Everyone’s telling scary stories for Halloween so I’ll talk about something that happened to me when I was a kid because hey, trauma never gets old.
#ScaryStories
Grady Hendrix
@grady_hendrix
I write horror. This place has gotten super boring. Find me elsewhere: gradyhendrix.com
- RL Stine is 81 today and this man served as the gateway to horror for a generation!
- Replying to @grady_hendrixBut sometimes when I'm at someone’s house I’ll smell a little BO coming from their central air conditioning, and I’ll wonder who’s living back there in their ducts. Who's living in the dark?
- Replying to @grady_hendrixTurns out what had crawled into our vents & died was the guy. We lived in an old house with lots of space between the walls & big ducts. He’d been living in them since May. At least.
- Happy birthday to the actor who gave us Dr. Sam Loomis, probably the worst psychiatrist in motion picture history.
- Replying to @grady_hendrixNo one ever identified him. He was buried as a John Doe. To this day I can’t look inside the vents in houses.
- Replying to @grady_hendrixHe’d put a foam pad beside my bedroom vent so he’d be comfortable while he watched me. The police said he’d made lots of “drawings” but when I asked they pretended they hadn’t said anything.
- Replying to @grady_hendrixWhen I turned 9 I realized I could sneak downstairs after everyone was asleep and eat anything I wanted in the fridge. No one ever noticed!
- Replying to @grady_hendrixThen in August, I was in my room reading when I looked up. There’s an A/C vent over my bed. Behind the vent a pair of eyes were watching me.
- Replying to @grady_hendrixMy bedroom door didn’t lock so I kept a steak knife under my pillow. I must’ve stabbed myself in the hand 1000 times checking to make sure it was there.