Ghost - Scary Stories

VIDEO AVAILABLE HERE: A Halloween horror story. Part two of two. Ghost, Scary Stories.

I opened the door.A year ago tonight, at midnight, on a dead street, I turned the latch and looked at what was standing on my porch. It was a man who lived four doors down when I was a girl. He kept bees. He gave the whole street honey at Christmas. He died when I was twelve. He was not a day older, and he was smiling, and he said: come and see the bees, love.And standing in my own open doorway, I finally understood the thing my mother's rules had hidden from me my whole life. In forty years, not one of them ever tried to come in. Not one ever pushed at the door.They were never trying to get in.There is one more rule. I didn't tell you in part one, because you weren't ready, and because you needed to practise first. You've been answering your door all evening, haven't you. Every knock. You're very good at it now.The conclusion of The Doorbell. Keep your light on.

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Now with Video: A Halloween horror story. Part one of two. Ghost, Scary Stories.

There are four rules on my street, and my mother taught them to me when I was small. Keep your porch light on, all night. Answer every knock, no matter how late. Admire the costume, and mean it. Give them whatever they ask for, and never turn anyone away.The early hours are sweet. The pumpkins, the princesses, the parents waiting at the end of the path. It's later that the costumes start getting better. Older. Heavier. The ones that come alone, up the dark path, and stand, and wait, and don't always say the words. I've gotten very good at working out what the late ones want.A year ago tonight, the street was dead by midnight. Every porch light still burning. Nobody left outside.And my doorbell rang.Part one of two. Both parts are out tonight. Keep your light on, You're going to need to be good at it.

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The sequence takes hours now. And the figure is no longer only at the foot of the bed or on the stairs. It is in every room, ahead of her, waiting.She was deep in the steps when the knock came. Not the figure. A human knock, low on the door, and the voice from the phone. It's so cold out here, Mum. I've been coming for two years.Then the voice said it had found something in the spring, in her closet. A small red coat.The finale of The Instructions. Part 4 of 4.

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The rule is simple. If you lose your place, you start over from the front door, no matter how far in you were.She lost her place upstairs, an hour in. When she turned to go back down, the figure was on the stairs — standing on the only path to the beginning.Then her sister Kath let herself in with their mother's old key, stood in the hallway looking at the turned mirrors and the paths worn into the floorboards, and started to cry. There's no one here, she said. There was never anything here. It's just you.For one moment, she believed her.Part 3 of 4.

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The steps grow. Nobody tells you that at the start. The fear learns the gaps you leave, and every gap you close becomes a new step.

Now there are the mirrors — every one turned to the wall before dark, because she looked once, in the hall, and the hall behind her reflection was not empty. And there is the phone, which must never be answered once the steps have begun.

This week it rang four times. On the fourth, she answered. A young woman's voice, crying, calling her Mum, saying her own name into the line.The name went somewhere and did not stay.

Part 2 of 4.

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