The Unknown

Deep in the South, in a plantation home, something evil lurks within the walls. The Unknown is a darkness that calls to those afflicted. Once heard, the Unknown implores it’s victims to do unthinkable acts of evil.

Stephanie is a an average college freshman casually invited to the Halloween party of upper class man, named Nick. She’s excited and nervous. Her costume will reveal what she’s been hiding all semester. Stephanie has a prosthetic leg from a car accident.

Nick doesn’t know she’s amputee, but the Unknown does. As soon as she crosses the threshold into the house the darkness feels her presence. At her most vulnerable time it calls her name, Stephanie, follow me.

She listens, thinking it’s a friend, Bruce, playing a prank, but she soon regrets her mistake. The Unknown possesses her. What it makes her do is something you’ll have to read in the book. It’s horrifyingly sad.

If you want to keep your friends this Halloween, don’t trespass where you’re not wanted and don’t listen to the Unknown.


The Unknown is a short horror story that takes 4900 words to tell. Included, as a bonus is preview of Martha Henley’s debut domestic thriller, Don't Kill For Me. It’s a twisting tale of a woman with a past, a secret admirer’s odd love notes, confessions of murder, and a serial killer that wishes Eileen Rests in Peace.