MARIO KIEFER

Whenever he left the house, he always wore his mask. It hid his true face well. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

When first he saw the ghost, he scoffed. It was his guilt that haunted him. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

Possession is nine-tenths of the law. At least that’s what the demon told me. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

He looked in the mirror. An old man stared back. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

For months she begged him to let her go. At the edge of the cliff, he did. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

He swore that he would never leave her. She locked him in the basement to be certain. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

She loved the child with all of her heart. That the father was the Devil played no part. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

“Pshaw,” he said in response to their admonition that ghosts were trapped in the hotel. When he tried to leave, he could not. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

He locked the door to hide from the monster. He could not get away from himself. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

He saged the house to rid it of ghosts. The ghosts saged the house to rid it of him. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

Because she was very scared of her mother’s Harlequin doll, surreptitiously, she threw it in the garbage that night before bed. When she opened her eyes in the morning, the doll stared back at her. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

“I don’t believe in ghosts!” he yelled. “I don’t believe in you,” the ghost cried back. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

Each night he heard the pitter-patter of little feet. He had no children. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

He thought he had outwitted the Devil when he made his pact for everlasting life. Forever is its own hell. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

He wanted ribs for dinner. He didn’t know they would be his own. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

She sat in the bluebonnets to take her school pictures. She never heard the rattle. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

She was only going to be gone a moment, she said. The blue and red lights at the doorway proved her lie. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

“Horror,” he said, “is in the eyes of the beholder.” In the dark basement, he added her eyes to his collection on the shelf. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

She told herself that it was nothing when she heard the bumps in the night. In the morning, she saw the muddy footprints in her bedroom. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory

He swore to love his wife to death. He did. #TwoSentenceHorrorStory