Appendix: The Knock at the Door
by Stuart Mead
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30 BANG! Something hard hit the roof. Joey jumped. He sat down on the sofa and held on
to the book he had been reading. It was a scary story about a dead man coming back
to life and returning to his family
The lights suddenly went out. In the darkness, the wind and rain grew louder and
seemed closer.
35 Joey sat stiil, his heart beating fast. It made a 'thump, thump, thump' noise in his
Where had his mother gone? And why? It was a very bad night to be outside It was a
bad night to be reading a scary story, too. In the story, there was aiso a storm, and an
old house, and a young boy, and a ...
40 BANG! Again there was a loud noise on the roof Again Joey jumped He held the book
more tightly. The wind and the rain suddenly stopped. There wasn't a sound. Just the
dark night. Joey waited.
BRRRING! BRRRING!
The telephone!
45 Then it stopped, even before Joey had moved.
Then there was nothing. Just the darkness. The same darkness as in the story. Joey
put the book down on the sofa, then got up and walked slowly to the window. He
wanted to see if the storm really had stopped. Carefully, he opened the window and
looked out There were a few lights in the distance - other houses
50 Again: BRRRING! BRRRING!
chest
Joey ran to answer it.
55 BRRRING! BRRRING!
"Hello."
Nothing.
He put the phone down.
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Quickly he picked it up again
"Hello, Who's there?"
Nothing.
"Is that you. Mum?"
60 Nothing,
He put it down a second time He waited for it to ring again. It didn't.
He went back to the open window. Just as
he got there, a strong wind came into the
house - whoosh! - blowing books,
65 magazines and other things all over the
room. The book Joey had been reading
was open at the page where there was a
picture of the dead man who had returned
on a stormy night.
70 Joey rushed to close the window. The wind was strong! He had to work hard to stand
up. Then the rain came back. The wind blew the rain through the window. The ram was
cold - iike death - and it felt angry.
As he closed the window, he got totally wet. What would mum think? ''Get some dry
clothes," he said to himself. As he passed the telephone, it rang again.
75 BRRRINGI BRRRING!
When he put out his hand to pick it up, it stopped.
Then, with a 'click!
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the lights came back on.
"Good!" Joey thought.
Then the lights went off again,
80 The BANG! on the roof again
The BRRRING! BRRRING! again
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looked a bit crazy - or very scared.
"I told him you were alone. And I told you not to let anyone in. Oh, where is it? Where
did I put it? He can't come in yet. Not until..."
She stopped suddenly.
110 Joey looked at her, not understanding, but becoming more afraid.
"What's happening? Who is it?" he asked
Again there were three loud knocks on the door.
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
It was like the dead man in the story - trying to get into the house.
115 Joey's mother screamed, "No, no, no!"
Joey started screaming, "What? What? What?"
"Got it!" she shouted, holding up her hand with something in it.
Joey couldn't see what she was holding. The room was too dark.
"Open the door!" she shouted.
120 "No!" Joey shouted. "It's him!"
"I know it's him!" his mother replied. "We have to let him in."
"No, we don't!" Joey said.
"He has to come in," his mother said firmly.
"No, he doesn't! He has to stay outside!" Joey said.
125 He was thinking about the man in the story. He knew it was him!
"Let him in!" his mother said. "I have it now."
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"Have what?" Joey asked
"The money," she answered.
"What money?" he said.
130 "The money for the pizza," she explained.
Very slowly, Joey opened the door.
"Seafood pizza?" asked a very wet and very cold young man.
That night, Joey and his mother sat in their dark house and ate pizza for dinner. While
they were eating, someone knocked at the door
135 KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
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