Short Gothic Story Examples

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Gothic story As we walked through the woods on the dark cold night in October we notice screaming of what we had thought to be the neighbor girl. We creep closer to the large mansion and climb the gates to get in the massive front yard. As me and my friends Kevin, Douglas, and randy reach the front door, we slowly creep open the front door, we hear screams and yells and very quickly leave the situation. We head back to the house for the night and decide that we will make a plan and return to the mansion tomorrow. As we wake the next morning we all share our ideas of what we should do tonight and then Kev explains how he thought he heard some knocking and laughing in my bedroom window at about 3 am. As we keep talking my mother Debra called …show more content…

As we are near half way I turn around to notice that only 2 of my friends were with me and that Kev must have fallen behind the group. We have now waited in the woods for 45 minutes and no sign of Kev anywhere. As my friends and I start to get worried we head back to the mansion to try to figure out where our friend has disappeared to. As we slowly approach the house we run into a very creepy looking guy walking with his cats and his little baby son. He started questioning us on if we knew who this kid that he found in his house, and what we were doing in the wood in the woods at 12:30 in the morning. We refused to answer his questions and decided to leave the situation and hope that Kev made it back to the house …show more content…

For the next 3 weeks all I can think about its what went on that and what will be the next thing we do when I am let off the hook. As I start to plan the return to “ The Mansion” I start to hear weird noises coming from the woods outside of the house. As I peek out of the window of my small upstairs room, I see 4 people in black outfits slowly walking up to the garage door of my house. As I go to get my parents I realize that they had left to go to the grocery store about an hour ago. I then proceed to call my friends and tell them all to meet at my house asap so we can head back to “The Mansion” sometime tonight as we have all been curious for the last 3 weeks. As they begin to arrive, I begin to think that the people I saw walking through the woods may have been my neighbor Dave and his 3 kids heading back home from the river they were fishing at earlier that

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