Nightmare Puzzle

Scraping sounds awake you from your sleep. Something putrid is moving underneath the bed with razor talons only a thin mattress away from tearing you to shreds. Cringing with disbelief in a panic you suddenly flee from the bedroom and down the stairs screaming.</P><P>In the living room your corner vision catches a pair of glowing eyes shifting across the large picture window and when you turn to look they are...still there only now joined with a drooling maw of fangs.</P><P>As your heart races to the point of bursting from your chest you flatten yourself against the wall trying praying to remain unseen until a ghostly disembodied voice whispers your name from down the hallway. It sounds like a child but you and your wife have no children.</P><P>Your wife? Oh God where is she?</P><P>There in the kitchen she stands smiling. At last a piece of sanity from this insane night and you rush to your loving mate. Behind her back she holds a gleaming butcher knife waiting to return your embrace. In one swift stoke her hand arcs down and you...</P><P>Turn the page onto the next chapter nervously anticipating what new horror awaits you this evening.