The Horror Collection

Nightmares Fom The Cradle

Story 2: Nightmares From The Cradle

I shuffle myself off my bed and sit on the edge, its 2am, i hate babies, why do they have to cry and annoy my sleep? I get up and wipe my eyes and my vision goes fuzzy for a second but then returns. "Im coming! Calm down! Now what? Milk? Nappy change?" I yell across the hall where the baby sleeps. I hold the railings of the second floor for support and then enter the whining babies room.

"What does little dumpling want?" I say trying to sound as cheerful as possible when in reality i feel like stuffing a sock in this babies mouth. I pick her up and prop her on my chest her head laying on my shoulder, "there there" i say and pat her back. I yawn and start to walk around the room with her on my shoulder. She goes awfully quiet and is barely moving. I feel a sharp pain on my shoulder and quickly move her away to examine it but as i do my eyes meet her face, she opens her mouth and her teeth have been replaced with rows of needle length fangs and her blue eyes are now large black pits, she stares at me making my body freeze and roars a ghostly screech that echoes throughout the room.

I let go of her and run out of the room, i scream and hear her screech behind me i turn at the stairs and shes crawling towards me, but not like a human, almost wolf like. "Whats wrong with you!?" I say half sobbing and all i get in response is a haunting screech. I run down the stairs and see a tall glass candle holder on a dresser against the wall.

I grab the candle holder and run back to the stairs, she is halfway down the stairs and her deep black eyes pierce mine. She roars and then lunges forward off the stairs and while shes in mid air i close my eyes and swing the candle holder, it goes silent. I open my eyes and see shes laying motionless against the wall, some sort of black liquid oozes from her instead of blood.

I tap her side to make sure the threat is gone and just as my foot is inches away her head turns all the way around to greet me, i hear some bones crack in her neck and she gives me a smile revealing her syringe like teeth. I try and turn and run but I'm stopped in my tracks, i feel her teeth enter my leg and gnaw away, i let out a loud scream and start to cry from the pain. I fall with a thud and look at my leg, shes entered her rows of long razor teeth onto my leg and my blood has painted them a ruby red. She looks up at me and her pale white face makes mine shudder, its like looking into my worst nightmare, my worst fear, her cloudy black eyes sink into her head and her long teeth still lodged in my leg drain my blood away.

I start to feel dizzy and weak from the blood loss and pain, i tilt my head back and close my eyes but my life has just been regained.

I open my eyes and I'm in a hospital bed, tubes running through my nose and body "are you ok? I think you were dreaming" a ladies voice say and i look up seeing a familiar face, my mum, her dark red curls coming down to her shoulders and emerald green eyes glistening from what looks like tears, i remember now, I'm dying, but not like that. I'm dying, in the way that kills you the worst. I'm dying from a disease and these were my last days, my final breaths, and if death thought that wasn't enough they gave me my final dream. No, not a dream, my worst nightmare.

"Everything's going to be all right" my mum says and her tears stream down

The machine stops beeping and i suck in my final breath, i hear my mums scream and panic. She grabs my face and keeps telling me to come back. My eyes shut and i say my last goodbye to life.

"Goodbye..."