Finding a Good Scare

The days are getting shorter and the nights are creeping in.
As you leave work (sometimes its own House of Horrors) and walk to your car, a brisk breeze snakes through your thin jacket.
The first of the season’s dead leaves swirls in front of you, creating a Mostly Ghostly visage in the half-darkness. You shake off the ensuing chill and turn down Valley Street, suppressing the Haunted Hollow feeling in your gut.
You continue toward your car, passing Eerie Acres of Korn Maze, a seemingly Haunted Schoolhouse, Dark Pumpkin shadows and dancing gray reeds that evoke irrational fears of stalking Killer Clowns.
Over the next ridge in an almost Hidden Valley, your parking garage comes into sight. After this daunting walk through a self-imposed Land of Illusion, the garage resembles a yawning Haunted Cave beneath the looming, blue-black sky.
As you fumble through your pocket for your keys, classic and timeless Legends of Horror ooze through the Terrormaze of your mind.
You grasp the cold pieces of metal that you hope will save you, but they just manage to unlock deeper, more toxic Chambers in your subconscious.
Visions of Horror in 3-D flash and Slash before you, displaying Castles of Carnage that are linked by Blood Trails and ruled by the Angel of Death.
You reach out your hand toward your car, trying to steady yourself and suppress the Nightmare. You turn the key in the lock, swing the heavy door open and dive into the Black Bog that awaits.
Quickly, you pull the door closed and lock all the doors. You exhale; finally safe. But, as you drive toward home and the fears and Panic increasingly evaporate, you find yourself increasingly deflated and more than a bit bored.
Then you get an idea. You pick up your phone and call a friend.
“Hey, want to go to a haunted house tonight?”
Good thing you have plenty to choose from.

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