The Ghostly Mansion

It was a night of unusual gloom, with a black, ghastly mansion that laid vacant and foreboding as Henry walked up the short stairs alongside his older sister, Megan. They had been invited to a masquerade party by an old friend of their father's. This was strange because their father had been dead for over 10 years and neither one of them knew their father's friends. That wasn't the only thing strange about the invitation, but it also seemed that the invitation led them to a mansion, that had been inactive for years. People had said that the owner's wife had fallen deathly ill and there was no telling when she would get better. Rumors had spread about his wife dying or being close to death. This was the first time in a very long time that the mansion was active.