Horror Story

Horror literature has never been so popular in recent years. Yet, reading these dozens of works that promise us an innovative terror, often trying to find an ounce of originality. It is often lost. But it happens nevertheless that some works stand out and manage to transmit us the wanted effect. It was one of the promises of Arthur Jansen when he wrote his book.

Here is an excerpt:

« One night, i was with my sister in the woods suddenly we heard a terribly scary noise. We were petrified, the noise sounded like a monster which was groaning at us but it seems to be a sob. Sister immediately wanted to go back home but i was really scared thus my limbs were petrified too. We decided to verify what it was : we came closer to the bush and we founded a horrible ghoul, it was an ugly monster with no lips and a brown dirt-stained skin, his nails were black and his teeth were broken and covered with the blood of the dead dog behind it. I immediately pushed back my sister because the ghoul sounded aggressive although she was wounded i don't know why but i immediately pitied the ghoul and when i came close to it she stopped hrowling. And she trusted me. I came close and I saw a hole in its stomack. It was raining now, we looked at each other straight in the eyes for five minutes and we were not scared of each other. It seemed an old and dried up woman, she was horribly skinny it looked like a corpse! She have long and white hair. The right side of her head was devoid of skin thus her bone was visible surrounded by rotten black flesh. Her eyes had no eyelids. She no longer had a nose however the hole in her skull suggested it should have been. I decided to take her in my arms, my sister was extremely frightened by the ghoul and she told me not to trust her. She was really light. I remember at the same moment a lightning struck the ground close to us. The atomosphere was darker at once and we felt a sense of discomfort. Suddenly a branch broke and we saw a second ghoul, that one was standing on his two legs in front of me he looked like a night hunter, held a dead rabbit, the blood of the rabbit flowed on its legs. I thought he wanted to give it to the ghoul i had helped. The wounded ghoul looked straight in the eyes of the second ghoul so as to tell him i wasn't dangerous. Then the night hunter came at me, he was very skinny and much taller than me, i could see his ribs. He just took the wounded ghoul and ran away ... »

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