The Man From The Telly
Warning: Horror
27-year-old Elija Stain came home one night at about 10 pm. His fiance was out with her friends for her bachelorette party, oh how much he loved her, he couldn’t wait for them to be sworn to each other, prepared to spend the rest of his life with her.
The key turned in the lock as Elija swung the door open, and took one step into his home, and attempted to turn the light on, but the room remained obscured, “hmph” Elija thought, the switch must have blown.
The wooden floor creaked eerily as Elija made his way to his brown cushioned chair sitting in front of the television. By this time of night, all that could be heard was the faint sound of running water and an owl, hooting repeatedly, as if trying to send a message that was falling on deaf ears.
Elija let himself go, and his body collapsed into the comfortable piece of furniture. He grabbed the remote and began mindlessly looking through the catalog of shows and movies offered by Netflix.
As he settled on a show and prepared to turn his brain off after a long day of work, the TV suddenly switched off. Befuddled Elija got up, to check the power cord, somehow it had unlodged itself from the socket. Annoyed, he bent down and put it back into its proper position, light returned to the room, and the TV turned back on.
Elija went back to his seat, but the screen was now not what he had turned on.
Staring at him was a light gray entity with bloodshot eyes and a tall leaning figure. Its body was not proportional, and its nails were long and dirty.
Slowly the entity’s mouth opened, forming a long twisted smile, revealing its crooked teeth.
“What the hell?” Elija whispered apprehensively.
Slowly, as if not wanting to be noticed the creature began moving its finger closer and closer to the screen, its long yellow fingernail passing the border.
In a jerk movement, Elija got up from his seat and took a step back from his chair, his face was covered with awe and horror.
The gray thing began pulling itself out from the TV, first, it got its two arms out and used them to launch out. It hit the floor and slowly got up revealing its true height, the ceiling was an inch from its head.
With the same creepy smile, the being lunged at Elija, holding him to the floor.
He wrathed and punched, but the monster seemed to have an almost supernatural strength.
This moved its hand from Elija’s neck to his mouth and used his other hand to slash a scratch across his throat, Elija began bleeding from his neck.
Elija attempted to scream, but could not, all he could do was let the tears sweep down his cheeks, knowing it was the end.
The monster slowly put scratch after scratch on Elija’s neck, ending in a quick sweep through his throat.
Using his last breath, Elija spoke his final words.
“Please, don't let her see me”
His heart stopped beating and his body went limp.
The stranger, still smiling his crooked smile, grabbed Elija from his foot and dragged him out of his home.
In the dead of night, it through Elija into the running river outside his home.
The owl stopped hooting.
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