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Survive
A collection of Gothic short stories
by the students of 1ère L2 (2016)
Contents
The Mystery of Elizabethtown
The Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital
The Black-eyed Dog
Under The Hut
Bad Luck
The Maze
Too Fearless and Bold
My Little Diary of my Big Stories
Doctor Stranger
Death in the Castle
Ghosts of Notre-Dame
Kill to Survive
El Dia De Los Muertos
The mystery of Elisabetown
Everything began this night, the night of October 31st, I remember this night was especially cold. I was peacefully walking in the street in a city I did not even know, with an unpronounceable name, looking for this manor for going to this party to which I didn’t even want to go. I didn’t know since how many time I walk. Every street was the same, gloomy missing light, empty and a little creepy.
I was seeking for someone, but nobody. I tried to call someone else or just see in the map where I was, but no signal. Like I needed that, the rain started to fall, the wind was gusting, owls begin to hoot. I crossed in the dark retreats in the park with the only light was the slanting rays of the moon. I heard a scream, I saw shadows and I desperately searched a shelter. I walked with no specific direction. But I saw far away a church, I started running. I was out of breath, but I didn’t stop, the more I ran and the more church pulled away. I finally arrived to this big and lugubrious monument. I pushed the big door, but nobody was in there. I was alone, I took a sit and I was beginning to think it was just a nightmare and tomorrow, everything will be better but I was wrong.
I passed the worst night ever. I couldn’t close my eye without feel, observe, but when I opened my eyes, nothing happened. I tried to sleep again and again, but the whispering began. I opened my eyes and saw a girl, at the top of the stairs, she didn’t move, I tracked her, but she suddenly disappeared. I was thinking: what’s happened in this city? Overcome by panic, I started running, I tried to escape this place, but the door, couldn’t open, I was locked here. I cried out for help, but nobody heard me, the more I tried to exist, the more the voices got angry. I lay curled up, and cried. I calmed myself, and started to hear these voices. I follow them, without wanting, It was like someone else was in my body and controlled me. I climbed at the top of the search and jumped.
It’s how I began to be a wandering soul of Elisabetown.
The Gonjiam Psychiatric hospital
The Gonjiam Psychiatric hospital has been called one of the most haunted places in South Korea and CNN has claimed it was one of the freakiest places in the world. The hospital was closed and abandoned for a lot of reasons among this reasons, there are legends of mysterious deaths, mad doctors that were as crazy as the patients in the asylum.
“Are you always already guys for tonight?” Chris, the leader of our band, said. He was very happy to go there, to him it was an experience to do once before returning to the United States.
“I am not sure, I don’t feel confident at all.” I said.
“I am of the same opinion, something is going to happened.” Sara spoke, she grimaced.
“Stop making your fearful girls, it is OK, we are with you.”
“And it’s supposed to reassure them, Mike?” Teddy said.
Again Mike said, “Uh… yes, they are not alone. It’s fine.” Nothing is going to happened like we expected.
Ellipse of the day.
We took in Gangnam-gu, a district of Seoul, the bus 500-2 to go in Gwangju-si, a district of Gweonggi-do. The journey was two hours. Once there, we came face to a locked gate with a big lock and barbed wire. We walked ten meters, and we came face to wood with a little slope. We went up the slope. We walked for twenty minutes until Chris screamed, “It’s there!” He was so glad.
A shiver ran down my spine. Chris and Mike ran faster to the main building.
“In what had I embarked?” I said to me. It was 6 pm, and in Seoul, at this time it was already dark. I could see the moon.
“Girls, fighting!” Teddy screamed to encourage us.
The more we approached the more we could see buildings. There was four buildings. The main building was tumbledown. We entered by a metal door grating. The hall was grim. The atmosphere was heavy. The story said the hospital was abandoned twenty years ago because patients and staffs begun dying randomly. The doctors became mad and after the closure, it was in 1996, the doctors disappeared. It was so creepy. On the hall floor there was traces, dirt and old books written in Korean. There was no light. I saw Teddy catch up the others boys when I heard a creepy scream, it was Sara. I ran into the first floor, it was murky. All the doors banged so hard only one didn’t. I opened the door, a slight cold breath whipped me on my face. I saw body of Sara hanging in the room. Her blood ran down into her body. I saw a shadow in the end of corridors, she approached. And it was the black hole.
I woke up two days later… it was the worst holidays of my life.
The Black-eyed Dog
Helen was 16 years old and went to a babysitting. She had to look after tonight 3 children and dog of a young couple, away for the evening. When she arrived, they informed her the children were already in bed and did not return later.
Helen moved into the sofa in the dark, with just the light of the chimney, and she caressed the dog, a strange dog whose eyes were black. The phone rang but when she picked up, no one was talking at the other end of the line. A few minutes later the phone rang again, and this time a chilling voice replied: “Did you go see the children?”, then nothing.
Thinking it was the father who called her to see if everything was OK, she said he was cut and he would remember to call again, and she returned to the sofa to caress the dog. A few minutes after the phone rang: “Did you go see the children?” repeated the voice. “Sir Stuart?” she asked, worried, but nobody answered.
She then contacted the police, but they said they could do nothing. Just after that, the unknown called, “Why do not you go to see the children?” Scared, she contacted the police again, assuring them that this unknown was here, she felt. The agent on the other end of the line decided to take her number and reassured her: “The next time he calls you, we will trace the origin of the call.”
Helen, in the dark locked herself in the kitchen with the dog and the phone with her. It rang and this time she picked up immediately:
“What do you want me to do?”
“Why have you turned off the lights?”
“Who are you? What do you want from me?”
Then nothing.
Helen hung up, terrified she did not know what to do, she felt her dog licking her hand, that reassured her a little, but the phone rang again. “LEAVE ME” she shouted into the handset. “Helen, it’s the agent, we traced the call, you must immediately go out, the call is from a room of the house, get out immediately…!” She rushed to the door, and started trying to unlock it in the dark, trembling. She panicked, dropped the key, when she left the kitchen, she heard the dog make a strange scary sound and heard another noise in his back and then saw a door open at the top of the stairs.
A light went out of the children’s room and she clearly saw the silhouette of a man standing, facing her. She finally managed to open the door and go out, falling face to face with the policeman, weapon in hand. Thirty seconds after she turned around and saw the killer, handcuffed by police.
The man was covered in blood. One of the three children of the Stuart family.
After that, she really needed to go to the bathroom to wash her face, when she was in, the shower curtains closed, when she open them, she saw the dog laying in his own blood…
After all these events, the only thing which haunted her forever was this question: If the dog is dead… What had she caressed?
Under the Hut
Once upon a time a man and a girl who just get married, bought a house. They were happy of that house until they realised that this house had a really strange and scary past. One night they heard a scream of a baby, but the thing was that they didn’t have a baby. They started to be scared and they went out of their bed and followed the scream. When they were in the living room the scream stopped. Then they returned to sleep.
The next morning they kept searching but they didn’t find or hear anything. They started to think that maybe they were dreaming or something like that. When they went to bed that night they had a bad feeling but they didn’t do anything. That night they heard the scream again, they were sure that wasn’t a dream. They followed the scream and this time the scream didn’t stop. They were now in the garden. They had never been in their garden. This was the first time that they saw this little hut in the bottom of the garden. The closer they were to the hut, the stronger the scream was. The man started to dig. He stopped when he found something that they couldn’t believe. Under the hut in THEIR garden there was the body of a baby!
Bad luck
The legend tells that beside a city in an island called Landflow there is a haunted forest, which we can’t go out if you are a human. Compasses become out of control, the indications on the maps are erased, you’ll never find the exit. This place is dark and misty, the trees are tall and old. In the Middle-Ages, witches were burnt over there, and everything from the forest is haunted by these witches and their inventions. However, there are normal people in this city. Ashley Smith is a young High School student. She’s seventeen, and she has a best friend, Flo.
Thursday, 12th October 3013
12:23 pm
Today was the best day of my life. I’ve finally kissed Wilson Jackson!!!!! He’s the most handsome boy of the campus. He invited me to go to the restaurant with him tomorrow. I’m so excited !!! I’m unable to wait for tomorrow.
Friday, 13th October 3013
8:00 am
It’s D-day!!!!
11:55 am
I’m waiting for Wilson, ohh there is Flo…
11:55 pm
I don’t know where I am, I’m scared.
This morning, Flo was mysterious. She said to me «come with me to the forest, it’s very very very urgent!», I asked her what was happening, but she didn’t answer. She took my arm and ran until the forest. I didn’t have the time to warn Wilson…
When we arrived in the forest, she asked me if I knew the story about this place, I said no, so she made me walk until the cemetery, and told me the legend… I was terrified… She approached her mouth to my neck, her breath was hot, I felt her sharp teeth, I tried to move back, but she was faster than me. Her teeth pierced my neck… I looked at her eyes, they were red like the blood from my neck !!! At this moment, she ran and left me alone… I’m lost !!!
Saturday, 14th October
08:01 am
I found an old shed in which I slept. I heard noise outside, I was going to see what it was and I saw two boys… What were they doing there?
“What are you doing there?” asked Ashley.
“Last night, we were drunk and we didn’t know what we were doing there… The GPS of our mobile phone had become out of control.”
“I’m lost too, but I think I know the exit. Follow me!”
Ashley lied to them, she took them to the cemetery. It was the full moon… her body had turned into a werewolf, her eyes became red, her teeth was sharp and her hair grew. She was terrified and the boys were petrified. She jumped on them but one of them, John, escaped. He risked being found by a mysterious creature. For his friend that was too late, he could now go out and come in this forest without getting lost. One member added to the werewolves community, now that they were more.
Will there be other victims? And John, did he survive?
The Maze
Kath woke up with a terrible headache. Her beautiful black eyes inspected the place. It was cold and her breath formed little clouds upon her head. She stood up. The moon’s light was brighting the landscape. She looked at the sky. There were no stars, no sounds, nothing. Nothing except her and fear. She walked a few steps and suddenly stopped breathing. She was in a cage. A huge cage with old rock walls that was stucking her. She could see a lot of chinks and had the feeling that dark spirits escaped from it. After a few minutes she understood she was lost alone in a scary maze.
“Kath!”
She flinched. She could feel a presence somewhere around her, but didn’t know where it was from.
“Do you want to play with me?”
She could recognize the voice as that of a little girl. And the voice was cold, non-living, without the joy of a real child.
“(Knock knock) who’s there? (The door)”
No answer. Just a creepy laugh.
“Be careful it will be rainy soon. Do you like rain Kath? I know you like it.”
The voice just finished talking and a heavy rain started to fall. The moon disappeared into the darkness. But there were no clouds. And from a dark part of the maze, a doll head rolled to Kath’s feet. Kath took the head in her hands, and the water on the toy turned red. The smell of the rain became disgusting just like the smell of blood.
“But this kind of rain Kath. Do you still like it? And the doll Kath? Do you like it? It’s my favorite one but I give it to you. Do you want to play with me now? Don’t move, I’m coming.”
The sounds of the steps became louder. Kath’s heart beat faster and faster and she started to run against her will. She ran again and again, she ran and never stopped, even when she hurt herself with roots that were growing up as she was out of time she continued. Some lightning struck the maze but she didn’t hear it, she was only concentrated about running away, walls were moving around her because of running. The laugh was terribly loud and suddenly nothing. No sounds again, no rain and she was at the same place. Only ravens were flying upon her head. She waited one hour, two, three, eight hours…But it was still night.
She decided to explore, find a way to escape. But she also started to be mad. She walked like a body without soul and finally she couldn’t control herself, she started to hit her head on the wall of the maze at the same time she was laughing. She cut her arms with a piece of rock and started to cry blood and finally she died. It’s only after that the voice took form. It was a little girl in a white dusty dress. She also looked like an old woman, a little boy or a man. It was like she was different people at the same time but hadn’t got eyes. She had a knife in her hand and stabbed the corpse of Kath to extirpate her heart and eat it. Kath disappeared and two beautiful black eyes appeared.
Too fearless and bold
Characters: Four friends from Bexley High School, located in London: Chris Parker, 16 years old, Aaron Evans, same age, so as Hayley Taylor and Aiden.
Main place: In a maze after class around midnight.
Monday 8 am
Chris: ‘Hey guys how are you today? Have you seen Aiden?’
Hayley: ‘No we didn’t I bet he skipped class as usual, or he did not wake up, he’s such a dunce!’
Aaron: ‘Haha right, but we love him, he’s so funny!’
Chris: ‘Yeah definitely, who’s gonna liven things up today?’
Aaron: ‘I can!’
Chris and Hayley are coughing.
Aaron: ‘Ok I get it, anyway, did you try to call him?’
Chris, Hayley: ‘Not yet, we can do this during the break.’
Aaron: ‘Yeah let’s do this.’
Hayley: ‘I’m a little bit worried, he always warns us, maybe he is sick.’
Aaron, Chris: ‘Yeah maybe, we will know that later.’
During the break. Chris is calling, the phone is ringing in vain.
Chris: ‘He is not picking up the phone.’
Hayley: ‘He can be so annoying, just leave him a message.’
Chris: ‘Fine.’
Aaron: ‘He is probably having a shower, even if it is 2pm.’
Hayley, Chris laugh sarcastically.
Aaron: ‘Well, I’m gonna see him at his home tonight.’
Chris: ‘Great, keep us posted.’
At night, around 9:30 pm
Aaron (knocking at Aiden’s door): Good evening, is there anyone here?
Aiden’s mom: ‘Good evening, please for God sake I’m trying to watch TV!’
Aaron: ‘Sorry, is Aiden here?
Aiden’s mom: ‘For sure , Aiden a friend of yours is at the door! Go down the stairs!’
A minute later.
Aiden’s mother: ‘You can go upstairs, otherwise he is not going to go down, he will hear me for sure!’
Aaron goes upstairs.
Aaron: ‘Hey buddy, what are you doing? Come on, get off your bed!’ (Removing his bed cover) Where the hell are you!?!’
No one answered. Aaron started to look around, searching for something that could help him to discover where Aiden have been.
Aaron: ‘Well, this is very weird, every single furniture has been broken or thrown. All his office supplies are on the floor, and scattered, like he had a fight with someone, but he is not the kind of person who has enemies. And there is blood on some papers, something very bad happened to him…. Excuse me but, is there anybody who came to visit Aiden those last days?’
Aaron’s mom: ‘Yes one of your classmates, called John.’
Aaron: ‘Thank you, goodbye.’
Aaron’s mom: ‘See you.’
Aaron, confused and upset, immediately called Hayley.
Aaron: ‘Guess what? Aiden is not at home and John came at his home.’
Hayley: ‘This weirdo.’
Aaron: Y’eah tomorrow we have to talk to him, I bet they had a fight.’
Hayley: ‘Probably, I have to hang up the phone, see you tomorrow.
Aaron: ‘Goodbye.’
The following day, at school, at 8 am.
Chris: ‘Hey guys, anything new?’
Hayley: ‘Well, John visited him, we think they had a fight.’
Chris: ‘Look over here, a rolling stone gathers no moss!’
Aaron: ‘Hey you, we need to talk!’
John: ‘What do you want you silly human?’
Chris: ‘One of the reasons why people don’t like you, like the way that you speak and act, so strange.’
John: ‘We don’t belong to the same world.’
Chris: ‘Yeah definitely, I’m higher than you!’
John (whispering): ‘You won’t be able to say that when I stick my fangs in your neck.’
Chris: ‘What did you say?’
John: ‘What are you looking for?’
Hayley: ‘We want to know what you did to Aiden.’
John: ‘Good question for once, well if you want to discover it, meet at midnight, in the maze next to the mansion of Stanlake Road.’
Aaron: ‘Are you serious?’
John: ‘You can’t see this enough?’
Hayley: ‘Do you think that you scared us?’
John: ‘You will be scared, trust me.’
Chris: ‘Don’t worry you’re the one who is going to be scared when your face eat the floor.’
At midnight, in the center of the maze.
Hayley: Let me check: Flashlights, cell phones, balls of wool, fireworks: the inventory is complete!
Aaron: Perfect, if anyone feels in danger, or threaten, don’t hesitate to use it!
Hayley, Chris: Fine, we will.
Aaron: Then let’s go!
They started to walk in the maze, with lightning, rain, and a freezing wind.
Chris: I think that we should separate, each of you is going to take a different corridor, and use different color of ball wool.
Aaron, Hayley: Fine.
Friends started to walk inside the maze, to find the center, where Jonas is. A few minutes later, Chris started to feel the breathing of someone, the smoke lift up extremely slowly, in a regular way.
Chris: Who is it?
No one answered him.
Chris: Anyone?
Chris started to panic, felt goosebumps crossed his skin. The rain intensified, then he saw that something moved.
Chris: If it’s you Aaron this is not funny at all!
Jonas: Be careful, dummy.
Chris: Show me your stupid damn face Jonas!
The shadow faded away, and the only thing that we could heard was the leaves fallen and the raindrops, falling on the maze walls. Chris, panicked, and tried to call Hayley.
Chris: No phone signal, I should have guessed that!
Jonas: I’m gonna play with you!
Chris fell on the floor, pushed by Jonas, then he heard a strident noise.
Chris (breathless): No who is that?
Jonas: Yeah, good Sherlock, this is a chainsaw, you better move your fat butt!
He just lift up just in time, the chainsaw brushed his leg, and the blood started to spill.
Chris: You are insane!!!!
Jonas: Yes, you shouldn’t talk to me just like you did, I’m very resentful, and you’re too bold as well, now I’m gonna take care of your friends!
Chris: Don’t you dare touch them!
Jonas turned his back on him, and let the chainsaw creak the ground. Chris used his firework, hoping that his friends will see it.
Hayley: Aaron do you hear me?!
Aaron: Yes, I’m behind you!
Hayley: Did you see the firework?
Aaron: Yeah, it was on our right, we have to check if Chris is fine.
Hayley: Yes let’s go!
They started to find a way to reach Chris in this massive and oppressive maze.
Aaron: This labyrinth looks endless, in which trouble are we?
Hayley: Try to stay calm, we will find the way that Chris crossed.
Aaron: Look over there, this is his ball wool !
Hayley: We must follow this trace, hurry up!
Aaron: Don’t run, I can’t see the path anymore, the flashlight is not lighting what is in front of me!
Hayley: Such a burden…
Aaron: What did you said?
Hayley: Nothing, have you heard this noise?
Aaron: What noise? You told me to stay calm and you become paranoid!
Jonas: She is not paranoid at all my dear…
Jonas: I’m behind your back, hum in front of you actually!
Panicked, Hayley looked all around her but saw nothing.
Jonas: I’m fast, isn’t it? Well I begin to feel tired of carrying this chainsaw, this is very heavy!
Hayley: You are insane!
Jonas: Yes, and because of who? Because of Aiden’s father, he took me as a guinea pig for his experiences, and now what I’ve become? A monster who need blood to survive and the one who suffer when it’s too sunny! He obtained a prize for this, and you and your friend where the ones who helped him to finance this project! I have to fix this injustice!
A few seconds later, Jonas and Hayley felt down on the ground and Jonas disappeared.
A week later, the friends of Chris have been buried, but his body was never found…
Aiden’s father paid the price for being an inhuman genius, he lost the person that he loved the most, his son.
My little diary of my big stories
Friday 13 December 2002
Dear Diary,
My name is Steve, I am 16 years old and I live in Carson City in Nevada.
My father is named Henri and my mom is named Elisabeth and I have a little sister, she is 8 years old she is named Anna. My home is in front of an abandoned prison. I have decided to talk with you dear diary because you’re the only one who I can talk because my family is a little bit strange. All day they wear dark clothes, I know it’s not enormous but they act like strange people for example they like to go to the abandoned prison for « visit » but I know it’s false. One day, I went accidentally to my parent’s room and I have seen my father with a red liquid next to his mouth… I think it was blood.
Friday 20 December 2002
Dear Diary,
I’m scared because when I woke up, I saw a body in front of my bed but I don’t know what was happening… I’ve talked about it with my parents but they don’t care… I don’t know what I’m gonna do with the body! I’m sad for the family of this man… He looks like so kind.. He has blue eyes, and he is blond. I think that he has no more blood in his body.
Friday 27 December 2002
Dear Diary,
I don’t know what is happening every day, I see a body next to my bed…. I hope that this is not my parents who had placed this body these bodies next to my bed because each morning the foregoing are gone.
Friday 3 January 2002
Dear Diary,
Oh my God… I have placed a camera in my desk and I saw me drunk blood… I think that at night I’m a Vampire…
Doctor stranger
“Where am I?” was the first thought that I had. I was waking up in a strange room with just a bed. I was in chains I didn’t know why, who I was and why I was here!
~Knock knock~
The door opened. A stranger with a white blouse came in the room. I could see blood in his hands that’s it a little strange.
“– Hi why am I here?” I couldn’t be calm, this man or doctor I didn’t know scared me. Why does he have blood on him?
“– It is time for you.” He said without expression.
Time? For what? What happened? Am I sick? Why he didn’t answer me? He took of the chain, only my hands were unchained. I followed him in another place that look like an operating theatre. There were many bodies hanging… ew what is this… that smelt death!
“- Please answer me why am I here and who are you?” My mind was confused.
He didn’t answer me and he continued his way. Suddenly he stopped to walk and he turned of he was in front of me now I could see his face. He had small black eyes and his nose is very hooked, his mouth is… is… I couldn’t describe but I thought he had got an accident.
“- Sit down here.”
He told me to sit down but where? There was blood everywhere and I felt nauseous.
“-Really?! is it a joke?”
“- I said sit down”
“- No! tell me where I am!”
“- If you don’t sit now I will kill you”
“- KILL ME! DO IT NOW WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR-“
“-Shut up!”
If I continued like this I will be a lifeless man. He was preparing something -I don’t know what- but I was sure this was not good for me. I was trying to escape but with this chain I couldn’t. I saw around me something which couldn’t help me. There were just bodies without life, parts of bodies in jars, which was very strange. In a wall there was written with blood:
“HE IS DANGEROUS HELP ME! “
Okay now it was sure I was going to die! I continued to try to find something but nothing helped me here! I just knew now his name. Is it a badge? There was his name on this badge.
“-Aaron Warner”
He is just next to me, I was surprised to see him, he was very quiet.
“-Why did you do that? Why to me?!”
“- A long time ago I was a doctor in the most prestigious hospital in London I had an accident and my face became like this after that nobody wanted to be my patient and my colleagues were reserved with me, they laughed about my face behind my back I was feeling like a stranger…WHY?! I AM GOOD! I AM NORMAL! And now this is my revenge”
“-But I don’t know who you are! why did you do that to me?!”
“-You?! Just you were in my way HAHA poor unlucky!” he said that with a sadistic laugh.
“-Please let me live! I beg you to let me live please!”
“-SAY GOODBYE MY POOR!”
“-AAAAAAAAH!!”
~Henry! Henry! Wake up!~
“-AAH I’M GOING TO DIE!”
“-I said WAKE UP!”
“-AH!..W-What? Where am I?”
“-Wake up Henry! It’s just a nightmare. You are alive.”
“-R..Really? It’s just a nightmare?”
“-Yes….No I’m joking you are going to die!!”
“-AAAAH!”
Death In the castle
There was a little girl who was called Marie-Beth Death. She was 13 years old. She was born on Friday, clearly the 13th November. She lived with her family in an old castle in Transylvania in 1866. It was on a 13 Friday, the day of her birthday and the day of the misfortune. Marie-Beth was playing with her brother, Thomas, next to a lake. But what Marie-Beth didn’t know, this was the last time when she played with her little brother and the last day of their life. The two little children were drown in the lake. Worried by sadness, the mother was interned in a lunatic asylum and put an end of her life. The father died of a heart attack. Since the bad day, the family has haunted the house but not only…
This castle was strange, old, dark, like the former family. The castle was old, not pretty, gloomy, dirty. Several years later, a man bought the castle for him and her family but he didn’t know what will happen to them. During the settled of the oldest daughter, Amber, she heard the tap water flowing. So, she went to the bathroom, stopped the water and returned to her bed but the sound continued. Annoyed by the sound, Amber returned to the bathroom but to her big surprise the tap was closed but the sound was still there. Amber, afraid, called her brother and her brother, Vincent, went to his bed. When he arrived to his bed, Vincent didn’t hear the song of the fat. After this moment, Amber was troubled by the event. Amber didn’t think about the event and the bathroom to do her make up. She looked at the mirror and saw the face of a little girl. The hair of the little girl was wet. She was wearing a long white dress, she had long black hair and she had purple or blue skin.
After the strange day, the family continued to live normally but not for a long time. All the family organized a walk next to the lake like the last day of the strange family. Surprised by the scream of her child the child ran towards their son. When they arrived their son was pulled by the same little girl as the bathroom. It was Marie-Beth. It was the day of revenge of Marie-Beth and her family. The father and the mother attempted to save the little boy but it was too late…
So they returned to her house, called their daughter but no answer. The mother screamed a second time the name of her daughter but no answer for the second time. So the parents went to the bed of their daughter crazed and they found their child hanged and on the wall the family who haunted the house had sent a message to the family.
The Death family wrote this message with the blood of the girl and this message said:
“We Will Kill You And The Evil Clown Of Death Will Come And Get You For Death’s Castle “
What will happen to the parents? Nobody can know…
Ghosts of Notre-Dame
Under this cloudy night I stand, as I wait for the two policemen to come. A story from a crazy man I would say. And it’s exactly what I thought since the policeman Arnaud came to my office yesterday. He was sweaty and afraid, saying in a hurry « Miss! I saw a ghost! ». I tried to send him back home, but he insisted, saying I should go to the cathedral Notre-Dame. And here I am now. Waiting for him, an other policeman and the priest.
Finally, he came later. For now, I just see Arnaud and recognize… Lafayette? Oh, I know he wouldn’t bring one of our experienced man, but I would expect better than an agent in charge of the traffic… Anyway, the priest, Father Delaroche invite us to enter the cathedral.
As we walk on the cold stone that composed the ground, we can hear the last people praying. I can hear some of them talking about what happened last night, but I just try to ignore them. I can just see that Lafayette did quite a mess in his fleeing, a holy shattered statue lay on the ground… I ask him ;
« What did you see before fleeing?
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The candles!
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The candles?
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Yes miss! I can assure you that I was not drunk, but I saw them flying! »
The priest isn’t more talkative… He only repeat that, each night, someone, or something is trying to enter his bedroom, and that, each night, the attempt seems to become more and more violent. I guess I will not have more information. Taking this in consideration, I decide to order to the 3 men to stand there, while I go see in the basement.. Just a made up excuse, and a pretty bad one, so I can take some distance from them and check by myself some…things in the cathedral.
As I take one of the oil lamps, not very effective against the shadows of this place, I start my own personal visit.
The cathedral is pretty big, and full of rooms, themselves full of furniture but pretty badly light by my poor lamp, I barely see them in the dark… Some things seem weird and unusual, but I don’t really inspect them though, as I just think that Arnaud saw imaginary things. One of those rooms seem to be abandoned from years… decades …or, more likely, centuries. At the same time I enter in the room, I feel a drop in the temperature. My back shivers a bit, and I have a strange feeling of nausea.
The feeling of nausea seem come from those rotten, old bits of food on the grounds ? Or maybe from the weird looking fungus all over the walls and furniture ? As I think of it, I feel it come from an other source. Anyway, this room seems too disturbing to me, and I decide to go back in the corridor. As I leave, I think I hear a chuckle from the back of the room, but as I look back, I see nothing else than the stones of the wall.
Now, the visit of the cathedral isn’t as comfortable as before. I am starting to get a little bit pressured by those elements, those walls, those… things, all over the place. I am starting to accelerate my search, as I want to go back home quickly as possible. Then, I start to ear a weird voice, the voice of a young woman, far ahead in the dark. The voice seems to be singing, or reciting a poem. I am getting closer, and start to listen to the sentences I heard…
« A love story burned by the flames
’cause on them the eye of god fell
For the red priest without name
these young people need to go back in hell. »
Happy to be together for life
the stream of love started to flood
But sadly for them, the housewives
and the husband shared the same blood. »
Actually, It recall me the story of two young people who got burned by the inquisition for some obscure reason…, I hear a man screams from the main room. I need to go see what is happening there… As I walk towards the room, I don’t seem to remember seeing anyone else in this building from hours now that I remember, apart from people praying, but it’s getting really late, and they have certainly left the place. But now, I need to go see what happened. I feel something cold behind me, I continue my walk but this thing doesn’t want to go, now it’s next to me, my heart is beginning to be stressed : something or somebody is with me. I decide to run and join faster than I can the policeman, the cold thing is far away but I heard it, does it call me ?
I finally find my comrades…… only one in fact, the other one laying on the floor :
-He falling with no reason ! I think it was a joke but he’s lifeless !Father is here, it’s not him, I-I-I really don’t know what happened ! Say Arnaud, he looks so disturbing and lost.
-With no reason………I heard a voice when I was alone…..
-You think ghosts existed my dear ?
-It’s absurd, I don’t believe it !
-You don’t believe in it or you don’t want to believe in it ?
I look Father, I think my face show my surprise : Does he wants to make me understand something ? At this moment, a candelabra falls just next to Father and a big « DIE » appears suddenly ! I ask why and a male voice says :
– For the revenge of our death ! Buried by priest ! DIE you and all of you !
– For our liberty, let us go out of this blasted cathedral ! says a female voice this time.
The atmosphere became really cold, but I fall, fall on the floor and see the priest look at me with a sad face and say « Nice try, thank you ».
It’s the only thing I remember after woke up in a hospital, Arnaud and Lafayette are here, I ask them for know where are the priest and their answer that: « what priest ? ». I told them the story of the night and they laugh and say that I drink a little too much. I take the newspaper on the beside table : « The priest of Notre-Dame is dead that night ! », he is dead, I saw him die, Did I dream it ?…
Kill to Survive
Having a great life isn’t trying to have a lot of money and a lot of girlfriends. Having a good life is trying to do something great. So I can say that I have a good life, I do whatever I want, whenever I want and with whoever I want. In High School, I was famous like Dany Zouko in Grease. I don’t know why but girls loved me even if I didn’t want them… I’ve graduated and I have got a good job as a Bunge director, in the agribusiness industry.
Today I stayed up late, it’s 1:00 am, I was starving, so I went to eat something at my favorite restaurant, to have some time of pleasure. When I opened the door of the restaurant I felt the smell of fries, meat, honey, pancakes as if it was Christmas.
While I asked my order I felt that someone was staring at me, so I looked behind me and there was a really pretty girl, blue-eyed, brown hair, thin, about 173 centimeters, brunette, seemed pretty anxious, stressed, nervous, her hands were red as blood, black nails, maybe she was painter.
« -Sir. there is your order, buffalo burger. »
« -Great choice! I’m Hayley by the way… she said »
« – Thanks. Hmm … Thomas, when I looked up to her eyes they were red. »
Afraid I took my order and sat down. A minute later I saw her coming, she walked slowly to choose the good table. I remarked that she wasn’t weird anymore. She sat in front of me, and cast me a glance. She was eating bloody meat, and was drinking greedily some tomato juice, steaky and a weird smell. I finished so fast my meal and noticed that she was already gone. So I decided to leave and walk a bit to digest.
I arrived in a creepy park, it was dark and I don’t even know why the hell I came here. I heard a whisper and had goosebumps while the park was empty, looked around and cut through the trees. Suddenly my eyes widened, a hyena was devouring a body, my breathe was starting to go faster and faster and couldn’t move, my last breath was a bit noisy, she looked at me, I was right behind her, I recognised these eyes, red as blood. She approached, still couldn’t move, I was trying to figure it out how the hell these eyes were so familiar to me.
« -So you’re following me? Or did I attract you to come here? said to my ear changing for a human body. »
« -Hayley isn’t it? You’re a monster … »
« -Am I? Perhaps! Do you Know what I can do to you right now don’t you? So I’m giving you five seconds to run … five I run as if there was no tomorrow, four… three, she started to become as a hyena all over again, two …one. COMING!!! »
She started to run faster, and I couldn’t run anymore, I’m too tired… Hid behind a tree.
« -Funny! You Know that I can feel you right ? »
She gave me no chance to think , and said goodbye, tearing my heart and eating it as if it was a chewing-gum.
El dìa de los muertos
Jules and Mary were sitting in the living room of their dead grandmother who passed away 2 months ago. Their grandfather died in the war and never knew him but for them, he was hero. They wanted to sell the house because it was big, beautiful and situated in the middle of a forest where you could hunt but unfortunately, they couldn’t afford the maintenance of the house. They already had cleared the first floor of the house and we’re now going to start the second. They found each other in their old room where they slept when they were younger. By seeing the armchair where their grandmother used to sit and tell them stories, they felt overwhelmed by the memories and decided to make a break in their cleaning.
“Mary, do you remember the stories grandma used to tell us?”
“Yes, of course! I loved them, I even remember some of them because of the number of times I heard them.”
“ Really?” said Jules really enthusiastically, “do you remember the one about El día de los muertos?”
“Of course, I love it. Sit down, it’s my turn to tell you a story.”
Mary stood up, closed the light and closed the stores to be in the dark. The only source of light was the little hole in the door. She then started to tell the story the same ways her grandma used to do and using the exact same words.
“After China, Italy, Greece, Canada, this time I decided to go discover Mexico. As always, I transported with me my little blue suitcase, my passport and a picture of grandpa. Arriving at Mexico, I was blown away by something that I never could have imagine. Before my eyes was happening the most beautiful show of my life. In the air were flying confetti, and could hear the sound of the traditional music, people smiling and laughing everywhere. You couldn’t even tell if they were men or women because they all were disguised. They had the head completely covered by make-up and they had flowers and skulls make up. They were wearing masks and some women were wearing long black dresses. Lots of people were disguised in skeletons and I didn’t dare to make a move outside of the airport but did it anyway so and found myself in the middle of the chaos of the streets. In front of me people placed everything on the giant altar, food, candles, skulls, flowers, fruits, candies and all of this for the dead. For a day I found myself completely lost in a world of party and fun. The end of the day came, and I had to go to the hotel because I was exhausted and I had to take the plane the next day. On the road, I was looking for the perfect souvenir which was going to help me always remember this day for the rest of my life. I was walking around different stands and a skull got my intention. It was blue with flowers of different colours like purple, green, yellow, pink and red. I bought it and returned to the hotel where I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. The morning after, I woke up early to catch my plane. On it I thought about the day before with a big smile on my face. I finally got home and decided to put the skull in the room on my husband’s side like this I will be honouring his death. When I put it down something happened that I didn’t expected. I heard the voice of my dead husband talking to me “Come on children! It’s time for you to sleep now.”
“Thinking about this, we never heard the end of this story. “
“True.”
Mary and Jules looked at each other, and the same thought came through their minds.
« WHAT IF THIS SKULL REALLY HAVE POWERS ! » they screamed together at the same time.
They ran to their grandma’s bedroom and threw themselves on the bed and caught the skull at the same time. They then heard a voice in the room.
« Do you want me to read you a story children? »
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