a dark house with a path leading to the front door

Genre: HorrorTheme: Fear of the unseenSetting: An old, abandoned house at the edge of town---The locals called it Hollow House. Once a grand mansion, it now stood crumbling, with shattered windows and ivy crawling up its cracked walls. No one dared step inside--not since the disappearance of the previous owner years ago. The few who wandered too close swore they heard whispers or saw shadowy figures in the windows.Jamie didn’t believe any of it.“It’s just an old house,” he said to his friend Mark earlier that day. “Ghosts aren’t real. I’ll prove it.”Armed with only a flashlight and his phone, Jamie pushed through the overgrown yard and approached the towering front door. The wood was warped, but it opened with an eerie creak as if it had been waiting for him.The smell hit him first--a rancid mix of mildew and something metallic. Dust floated in the beam of his flashlight, and his footsteps echoed unnervingly in the empty space.The grand entry hall was a portrait of decay. A chandelier hung precariously, its c