#503 Click-Clack the Rattlebag- Neil Gaiman
This is a short, well-developed horror story. A child is at
home in his family’s large, dark, dusty house. He is being watched by his
sister’s new boyfriend. He wants to hear a story before he goes to bed, and asks
for a story about Click-Clacks:
-Click-Clacks, said the boy, are the best monsters ever.
-Are they from Television?
-I don’t think so. I don’t thing any people know where they
come from. Mostly they come from the dark.
-Good place for a monster to come from.
-Yes.
So the boy and the boyfriend watching him walk down the
hallway to the boy’s bedroom while they talk about what makes a good
Click-Clack horror story. “Click-Clacks are much scarier than vampires.”
“They’re made of dark. And they come in when you don’t pay attention…and they
look like what you’re not expecting.”
While they discuss the anatomy of a good horror story, it
turns into a horror story. Click-Clack!
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