Short Story: Knock by Fredric Brown

Short Story. Pulp. Writing. Frederic Brown.

Knock by Fredric Brown

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long:

“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”

Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots. The horror, of course, isn’t in the two sentences at all; it’s in the ellipsis, the implication: what knocked at the door? Faced with the unknow…