He came semi-awake in the night lying propped up on the hospital bed. His senses tingled with the creepy sensation of not being alone. Something else was in the room with him, standing close over the bed, watching him.

The bony figure of a woman in a shiny leather coat. Her hair was a garish, unnatural red color. There was something familiar about her that frightened Price. He had seen her someplace before, but he couldn’t remember where.

In the dim nightlight of the room, he couldn’t see her clearly. He raised himself off the pillows so that a shaft of light from the corridor let him see her better.

Her face wasn’t there. In its place was something chalky white twisted into a knotted, featureless blur.

Price screamed aloud. He kept screaming until the night nurse came in and turned on the lights.

The thing by the bed wasn’t there anymore.

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