Half-Minute Horrors

Half-Minute Horrors is a collection of scary stories.From authors like Lemony Snicket,Erin Hunter,Neil Gaimen and lots lots more.My favorites were the picture ones, especially The tales of Alexandria and Rose.But i don't know how to put a picture up here(yet anyways)so i am going to read you my favorite text one instead


Something you ought to know
Lemony Snicket
"The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing"is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know,but don't know,about something that is happening very close to them.For instance ,you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.He is a quiet man ,which is why you don't know about him.You don't know how he gets into your home,or how he finds his way to the room in which you sleep.You don't know how he can stare at you for so long without blinking,and you don't know how he manages to be gone by morning without a trace ,and you don't know where he purchased the long sharp ,knife,curved like a cresent moon,that he holds in his left hand somethimes just millimeters from your eyes ,which are closed and flickering in dreams.There are,of course,things he does not know about you either.He does not what you are dreaming about , But then of course it may be that he does not care.His clothes are rumpled and have odd rips in them here and there .One of his coat sleeves is longer than the other,and this may be to cover his right hand . The sleeve is long enough that if you were to wake up and see him ,which you never do, you might not see that his right hand is strange and crooked .It would take a while , in the darkness of the room,to notice it is missing three fingers.He comes every night.His right hand does not know what the left is doing.



I thought this was an awesome book.However i would not recommend it to people who are prone to nightmares.Happy Reading :D