The horror that is LOVE

Neighbour

Neighbour is a scary story about a kind old lady who is very lonely and a mean-spirited neighbor who wants to get rid of him. 

Old Ms.Anna  was a garbage collector. She lived alone in an old hut with only her beloved pet cat, Meow for a company. Ever since her wife died, she had been very, very lonely.

Ms.Anna adored children, even though she never had any of her own. She would collect all of the broken toys and torn clothes she found in garbage cans and take them home with her. Then, she repaired them and handed them out to all the kids in the area.

She also gave the children candy and allowed them to play in her garden of roses that she cherished the most. Watching the kids laughing and having fun made the old woman feel less depressed or lonely.

One of his neighbors Mr. Jamie, however, did not like Ms. Anna at all. She lived right to Ms. Anna's house and always found her a tat bit too annoying.

He thought the house was an eyesore, to begin with, toys scattered all over the garden and he was also irritated that he has to listen to the noise of kids playing and dogs barking. It irritated him so much that he was determined to drive the old woman out of the neighborhood.

One night, long after all the neighbors had gone to bed, Mr. Jamie sneaked into their gardens and destroyed their gardens and anything else they could destroy in their front yard except for Ms.Anna's. In the morning, he blamed the mess on Ms.Anna's dogs. The neighbors complained to the town council and the police came to confiscate Ms.Anna's dogs.

Ms.Anna was devastated but she adopted a cat instead hoping that would keep her company instead. Seeing that Ms.Anna was still happy with her way, Mr.Jamie cooked up another plan.

Mr. Elliot pulled some strings with the town council, called in some favors and had Ms.Anna fired from his job. Then, he started to spread vile rumors about the old woman so that all of the parents would tell their children to stay away from her. His plan was a success and pretty soon, Ms.Anna was alone.

Every evening, when the old woman had dinner, he placed a photograph of his dead wife on the kitchen table. Somehow, it made her feel less lonely if he could talk the picture, as if Diana, her wife was still there with her on the dinner table.

"I don't understand it, Diana," Ms.Anna said. "Everyone was so nice to me before, but now this... No job. No dogs. No children. No one to make toys for. No one to keep me company. Well, never mind. We've always got each other, haven't we, my dear? That's all that matters."

However, Mr. Jamie wasn't finished. He was determined to force the old woman to move out and he had saved the worst for last. 

On Valentine's day, he bought a lot of cards and wrote horrible, insulting poems on them. At the bottom of each one, he signed the name of a child in the area. When he was finished, he put them in envelopes and sent them all to the old woman.

When Ms.Anna opened his mail and saw what was written on the cards, she was horrified.

"Noisy as bees,
loud is a bell...
pungent is perfume,
but you really smell."

"A rose is pretty
if its owner waters it.
But our town isn't
Because your presence ruins it."

"Some people stay in the village.
Some people live on the outskirts.
Why don't you do us a favor?
Jump in the river and drown"

The cruel poems made Ms.Anna' so depressed that she didn't even have the energy to leave her house. All of the joy had gone from her life. She spent all his time indoors, with no one to talk to except the photograph of her dead wife.

Nobody had seen the old woman for two weeks and the neighbors started to become curious. They knocked on her front door, but there was no answer. Eventually, they decided they would have to check on her, so one of the men broke a window and climbed inside. He was shocked by what he found.

Ms.Anna was hanging by the neck from a length of rope. She had become so depressed that she had taken her own life.

They buried her in a cemetery on the outskirts of town. The grave was right next to her dead wife. All of the neighbors attended the funeral and the children placed wreaths on the coffin. Mr. Jamie was at the funeral as well, standing at the graveside with a smirk on his face as they lowered the coffin into the earth.

One year later, on February the 14th, just as the church bells tolled midnight, something very strange happened. The soil on Ms.Anna's grave began to shift and move. A hand emerged from the earth... a fetid, rotting hand... and something crawled out of the grave.

Mr. Jamie was at home that night, sitting by the fire. He was writing a few Valentine's Day cards that he planned to send to some wealthy widows. He heard a knock at his front door, but when he got up to answer it, there was no one there. Then, as he stood in the doorway, peering into the darkness, a foul stench hit his nostrils.

For the next few days, nobody saw Mr. Jamie. After a week had passed, the police came to check on him. What they found made them recoil in horror.

Mr. Elliot's corpse was sprawled across his desk, his face and body covered in blood. There was a large crumpled piece of paper lying on the desk beside him. It read:

"You were vile and mean,
Right from the beginning.
Now you really have no..."

At the bottom of the note, wrapped up in the paper, they found a bloody human heart.

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