Night Terrors

[cyberghostface]

From Flinch #3.

Comments

[lego_joker]

So... just to be clear, this is supposed to be strictly a Halloween thing, right? If this happened every night I doubt there'd be a single kid left alive in the world after a few years.

[cyberghostface]

I don’t think the story mentions Halloween.

[silverzeo]

Hmm... is there more to this story?

Go to bed or monster will get you seems too much a scare-tatic that parents used on rowdy kids. Plus kids being just jerks trying to scare a kid doesn't seem right, especially with a missing person poster. To make this scary is like on par saying Chain Mail curses being real...

Or at least try to work in a better twist than this ending.

I remember back in my old grade school days, a Halloween issue of the Weekly Reader had some REALLY scary story. Like this one about a babysitter who watches over theses kids in this old house that they "pretend" keep monsters away, like tell scary stories or wobbling knobs. Than one night, a stranger breaks into the house and chases them, and behind a locked door, they heard the burglar screaming in pain, and seemly dissapear, but then the sitter saw a small puddle of blood slowly disappearing, as though it was being lapped up by an invisible tongue..

BTW, I went to a Catholic school. :)