두줄짜리 공포이야기 (Two-sentence horror stories)
웹서핑하다가 찾았는데 재밌어서 올려 봅니다.
우리말로 옮기는 재주가 메주라서 원문 그대로 올림을 너그럽게 봐주세요.
저는 마지막 이야기가 가장 마음에 드네요.
제가 그 상황이라면 무서워서 돌았을 듯...
1.
Out in the garden, the girl in the blue dress with butterflies on it stood on her tippy-toes, trying to reach one of the pretty things in the tree’s branches.
When the corpse began to swing at her touch, she laughed merrily.
2.
I can’t move, breathe, speak or hear and it’s so dark all the time. If I knew it would be this lonely, I would have been cremated instead.
3.
The doctors told the amputee he might experience a phantom limb from time to time. Nobody prepared him for the moments though,
when he felt cold fingers brush across his phantom hand.
4.
Don’t be scared of the monsters, just look for them. Look to your left, to your right, under your bed, behind your dresser, in your closet
but never look up, she hates being seen.
5.
I woke up to hear knocking on glass. At first, I though it was the window until I heard it come from the mirror again.
6.
I thought my “No Soliciting” sign on the door would take care of the problem. How was I to know Death is illiterate?
7. The contributor fesses up that this comes from The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror:
In the backyard, after the family moved away: blue chipped food bowl, worn-out dog collar, torn little boy shorts, rope; in the corner the faint
outline of a grave, dog leash lying like half a set of parentheses. Then you remember: the family had no pets.
8.
The worst thing wasn’t that he couldn’t stop being eaten alive. The worst thing was that he was the one doing the eating.
9.
Being buried alive was bad enough. Realizing I wasn’t alone in my own grave was worse.
10. This is the highest rated on the site, not surprisingly …
I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him,
another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody on my bed.”
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Finally, one famous alternative that doesn’t get a mention, as far as I’ve seen, is this, from Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1948:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
출처입니다.