Are You Scared? You Should Be. Anything Can Happen On Halloween.
Psst, you there, sitting at your computer. Don’t you know it’s Halloween? While you’re blinded by the light of your screen, anything can creep upon you from the dark of your room.
Do you feel that strange gust of wind? What’s that silent tapping, rapping on your bedroom door? And that little noise coming from behind, barely audiable whispers in the dark? Someone is watching you, aren’t they? It’s making the hairs on the back of your neck stand straight and you feel sudden shivers running down your spine. Really, anything can happen on Halloween.
Oh, so you don’t scare that easily? Well, you can get scared in 140 characters or less, tough guy, I guarantee it. So dim down your light, check your closet, make sure there are no boogiemen under your bed and enjoy some of the shortest and creepiest stories the Internet has to offer.
The Twitter of Terror
Let’s start with the king of horror, R. L. Stine who put a juicy scary delight in our social media satchel this Haloween: a horror story made entirely of tweets.
People call me a loser, but that’s going to change. I was in a little diner downtown and I ordered an egg salad sandwich…
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..I was about to bite down on it when I noticed something moving in the egg salad. Was I imagining it? No… — R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..I saw a hairy, three-fingered claw push a clump of egg out of the way. I saw two round black eyes. A fur-covered face… — R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..The creature poked out of the sandwich, sending egg salad tumbling onto the plate. It was the size of a fat beetle… — R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..But it wasn’t an insect. It had a furry head and eyes that peered into mine. Before I could react, a second creature poked out… — R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..And then a third. My sandwich was infested. My stomach lurched. “Is everything okay?” the waitress asked…
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..”Yes. Fine,” I said. “Could you wrap this sandwich to go?” Finding hairy things in your sandwich is gross…
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..But I knew this sandwich would make me a winner. The sandwich would turn my life around…
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..Discovering a new life form had to make me rich. I carried the sandwich home carefully and set it on a table…
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..I didn’t hear my son Willy come home. When I finally saw him, he had egg salad on his face…
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..Yes, he ate the sandwich. If only I could have stopped him. Now the creatures are biting holes in his stomach…
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..They are biting holes in Willy from the inside, poking their furry heads out of his stomach, chewing his flesh…
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..Okay. A minor setback. But I’m not giving up. Willy is screaming in agony. The poor guy is terrified…
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
..I’m so excited. Where is my camera? Willy is going to make me rich. ##
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) October 29, 2014
So, you’re not scared of little eggsalad sandwich? Very well, we shall continue. If you’re itching for some more Twitter Terror, check out Short Horror Stories and come back for some….
Reddit Reaping
It only takes two sentences to make you shiver and look over your shoulder to see whose gaze you feel on the nape of your neck, even though you know you are alone. These Reddit users went out of their way to bring the most terrifying two-sentences stories from the dark, and a 9gager made it all the more graphic:
Not goosebumps yet? Well maybe you need a little dose of good old gory
YouTube!
Ever heard of Jeff the Killer? You’ve seen this image on the Internet, I know. And, no, it’s not the overly attached girlfriend meme. Seriously, there are scarier things than overcommited girls. Like Jeff. A killer with acid burnes all over his face, hiding in your closet and telling you ever so softly to fall asleep.
Fall asleep and you will be safe and sound in your dreams.
…or will you?
http://youtu.be/l4ZL-57j7fo
I leave you in the gentle hands of Jeff the Killer and wish you all a good night. Filled with darkness and terror and things that go bump in the night.
