He was only waiting for his sweetheart. The semi-detached house stood quiet in the twilight — his half warm and lit, the adjoining half empty and dark. But when a light flickers behind the shuttered windows next door, curiosity gives way to a creeping dread that something — someone — is watching from the other side of the wall. In barely a dozen pages, Nesbit builds a masterclass of mounting terror: the unbearable weight of a locked door, a shared wall, and a truth too horrible to name. For those who understand that the scariest thing in a haunted house is what you bring with you when you enter.
