Simone stopped at the second floor landing and aimed the beam of light down a hallway. The weak illumination made it difficult to tell for sure, but she sensed the hallway was a longish one. There was something about that darkness beyond the edge of the lighted area that suggested significant depth. As she stood there and contemplated the darkness, she began to perceive other qualities within it, sinister things. She told herself it was just regular darkness, a mundane absence of light, nothing more. The sense that it pulsed with a malign supernatural intelligence was just her fear sparking paranoid delusions. Terry joined her on the landing and said, “See anything?” Simone jumped at the sound of his voice. “Jesus! You scared me.” “Sorry.” Simone sighed. “It’s okay.” It really wasn’t. Her heart was still slamming in her chest from the fright he’d given her. But she knew he hadn’t startled her on purpose and so chose not to rebuke him again. Besides, she was too creeped out by this house and the mystery of her missing friends to risk upsetting him. If she’d said anything too mean, he might have elected to head back out to the SUV and leave her up here alone. And now that she was up here, she wasn’t sure she could face down that deep darkness without someone with her.
What do You think about Christmas Eve On Haunted Hill?
