It originally appeared as part of an audio compilation called Blood and Smoke, and the audio scared me even more. I think that what scares us varies widely from one individual to the next (I've never been able to understand why Peruvian boomslangs give some people the creeps, for example), but this story scared me while I was working on it. But something nice happened: the story seduced me, and I ended up writing all of it. Most of all, I wanted to provide concrete examples of the principles I'd been blathering about in the text. I wrote the first three or four pages as part of an appendix for my On Writing book, wanting to show readers how a story evolves from first draft to second. The only unusual thing about it is that I never intended to finish it. As well as the ever-popular premature burial, every writer of shock/suspense tales should write at least one story about the Ghostly Room At The Inn.
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