Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark- The Thing

THE THING

Ted Martin and Sam Miller were good friends. They spent a

lot of time together. On this particular night they were

sitting on a fence near the post office talking about one

thing and another. There was a field of turnips across the

road. Suddenly they saw something crawl out of the field

and stand up. It looked like a man, but in the dark it was

hard to tell for sure. Then it was gone. But soon it

appeared again. It walked halfway across the road, then it

turned around and went back into the field. Then it came

out a third time and started toward them. By now Ted and

Tom were scared, and they started running. But when they

finally stopped, they decided they were being foolish. They

weren't sure what had scared them. So they decided to go

back and get a better look. Pretty soon they saw it, for it

was coming to meet them. It was wearing black pants, a

white shirt, and black suspenders. Sam said, "I'm going to

try to touch it. Then we'll know if it's real." He walked

up to it and peered into its face. It had bright

penetrating eyes sunk deep in its head. It looked like a

skeleton. Ted took one look and screamed, and again he and

Sam ran, but this time the skeleton followed them. When

they got to Ted's house they stood in the doorway and

watched it. It stayed out in the road for a while. Then it

disappeared. A year later Ted got sick and died. Toward the

end, Sam sat up with him every night. The night Ted died,

Sam said he looked just like the skeleton.

Dim your lights down low, crank up your speakers and enjoy!!

The Thing
Written and directed for the screen by Stephen Simmons
Inspired by Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Cast: Marcus Salem, Stephen Simmons, Guy Wheatley and Christel Edwards
Cinematographer: Matt Tucker
Special Effects: Christel Edwards
Boom Mic Operators: Ashley Murphy and Guy Wheatley
Produced By: Stephen Simmons, Matt Pool and Christel Edwards
Night Of Productions 2011

One of many horror shorts of An October Evening 2011

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• scary
• stories
• to
• tell
• in
• the
• dark;the
• thing;dark;disturbing;Alvin
• Schwartz;stephen
• simmons;2011;an
• october
• evening;creepy;

[HaggardandMetal]

Excellent job, fellas. I've been reading and being terrified by these stories since I was a kid, and you've really done them justice with your shorts. This one is my favorite yet.

[castofshadows]

@HaggardandMetal Thanks HaggardandMetal it was my favorite one to make. More to come.......

[voltaman33]

@MultiLoren23 Now that one scared me shitless.

[voltaman33]

Ha ha ha...I am scared of my ass! GREAT JOB!

[MultiLoren23]

could you do mi ti dough ty walker next?

[1692Productions]

You guys did a great job with this, very spooky and convincing!

[Garyromes]

Excellent Job, you guys really bought this story to life!!! Great Make up work, and I loved how you made the story your own!!! AWESOME!!

[woodlandmist77]

Wow, you guys did the story total justice, very well made. Audio was a bit too low, but ...wow...good job.

[PiscesGal]

You guys did an awesome job!

[ShannonJoannaBFF]

Now That was epic..

[westcoastbreath]

You should try shooting in HD if possible. Would make the dark shots look so much better. Great vid though. Subbed

[JASON4VOORHEES2]

ok I love horror you guys did a great job. The end part with the corpse even freaked me out. It gave me the chills. And ya the video was uploaded on my birth day plus this is one of my fave stories from the books. Thanks you guys for posting this. Please do some of the Scary Stories that I sent ya into video.