Classic Horrors Club

After finishing a wiring project upstairs at what we call, “the house by the sea,” I asked its new resident, Nicholas Blair, if I could take a look around the cellar to get an idea of how much more work needed to be done. You can never tell in these old houses. 

I entered a room and discovered a coffin. I asked Blair what it was doing there and was surprised when he said he didn’t know. He claimed that he found it there just like I did and was as amazed as I was. I asked if he told the police about it and he said it wasn’t necessary; the coffin was empty. He told me he intended to get rid of it and that perhaps it was left here by someone as a bizarre practical joke.

Some joke! I told Blair I better be going and quickly slipped away.

As I walked through the woods trying to get back to town, I couldn’t stop thinking about what I saw and what it was doing there. The Collins family wouldn’t store a coffin in the basement of one of their houses. I think Blair was lying to me. He didn’t find it there and if he had, he would have done something about it right away. I felt sure there was something weird going on and decided to tell the sheriff. I was not going back to that house until I found out what was going on there!

It was then that I heard the sound, a noise like wings or a bird. I turned around and she was just standing there, looking at me sorta funny. I’ll never forget her, a beautiful girl, blonde with strange eyes. She came toward me with her arms outstretched. I couldn’t move.

The next thing I remember is waking up here in the Collinsport Hospital. Jeff Clark apparently found me slumped against a tree unconscious with bite marks on my neck. He brought me in and I began to wake from a coma earlier today.

Maggie Evans got permission from the doctor to visit and brought me flowers. She said she and my cousin, Joe Haskell, have been here every day and both of them are relieved I’m going to be all right. I was still groggy and was mumbling to her about the coffin and the room in the cellar. She told me I’d had a nightmare. I got more agitated about the house, the room, and the coffin. 

The nurse told Maggie it was time for her to leave, but I begged her not to go. I asked her to get Joe and she promised she would. As the nurse gave me a sedative and I started to drift off to sleep, I heard Maggie telling me to rest, just rest…