Mongrel

"Long pig was always better from the young..."

Chubby, nine year old Mongrel was smart -- Isaac had told him so. He knew that he had been cursed since birth, and he knew that it was only because of Isaac that his mother had allowed him to survive inside her womb.

On the fateful day that his mother finally left him, surviving on the outside proved to be difficult as well...

"Any evil will lurk in the dark and jump on a small thing as prey."

...and as he sat there alone on his favorite fourth step and waited -- waited for Isaac to return with his mother -- he found that what came through the door was not Isaac. 

What dragged him from his home was not Isaac, but everything that goes bump in the night, and Mongrel soon discovered that the bogeyman would never, ever hide beneath the bed.

Mongrel is a mini story from the anthology Horror Classics