Shadow of Darkness

He was sound asleep. He was dreaming a pleasant dream when suddenly he knew he was in great danger. He snapped awake alertly and looked around the small bedroom of the old, eerie house. Curtains of darkness eclipsed the gleaming moonlight outside his bedroom window; only a small beam of light emitted from the black night. He didn't know how he knew, but he did. Something bad was coming - something terribly evil.
For some reason his eye was drawn to a corner of the room, his window. On the other side of the wall was the dark night, the boundless serenity tinted with unfamiliar trepidation.…