Short Stories Before Bed (Horror)

Mysterious Painting

As the night began to fall on this quiet residential complex, the wind rustled coldly among the towering trees. The silence was only interrupted by the rumblings of rare footsteps from the residents of the complex who rarely went out of the house at quiet hours like this.

In one of the tightly shut houses, a man named Daniel sits in the living room with deep tension. He just received a mysterious package today. The package came without a clear sender, only the address of the house was clearly indicated. It contained an old painting wrapped neatly with dark brown wrapping paper.

The painting had a sinister aura. The picture on the canvas looks like a view of the house that looks exactly like Daniel's house. But something is wrong. In the painting, his house is drowned in darkness, with the night sky full of blood-red stars. In front of his house, there was a large shadow that was not clearly visible, but gave the impression of a terrible threat.

Daniel felt bad. He reached into the wrapping paper and began to read a piece of the note placed on top of the painting. An unknown handwriting told him that the painting was "A View from Another World." Daniel was getting confused.

As he looked at the painting more closely, he realized that there was something strange about it. Beside his house, there were red scratches flowing like blood, as if the painting was alive and breathing by itself. He rubbed the scratches away, but the pseudo-blood only spread further.

As Daniel tried to keep his eyes off the painting, he felt like it was calling him. He felt trapped in the gripping view of the picture. Fear began to creep into his mind.

That night, Daniel had trouble sleeping. The painting was placed in the living room, but every time he closed his eyes, the horrifying image of the painting continued to play in his mind. He felt like something was catching him outside the window.

The next morning, as the sun began to shine, Daniel decided to investigate more about the painting. He took a piece of paper with a shipping address and tried to find information about the sender or the history of the painting. However, his efforts were in vain. There is no record of the delivery or origin of the painting.

Over the next few days, strange events continued to occur. As he walked past the painting, he felt like the invisible shadow eyes on the image were following his movements. The sound of wind whirring and footsteps at night grew even more so, even though no one else was seen around.

Things get worse when Daniel starts having nightmares every night. In those dreams, he felt like he was trapped in the painting, inside a house drowning in darkness with a terrifying shadow approaching him. Cold sweat flowed from his body every time he woke up.

Frightened and confused, Daniel tries to contact a parapsychologist he met on a television show. The expert agreed to come to his house to investigate the mysterious painting. After seeing the painting, the parapsychologist scrunched his forehead.

"There's something very strange about this painting" he said. "It may be a portal between our world and another world."

He explains that the painting may be a means used by supernatural entities to communicate or disrupt the human world. The parapsychologist then decided to conduct a meditation session near the painting, in an attempt to understand further what was happening.

During the meditation sessions, the atmosphere became even more sinister. The light of the lights went off, and the room around the painting went dark. Parapsychologists continue to concentrate, trying to understand the message the entity is trying to convey in the painting.

Suddenly, the shadows seen in the painting began to move. It crawled out of the painting and towards the parapsychologist. Daniel could only watch in fear as the shadow drew nearer. The parapsychologist appears to be hypnotized by the entity, and then, with one sudden move, the entity enters the expert's body.

That evil entity has managed to gain control of the body of a parapsychologist. The expert's eyes turned red, and an evil smile was engraved on his face. He spoke in an inhumane voice, claiming that his body was now the perfect container for the entity.

A few days passed, and the parapsychologist who had been taken over by the evil entity began to show signs of increasingly strange behavior. He began to spend time near the painting all day, talking to the entities inside. The painting seems to be a window into another world that can only be seen by the parapsychologist.

Daniel, increasingly anxious, tried to find help. He contacted an occultist he met at a seminar a few years ago. The occultist agrees to come to Daniel's house and help confront the evil entity that has taken over the parapsychologist.

The arrival of the occultist was met with tension. They knew that a confrontation with that evil entity would not be easy, and the risks were great. The occultist began to examine the painting and the space around it. He tries to communicate with the evil entity in an ancient language that only the entity understands.

However, the evil entity simply shook its head arrogantly. He felt that nothing could beat him. He mocked the occultist, revealing that he had become one with the body of the parapsychologist and would never be released.

The situation is getting tense. The evil entity began to show its power. The lights inside the house started flickering for no reason, objects flew unnoticed. The occultist attempted to chant ancient spells to separate the evil entity from the body of the parapsychologist.

When the spells were spoken, the evil entity groaned and showed signs of separation from the body of the parapsychologist. But the entity will not give up. He launched a counterattack, throwing objects around him with supernatural powers.

The battle between the occultist and the evil entity was becoming increasingly fierce. The painting on the wall seemed to be alive, with horrifying images moving and changing. Strange sounds echoed throughout the room, and the cold wind that suddenly appeared made the atmosphere even more terrifying.

Daniel, still trapped in fear, tries to find a way to help. He looked around and found a bottle of dark red paint left over from his painting job a while ago. Desperately, he grabbed the bottle and poured it over the painting.

The dark red paint flowed down and hit the painting with splattered blood. The evil entity looked surprised and shouted loudly. The occultist saw this opportunity and chanted the last spell with great force. The evil entity began to separate from the body of the parapsychologist.

When the evil entity is nearly unleashed, occultists and Daniel work together to cover the painting with a thick cloth. The entity was trapped in the painting which was now tightly wrapped, and the cloth was tightly bound.

The evil entity groaned in despair, but its strength grew weaker and weaker. The occultist shouted the last words and asked the entity to go to another world that was supposed to be his place. With a terrifying scream, the entity disappeared along with the cloth-wrapped painting.

When all returned to normal, the parapsychologist who had been taken over by the evil entity fell unconscious. His body seemed weak, but he had been freed from evil influences. Daniel was relieved, though he knew that this terrible experience would stick in his memory forever.

The occultists who managed to help them, explained that the painting was the gateway between the human world and the other world. The evil entity has been trapped in painting for centuries, and he must be pacified and repatriated to his true world.

That night, they burn the painting with a special ceremony, convincing that the evil entity is returning to the other world. Daniel and the parapsychologists who have recovered from the influence of the evil entity are grateful that they succeeded in driving the evil out of their homes.

They agreed to never open the door to such an entity again and learn from this terrifying experience. The house in the quiet residential complex ended up being a quiet and safe place, with no horrifying shadows lurking from the other world.