One night, while a woman was checking her emails, she noticed an odd one with no name or subject. She opened it, and read the message.

She just sighed and deleted it, thinking it was a stupid prank off some daft teenager. She was always getting them. But then, she checked the time on her computer.

Weird, she thought. She turned off the light and climbed into bed, not at all worried about the strange email. She got ready for work in the morning, getting a shower and eating her breakfast. She closed and locked the doors and windows, and then turned round to go and shut the front door.

She shuffled the letters. Bills, bills, invitation, bills…

She stopped as she discovered the handwritten envelope, the writing in red ink. Opening it fearfully, she pulled out the grubby letter and unfolded it nervously.

She checked her watch. It was dead on half nine. Trembling, she dropped the letter onto the carpet and fumbled in her bag for her front door key. She locked the door and drove to work.

After dinner, she was walking down an empty alley to go back to work. Suddenly, her mobile started ringing. She picked it up, expecting it to be her mum or her boyfriend, and held it to her ear.

She dropped the phone, screaming. Spot on quarter past one. She phoned her boss and told him that she didn’t feel very well, and had to go home. All afternoon she stayed huddled up on the sofa, trembling and crying.

At dinner, she made a ready meal and ate it in her living room. She picked up the remote and switched the TV on. A clock appeared on the screen.

6 ‘o’ clock! It read.

She screamed.

There in front of her was the shadow of a wolf.

*****

Alice’s grandma told her that when she died, she had to cut off her head and put it on the table. When her Grandma died, she did just that.

Whenever anyone in Alice’s family died, she would cut off their heads and put them on the table.

One day, while Alice was making her dinner downstairs, she heard a strange sound, like someone singing:

She went upstairs, and on the landing she saw…

The head’s of the people in her family.

*****

One night, a girl was taking a shower. All of a sudden, she saw something jump into the bathroom, through the window.

She screamed, and her parents came running into the bathroom. They looked at the thing that had flew in through the window.

It was a black cat, dripping wet from the rain outside.

“We’ll keep the cat,” said the girl, picking it up and wrapping it in a towel. When she went to sleep, the cat fell asleep at the foot of her bed.

The next day, the girl woke up and felt something on her face. She tried to scream, but she couldn’t breathe. The cat was pretty much stuck to her face.

Finally, she got it off, and tried to take it to the vet on her bike. She didn’t want the cat anymore. But, when she was riding to the vets, the cat escaped.

When she went to bed that night, she heard a soft singing sound:

The next day, she decided that she definitely needed to get rid of the strangle cat. But on the way, it escaped again and got killed by a lorry.

The next night, the girl heard:

*****

A girl went to the antique shop with her brother to get a new doll for her birthday. She badly wanted a little Japanese pot doll that was displayed on a shelf in the corner. It had Japanese clothes and a decorated fan. She picked it up and told her brother she was buying it.

"That's a right old piece of crap," he said, pulling a face at the doll. "You're not buying it."

His sister frowned. "Well, I think she's lovely. Her dress is so pretty and her eyes are so shiny! Look at her lovely hair! She's not crap at all!"

So they bought it and took it home. But her brother still said things about it, calling it crappy and worthless and whatever he could think of.

When they got home, she put it on the special shelf where they put ornaments and trophies, things special to the family. "She looks so beautiful," the girl said, admiring it. Her brother just raised his eyebrow and walked off.

That night, they all went to bed and left the doll downstairs on their special shelf.

Suddenly, the boy woke up. He could hear a soft voice:

He froze in bed.

He let out a little yelp.

...

The next day his family found him lying on his bed with a fan stuck through his heart.

Story originally by KT, edited by me.

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