Midnight anthem

Lock your window

Check that door

If you hear breathing

Count to four

Something scratching at the window

Teeth on glass

Keeps saying my name when no one is there

Grandma’s old stories coming up to the surface

Surface

Every shadow twice as tall

All the spooky tales we read

Ghosts in the ceiling

Demons in my head

Vampires at the window

Monsters in the shed

If the moon turns red

Don’t look

Play dead

Midnight drawing closer

Closer

With the wolves howling at the moon

Zombies watching,waiting for their next meal

Midnight drawing closer

Closer

Kitchen floor creaks

Empty hall

Footsteps echo

Nothing there at all

Howling rising like a siren call

Fur and fangs at the window

Window

Candles flicker

Circle drawn

Clock stuck right before the dawn

Claws on carpet

Breath so near

Say a name three times

Feel the fear

With eyes staring back at you