The Threshold

Dr. Samuel Kade hadn't slept in one hundred and twelve hours when he finally admitted that Elena Voss was right about the thin man.

When a patient arrives at the Pritchard Sleep Institute with an impossible diagnosis — three years without sleep, yet no cognitive decline — neurologist Samuel Kade dismisses it as a case study in sleep-deprivation hallucination. But the EEG doesn't lie: Elena Voss's brain is doing something that shouldn't be possible. And the figure she describes standing at the threshold of sleep — tall, thin, patient beyond measure — is beginning to appear in Dr. Kade's own doorway.

A chilling psychological horror story where the space between waking and sleep becomes a border that no one was ever meant to cross.

Genre: Psychological Horror / Cosmic Horror
Words: ~1,500
Series: Daily Horror Short Stories
Format: Digital Download (PDF)