Ray’s family had moved to an old two-floor house, with big empty rooms and creaking floorboards. Both his parents worked, so he was often alone when he came home from school. One late evening, Ray came home and called out, “Mum?” He heard her sing a song from upstairs, “Yeeeeees?” Ray called her again as he climbed the stairs to see which room she was in, and heard, “Yeeeeees?” Just as Ray reached for the handle of the door to let himself in to the room, he heard the front door downstairs open. His mother called in a cheery voice, “Ray, are you at home?” Ray froze for a few seconds before running down the stairs, but as he glanced back from the top of the stairs, the door to the room slowly opened. For a moment, Ray saw a strange ugly mass in there, and didn’t know what it was, but it was staring at him. Ray’s family immediately moved from there