Stranger | Halloween Vault 3D Entry Book

Trick or.. trick?

'Are you.. sure we should go there?' I ask, uncertainty clearly echoing through my voice. Emma, a random girl from school that my boyfriend, Kevin just introduced to me, simply laughs at my question and stops in her tracks to look at me.

'Of course we're sure! Nothing will happen anyways, don't be a scaredy-cat,' she rolls her eyes and turns back around, walking up the hill towards the tall house on top.

'You can't back away from it now Rose, you promised you'd come along,' Kevin smirks and wraps an arm around me, pulling me closer to him.

He's right, I promised that I'd go trick-or-treating with them, but I didn't know we were going to explore a haunted house. I have a really weird feeling about this.

The clock hits midnight when we reach the house. 'Perfect timing,' Emma says and reaches for some candy from her bag, then eats it to regain her energy from all the walking.

'So.. if nobody opens the door, we'll just leave, right?' I ask yet another question, trying to clear my thoughts and calm down.

'Yes, it's not like we're having a sleepover here. Relax,' Kevin chuckles.

We all walk over to the door, each of our steps sound louder the closer we get, or at least it feels like it. I stand back behind Kevin and Emma knocks on the door. After that, there's silence. Suddenly, the door opens with a loud creak, causing us to jump.

Nobody comes out of the door, it just stays open, almost as if someone's inviting us in.

'Should we go inside?' Kevin asks, fear dominating in his voice. Emma looks unsure for a second, but then nods and walks inside. I thought we're not going inside? This idea scares me, yet I still follow her without a word, curiousity pulling me in.

We walk into a large empty hall with three doors on the other side of it. All three doors look the same: old, black, covered in dust.

'Are they making us guess which door is the right one? Maybe it's some kind of a puzzle,' Kevin thinks out loud.

'And how are we supposed to know which one is the right one?' Emma asks, crossing her arms. 'Maybe we're supposed to guess?' Kevin responds again, examining each door.

'Then that's not a puzzle, but a dumb guessing game,' Emma sighs and walks closer to the door in the middle. Without much thought, she touches the doorknob and opens the door. She looks inside and then walks in. We once again follow her.

Once we walk in, the door closes behind us. It's dark, but a single candle on the side lits up the room enough for us to see at least something. It's another long, tight hall with multiple doors on the sides.

'Let's just go through random doors until we find a way out, there is no way for us to know which way to go,' Kevin shrugs and walks through the door closest to us on the right and we just follow, knowing we don't have much of a choice.

We end up entering the same, identical hall. We enter through another door. Then another one. Soon enough, we realise we're stuck in a loop. All these doors somehow lead to the same exact place.

'What do we do now?' I ask, stopping all three of us to come up with a plan of some sort.

'I don't know. Hopefully if we walk long enough, we'll find the right way out,' Emma says, but you can clearly tell that she herself doesn't even believe what she said.

We continue walking through doors. Suddenly however, something changes. We walk through a door and we find ourselves in the same hall as always, but there is a tall, skinny woman standing in the middle. She has long black hair and she's standing in the middle of the hall, staring at us. She doesn't say anything, nor does she move.

'Hello..?' Kevin begins talking to her, but we get no response from her. Her stare gives me goosebumps. We slowly walk past her towards a door. As we walk, her eyes follow us. We enter through another door and we're once again in the same hall, and the woman is there again, but this time she's more pale that before.

'Let's just.. keep walking,' Emma says and does as she said. We of course follow her.

The hall is once again the same, but the woman.. she's covered in blood now. Emma quickly pulls us through another door, not wanting us to pay much attention to the woman.

When we walk through, the woman is there again and she has now turned her head too instead of only her eyes moving to look at us. Her body is becoming deformed, her fingers, arms and legs are longer. Whenever we move, her head turns towards our direction.

We ignore her and enter another room. And of course, she looks even worse. Her eyes are completely white, her chin is stretched down, making her mouth bigger and wide open. Her arms and legs are twisted outwards and her head is twitching to the side.

'We shouldn't walk any further, Emma!' I yell, fully panicking at this point. 'Well, I'm not staying here with this.. thing!' Emma yells back and enters another room. As soon as she walks in, the door closes right behind her.

'Emma, no!' Kevin yells and walks towards the door, trying to open it. It's locked.

'Let's go through a different door, we might be able to find her,' he says and goes through a door next to the one Emma went through. The door also closes after him.

'Oh no..' I whisper, my hands and body shaking in fear. I turn around and look at the woman.

When I look at her, she.. smiles at me.

Her smile makes my skin crawl. I start crying and backing away from her to the other side of the hall. When I hit the wall, I realise that the door we walked through before is gone. There's only a wall there now.

While I was focusing on the door that is now gone, the woman managed to get closer to me. Her smile now turns into a grin.

Suddenly, she launches a me. The last thing I can let out is a scream before everything turns black.

We were given a choice: To pick between the three doors. But maybe we should've gone through the fourth door: the door at the entrance.