A Deal With The Reaper

🩸 Merch and apparel: darkhorrornarrations.comIf this one got under your skin, hit follow so you do not miss the next one. New original long-form horror narrations every week.Ten years ago I drove out to a swamp turnout at Manchac drunk in the middle of the night, and I made a deal with a man in a heavy dark coat.My brother had been diagnosed with stage four esophageal cancer that afternoon. The doctor had given him six months. I told the man at the turnout I would do anything. The man said he could give my brother ten more years of life. Cancer gone. Full life. He said that at the end of those ten years I would owe him a decade returned. An equal decade, in shape and value. He asked me if I accepted the terms.I said yes.A month later the doctors could not find the tumor anywhere. Nobody could explain it. They used the word miracle in writing.For ten years I convinced myself the man at the turnout had never been real. I told myself I had been drunk and broken and that my brain had stitched together a story to explain a remission the doctors could not explain. I told myself it had never happened.Last Tuesday a man in a heavy dark coat started standing across the street from my house at seven forty-seven every evening. My brother started seeing him outside his house in Chalmette at the same time. My daughter started drawing him into her school art.The ten years are up.He has come to collect what he is owed.And the terms are not what I thought I had agreed to.---Settle in, turn the lights down, and let this one carry you under. A full original long-form sleep horror narration from Dark Horror Narrations. Stay through the swamp, through the gravel turnouts, through the dark Louisiana September. Some of the worst trades a man makes are the ones he makes for the people he loves the most.#horrorstories #scarystories #sleephorror #darkhorrornarrations #horrornarration #louisianagothic #folkhorror #supernaturalhorror #creepypasta #darkfiction #reapers #deals #manchacswamp #longformhorror #sleepstory #horrorpodcast #scarystoriestofallasleep