2025 Spooky Story Competition

He was running. As fast as he could. And he had only one thought. To survive. He was running from… He didn’t actually know who - or maybe more correctly to say, what – he was running away from. It was a kind of creature which he could actually see. It was a feeling that something was chasing him, and that was why he was running. He was running until he saw the light. His desire was just to find a house with people, at least a hut. Just to hide. But he found something way bigger. It was a huge, dark castle made of stone with tall towers going up to the dark sky and big, half-broken statues, columns, and deep in the garden – if you can call it a garden, lots of wild bushes, black roses and trees – there was a large well made of white stones; you could look into it and you wouldn’t see the bottom. It was so deep that if someone fell no-one would even really notice they had disappeared, and when they noticed no-one would be able to find or see the person who fell down. He could see lights in the castle’s windows and ran there as fast as he could. When he reached it, he tried to open the door but it was locked! He stayed there for a few minutes and then realised that he had the same feeling as when he was running away from a creature. He had no choice but to crash into a closed window to run away from a creature which was chasing him…

BY VASYA NESKOROMNYI