The Family Portraits is a scary story about a hunter who stays the night in a creepy old cabin in the middle of a large forest.
Family Portraits
A long time ago, there was a man who went out hunting in the woods. As night fell, he found himself in an unfamiliar part of the forest. He walked and walked, but he couldn’t find his way home. Wandering aimlessly in the dark, he eventually came to a small clearing where an old, ramshackle cabin stood. Tired and weary, he decided to see if he could stay there for the night.
When he came closer to the cabin, he saw that the door was standing ajar. Poking his head inside, he could see that the little cabin was completely empty, but there was a bed and a fire burning in the fireplace. The hunter threw himself on the bed and decided to sleep there for the night. If the owner came back, he would ask his permission in the morning.
Lying on the bed, half-asleep, he looked around and was surprised to see the walls were covered with paintings. They appeared to be family portraits, all framed and painted in incredible detail. They seemed very life-like and, without exception, each family portrait was uglier than the next. The hideous faces in the paintings made him incredibly uneasy. The way they were painted made it seem as if the eyes were staring directly at him. It was incredibly unnerving.
He decided that the only way he was going to get any sleep was to ignore the hideous faces staring at him. So he turned on his side, facing the wall, pulled the blanket over his head and drifted off to sleep.
In the morning, the hunter woke up to find the cabin bathed in sunlight. When he looked up, he discovered there were no family portraits on the walls of the cabin, only windows.
I’ve read this one before, in one of the three “Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark” books. I’ve always found it to be unnerving, but not scary, per se. But I digress; it’s still an interesting read.
creeepy totall. so the people were hideous and staring at him! O_O
That is a creepy story but not creepy enough why din’t the cabin hunter guy find him dead
So scary!
So the people on the portraits were people on windows. And how were they looking from high up, like some windows are on top of other. Just weried.
It was good, but I am so COnFUSED.
Great story. You won’t catch me walking anywhere in the daytime, let alone at NIGHT.
that waz good
That was creepy =) Everybody should think thrice before going out.And bring map, so you won’t get lost, right? LOL ^n^
creepy…aaaaaah! but where do they go in the day time?
This one is my favorite.
that’s kind of creepy because they weren’t portraits they were people watching him through the window…
that was boring but weird