The world's shortest ghost story: Scary, or not?

[Modem Butterfly]

Poll question: The world's shortest ghost story: Scary, or not?

He opened the closet, checked under the bed, locked the window, and threw the deadbolt on the door. Then he got into bed and blew out the candle. A voice from the darkness said, "Now we're both locked in for the night,"

[northzax]

1. female voice or male voice?

and was he missing a hooker?

[Midnight Rambler]

2. Sounds more like the intro to a romance novel than a ghost story to me

[xmas74]

6. I'd read that romance.

Sounds f*cked up-just like my life!

[gollygee]

3. I think that's a great start of a short story!

Scary but would be great if it were continued :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Where's the car chase? How do you expect this American to enjoy

it if it doesn't have a car chase? Or boobies? Or a soundtrack by Celine or MC DJ JazzyHammerIceScratcher?

Yours is too much like a story that you have to think about.

Are you French?

It should just be guns, car chase, shoot, boobies, car chase, sex, hit song sung, cliche final pun, credits.

[terrya]

5. Very good! Short and scary! Now if Stephen King wrote that....

it would be 1,257 pages long.

[Zuni]

16. at least

and there would be a bizzarre collection of subplots that do very little to advance the story

[realisticphish]

7. not really

it didnt say he didnt FIND anyone

[In_The_Wind]

8. Great - now how will we all sleep tonight ?

glad I'm not all alone :scared:

[uppityperson]

9. People can lick too

Another good scary story line.

[Modem Butterfly]

10. That one makes my skin crawl

:scared:

[Lars39]

12. That one STILL gives me the willies.

I was at camp. :scared:

[ulysses]

11. I've got a shorter one.

The last man on earth sat alone in his room. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.

:7

[Modem Butterfly]

17. Clever

;)

[ulysses]

20. well, it's not mine.

For some reason, I want to say it was Ambrose Bierce, but don't quote me on that. :hi:

[goodboy]

13. I thought this was the world's shortest ghost story...

A man reading a book about ghosts on a train notices an elderly woman staring at him.

"Do you believe in ghosts?" he asked?


"Yes!" she said, and disappeared.

[Modem Butterfly]

14. Ooooh, that is a good one!

My nephew told me one when he was six. All he could remember was the stinger, "He was alone in the dark and he wanted a light and suddenly a hand lit a match" Not bad for a kid not yet in double digits.

[goodboy]

18. no doubt about it..(nt)

[Zuni]

15. I enjoyed it

but I felt it was more funny, like a joke, than scary like a ghost story.

:hi:

[Modem Butterfly]

22. The best ghost stories always are

Otherwise, they're overwhelmed by tragedy. We are talking about dead people here. ;)

[Roland99]

19. JimmyJeff is the ghost?

;)

[Jara sang]

21. Did you write that? I liked it.

And yes it was creepy. If you wrote that, it's good, keep at it. :thumbsup:

[Modem Butterfly]

23. I can't take credit for it, but thanks all the same!