The Room with No Window — Part II
Jonathan Hale thought he had escaped the nightmare, but the room had other plans.
The night he burst out of the boarding house in London, he was barely able to breathe. His clothes were torn, his fingernails cracked and bleeding, his eyes wild with terror. When the police found him, he babbled about a room without windows, about walls that whispered and a door that never stayed shut. They dismissed it as hysteria. The old building, they said, had plenty of cellars and crawlspaces. A trick of the dark, a bout of madness. Doctors labeled it sleep deprivation and trauma. But Jonathan knew the truth. He could still feel the weight of the walls pressing in when he closed his eyes, still hear the low hum of something waiting behind that door.