with all her stuff and the movers came. She settled in with her bed, couch and picture frames, etc. She was sitting in the living room when all of a sudden she heard a noise. It was coming for the front door. She went towards the door and opened it. She saw the neighbours with food and wine. They looked like happy people but they also looked scared. Annabelle said her thanks but before they left, one of the neighbours said, "Be careful". She didn't know what it meant so she smiled and closed the door.

Later, Annabelle sat on the couch and watched a bit of her tv. She heard a noise, but this time coming from the basement. She was a little scared so she took a flashlight with her. When she got to the bottom of the stairs a chill went down her spine. It was cold. She looked around and saw nothing but a support pole. She shined the flashlight everywhere and then saw a crawl space. She thought I can't fit in there. But she went anyways. She saw a light switch. "Seriously this is the only light in the basement?"She questioned. She flicked the light on and she saw boxes and and a small table. On the table there were a ton of pictures but none in frames. She saw a lot with a family of three children an older sister, a younger brother and a baby sister. The picture looked very old. Annabelle flipped it over to the back side and saw the year... "1942?!" She then saw a picture of the baby it was the only one that stood out, since it was the only one with one kid in it.

She turned off the light and went upstairs.

When she went into her bed to sleep she heard noises. The sound of banging cupboards. She went downstairs to check and nothing was there.

That night she dreamt about something so weird.

"Mama I don't know where vivvy went she's gone!" Mama ran downstairs and checked the play room. Nothing. I can't believe Vivian just disappeared.

When Annabelle woke up she decided to go to the library to investigate on the house.
When she arrived at the library she asked the librarian, "Do you know where I can find the old newspapers or information of what happened on Rottwood st.?"
"Yes, what year are you looking for deary?" The librarian questioned.
" Um, the year 1942, maybe 43?"
"Ok follow me hunny"
Annabelle followed the librarian to a room full of newspapers and two computers, and lots of files. "Thank you." Said Annabelle as the librarian was leaving the room. Annabelle was searching through some files and saw,
Year:1944
Address:13 Rottwood st.
Event: classified
Event classified? What does that mean? Just then Annabelle heard something and turned around. She saw the man in the cloak. "What are you doing here?" Annabelle questioned in shock but a little shy. " I'm here to explain"
"Explain what?" Annabelle still a little freaked out asked. " I need to tell you what happened in that house you just bought" "bought? I didn't buy it, you said I could take it no charge" explained Annabelle. "Oh yes but I must warn you."
The man told Annabelle that there was a family that lived there long ago they had three children. An oldest sister named Marie, a brother named Charles and a baby sister named Vivian.
Vivian, wait, vivvy. I must have dreamt of what happened!
The man continued saying there was an accident. "An accident?!" Annabelle interrupted. He continued with, the fire was so large the whole neighbourhood could see it. "A fire? Then how's the house still there?"
"No no, the tree on the front lawn was set on fire, it was a big maple tree." He kept talking and said that when the tree was on fire it distracted everyone. It was night time so everyone was sleeping. They all ran outside and called the fire trucks, but while this was happening the baby Vivian was still inside the house. It was suppose to be a robbery but the men couldn't get caught because of a guard dog or worse... A crying baby. The man told Annabelle that the men put a bag over the baby's face to stop her from crying. I didn't work so they pulled out a knife and cut her up. They didn't cut her into pieces they just cut her all over her body so she'd bleed out. When the fire was put out and the robbers were done everyone went back inside. The mother Carmella went to check on the baby and found her dead on the floor. The mother apparently screamed so loud the whole street could hear it. The mother was so in shock that she went to bed saying nothing. In the morning the mother remembered and went into the baby's room. When she got there, nothing was left but a bloodstain on the floor. Since then every family or person who have lived there said they hear things. The man took off his cloak and Annabelle saw an Oh so familiar face. She asked, "what's your name sir?" He replied with, "Charles".

That night when Annabelle was home she decided to cook herself a nice meal. She watched a show.

Then she headed up to bed. When she was lying down and starting to drift offs he heard something... One step, I'm gonna get you.
She got out of bed and looked down the stairs she saw nothing.

The next night she heard something again similar to the first time. Two steps, I'm coming. She closed her door and locked it that night.

The next night she thought if she stayed up she wouldn't hear it. But she did, three steps I'll get you.

The fourth night of hearing voices she said " it's ok this is just my wild imagination". So when she closed her eyes she heard, four steps I'm getting closer.

Next night it happened again but this time a chill kind of went throughout her body. Five steps I'm half way there.
Half way? That's what scared Annabelle. She decided that the next night she'll put cameras up.

The next night with the cameras she still heard it, six steps, I'm almost there. In the morning she checked the cameras and saw a little shadow crawling up the stairs. She dropped the camera and said, "Vivvy?!"

She put some pictures on the seventh stair guessing that the demon Vivvy  would go there next the she waited. At 3:00 am she heard, seventh step, look here. Annabelle ran as fast as she could down to the seventh step and saw the pictures torn apart with thorns and blood on them.

The next day she went to the library to see if Charles were there, he wasn't. So Annabelle went home and stayed alert.

That night she heard something again, eight steps I'm almost there. She again just layed there in a locked room.

The next night she heard Vivvy again but this time with a scarier voice. Nine steps one more to go. She screamed and then it all went away.

Except on the last night she heard scratching and screeching and then she heard, 10th steps you're dead! She looked at the stairwell and saw a scratched up zombie/ demon baby sitting there with a knife in hand. Annabelle screamed and ran into her room closing the door behind her then she hid in the closet. She heard a door creek open slowly and she heard giggling. She started to silently cry. She saw a latch to lock the closet. But the hacking away at the wood with an axe was a small dark figure. Annabelle took the fire extinguisher and sprayed the creature. She ran downstairs to get the phone to call 911. Nobody answered the phone so she stood there crying. Next thing she knew was standing there seeing Charles say, "I warned you." And Annabelle fell to the floor with the feeling of knives slashing ever inch of her skin.

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