The Midnight Visitor is a chilling horror story about Brian, a man who lives in an old, isolated house. One night, as the silence of the evening envelops the house, Brian hears mysterious knocks at the front door. When he opens it, no one is there. However, as time goes on, strange things begin to happen-lights flicker, footsteps echo through empty hallways, and shadowy figures dart in the corner of his eyes.
Fear gradually creeps in as Brian realizes that the knocks aren't the only thing visiting him at midnight. Something unseen, yet undeniably real, starts to haunt him. Trapped in his confusion, Brian tries to uncover the identity of the entity visiting him each night, but the reader into a world of mounting terror, building up to a shocking and unexpected ending.
When a dark situation leads Theo to the quiet village of Eden's Gate, where the residents are odd and the pool of friends severely lacking, he's less than thrilled. The town is a miserable means to an end. And, to make matters even worse, he's pretty sure the house is haunted. Cold spots, flickering lights, a shadow that won't stop following him- a recipe for a haunting, and for a complete disaster.
Sam is a vengeful spirit, cursed to walk the halls of his own murder scene for the rest of eternity, doomed to an afterlife of dismal solitude. And then his favourite resident goes and dies, the house is given to new people, and Sam discovers - quite by accident - that the boy sleeping in his room can see him.
And he is the only one who can help Sam solve his murder.
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Status: Complete
Story length: 40,000 words
ONC 2023 Prompt:
• They were not real, everyone told me they were not real. But why are they here? Why are they trying to talk to me? Why are they calling me the ONE? Why are they staring at me like that? (23)