The Red Door
Old Mrs. Gable's house had a single, unsettling feature: a bright, glossy red door in the cellar, bolted shut from the outside. One Halloween, a group of teenagers dared their friend Leo to open it. With a rusty creak, the bolts slid back, revealing not a room, but pitch blackness and a smell like old, wet earth. When Leo stepped across the threshold, the door slammed shut instantly. The others scrambled to open it, but the bolts were inexplicably locked tight again, and from behind the wood, they heard a muffled, happy laughter that wasn't Leo's.