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A strange house will make strange noises.

Strange noises.

Sometimes, even loud enough to wake you up in the middle of the night.

Especially way out here in this cabin in the woods all by yourself.

And that creaking noise just now,

well, that could have been anything,

but it really couldn't have been what it sounded like.

Because it sounded like the front door, slowly swinging open.

It couldn't have been that. You locked that front door. Locked, deadbolted it. You're sure

of it. Out of long, city living habit, you're sure you locked that front door.

Didn't you?

Then again, you could have sworn that you'd close the bedroom door too.

But there it is now.

Gaping, wide open over there, staring back at you.

Perfect blackness in the deep dark room.

Well, there isn't any reason for you to keep staring at it, though.

Those little sounds from out there are not careful footsteps across the other room.

No. No, they're just the sounds of the house settling or mice chewing on something in these old cabin walls.

But you should get up and shut that bedroom door.

That's what you should do.

That's what you're going to do.

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