The Hallway Light: A Nine Little Hauntings Exclusive
✨ Nine Little Hauntings ✨
A series from The Hollow—brief encounters with the uncanny, where the ordinary twists and the quiet lingers a little too long.
“When the dark stands still, it’s only waiting for you to move.”
Every night, the hallway light flickered at precisely 2:17 a.m. Clara told herself it was just the old wiring despite what the electrician told her.
He didn’t believe her.
She could tell by the look on his face.
Just another lonely woman afraid of the dark.
But one night, she woke to the light steady, and a shadow standing at the far end at the head of the stairs, waiting. It didn’t move. Didn’t breathe as far as she could tell.
It was just there. A shape with nothing to cast a shadow from.
She had pulled her door closed and barricaded it with a chair while huddling under her covers staring at the light cast from under the door.
The next morning, she found muddy footprints that led from the hallway into her closet… though her bedroom door remained closed and the barricade intact.
The dark doesn’t always stay put. It spills into the garden tomorrow.
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