Monday, October 15, 2012

Don't open the door

Dear Arthur Kipps,
When you are in a house that is silent, except a heart throbbing, mysterious pounding in the upstairs nursery, your first instinct might be to find what is making the noise. You might even feel as Edgar Allan Poe elucidates, “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Were you possibly dreaming to see your long dead wife? I must beg you to come out of that wishful moment and look at the facts in front of you. There is that incredulous pounding coming from a room formerly thought to be empty in an old house. A house thought unoccupied just moments before.  A house left to be sold by an estranged mother who angrily committed suicide. After reviewing the former I would most definitely advise you not to open that door.
You have been in this bleak little town long enough to see people die, to glimpse a dark soulless ghost and to be at least slightly knowledgeable about the crazed mentally lost Jennet Humfrye who once lived there.
You should have been told enough to know that Ms. Humfrye is a mother who desperately fought for a child she didn’t have the mental stability to care for. If her child had stayed he could have possibly by emotionally wrecked and physically scarred in her care. The poor sweet innocent child was killed in the depths of a marshland. This child’s caregiver had been tricked into a visit like a rat eating craved cheese from a trap. This distraught mother couldn’t handle what had happened to her beautiful small boy. Dealing with the disparing loss led her to think of only one option; she hanged herself.
This relieving event caused the village to hope that this vicious woman would finally be gone but their desperate plea was shattered by a line of mysterious deaths. Village children were dying in simple painful ways and at every heartbreaking death a sudden glimpse of the heartless vengeful woman.
Shame on you if you don’t believe in ghosts, Ghosts roam the earth right next to the living. “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” according to Mr. Poe.
Mr. Kipp, how could you be so mindless to open the door to the murderous queen. This wench thrives on the blood of children and you do in fact have precious son to protect. Your son is the only living person left to carry on your late wife’s heir. Holding him in mind at the very least should keep you from opening that door despite the curiosity coursing through your veins. When the door to death is shut, it is most important for that door to stay shut. Opening the door to the wicked Pandora’s Box is not the option to choose.
If  you continue to feel the urge to go through that door that holds a curse to haunt generations for eternity, you surely have an incredibly sluggishly selfish mind. I am clearly explaining shortly and simply why opening the door would be an idea that is as friendly and comforting as an atomic bomb. Here I sit writing this letter even though a wiser writer once said, “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality,” Maybe these next words will be enough to impress your mind.
After selling your soul to devilish Jennet, leaving your needy hands to shake and perspire, causing your mind to become torn hopeless, letting fill with bizarre, threatening voices causing your morals and dreams to be ripped apart you will see.
I can only hope that after realizing you have left your son to a gruesome and heart wrenching fate. After seeing him die with a blank look rather than a hopeful tear stained face. You will finally realize that block of wood acting as a simple sturdy door, is the only thing keeping you from this murderous tormenting woman with a flagitious mind.

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