What scares you?

Is it the strange knocking or scratching under your bed late at night? Perhaps it’s the cold spot that is right next to you in an otherwise warm room. Maybe it’s the footsteps heard on a floor in an empty corridor when you’re alone in the house.

Is it the low voices you can hear in the other room but can’t quite make out? Could it be the odd knocking sounds in the basement? Do you keep your closet door closed at night and your feet and hands well from the edges of the bed?

Can you walk into a room and know – just know – that something bad happened in it? Does the hair rise on the back of your neck and your skin chill to the bone?

Is it any – or all of these things that scare you?

Maybe it’s none of them.