On A Winter's Eve

By: Chris L. Adams

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

No one knew where they came from - a parallel world, another dimension, the Abyss? They had preyed on the inhabitants of a remote area for years, sometimes wiping out entire families, their numbers seeming augmented each time they returned, which was always in winter. But when they came this time they picked the wrong cabin . . . For many, the frightful remembrances of an awful event suffered during their youth fade with time. For others, however, the dreadful scene swells with passing years, driving sanity from its path. Decades after a night of terror, a man--his mind teetering on the ragged edge of madness inflicted by his childhood recollections--determines to face his fears by wakening the world to the monstrous visions that haunt his dreams. He sits down to pen a strange narrative describing an event his family suffered while living in an isolated cabin during a blizzard - on a night of soul-wrenching horror. This quick read is a short story in the Weird Tales tradition.