Balaoo

"It was ten o'clock at night and it was hours since a living soul had
appeared in the streets of Saint Martin des Bois. Not a light showed in the
windows, for the shutters were hermetically closed. The village lay as though
deserted. The inhabitants had locked themselves in long before twilight; and
nothing would induce them to unbolt their doors before dawn."

-Exerpted from "Balao"