3 Creepy Horror Stories

They say the devil's greatest trick was convincing the world he doesn't exist. But that's giving the devil too much credit. The truth is, we convince ourselves.
We see the apartment listing that's too good to be true and tell ourselves it's just good luck. We pick up the hitchhiker on a stormy night, despite the warnings ingrained since childhood. We admire the neighbor's perfect roses that bloom in winter and call it an eccentric green thumb.
We are masters of our own deception, architects of our own undoing.
In the following stories, you'll meet people just like you—desperate, curious, neighborly. People who looked at the warning signs and decided, for reasons that seemed perfectly rational at the time, to ignore them. People who discovered, too late, that evil doesn't announce itself with horns and a pitchfork. It arrives with a smile, a reasonable explanation, and often, a price too tempting to refuse.
These stories aren't about monsters hiding under your bed. They're about the monsters hiding in plain sight—behind the black door, you promised never to open, in the hitchhiker with too many teeth, in the beautiful garden next door where pets go missing.
So lock your doors if you must. Check under your bed. Draw the curtains tight.
But know this: the evil out there isn't trying to break in.
It's waiting for you to invite it inside.