WHO DARES TO ENTER!?!  

                       

          

Footsteps creaked on every step of the stairs and the handle of the door turned slowly making a "Crrr...crr...crrr.." sound. Jackob had absolutely no idea where he was. "Wandering off all the way from home to come to the 'Lawrence Restaurant', I have come to God knows where." he thought to himself, seeing the moss which rested over the black and grey walls of the old eerie house. Jackob scratched his head, trying to find an exit to escape that scary house. He had never believed in ghosts nor had he seen one in his dreams. He could merely guess what was in front of him in the dark. Just then, suddenly, he stopped walking. He could hear the footsteps of some other person along with his own ones. Immediately, the sound of the footsteps stopped. Jackob noticed in the dark something lying on the ground. He stooped down to pick up something like a small rat!! 

It scuttled away, obviously. And shocked Jackob ran towards where there was a prospect of finding a way to get out. But all he could find there was a girl crying with a doll in her hand. Jackob could not see her face. She was facing backwards. Her long unruly hair covered her face. And, of course it was pitch dark. What a scary environment! Jackob could not believe his own eyes when he viewed that without looking at him, the girl called out his name in a sobbing voice, "Jackob, Will you take me to your home? I want y'r help...!" Jackob's heart froze. He experienced chills down his back. An eerie and scary shout, "Aah!" as if some one was being killed, came from upstairs. With blood, cold as ice, Jackob, for the first time, pronounced the word, "JESUS!"; turned back to see the same girl looking at him with a smile, her eyes and nose not visible; and again turned back and saw no one. He suffered a fatal heart attack in a haunted house of South New York where every night, people could hear sounds of horrible cries and the house in front of which no one dared to walk after 12 A.M.!

                                                                         -KUBER NAG