Patreon Post: The Thing at the Door (1974) by Henry Slesar

Today I am reviewing Henry Slesar’s The Thing at the Door, the title my Patreon supporters voted for a couple of months ago. [I shall be setting up another poll soon, so keep your eyes peeled for that.] One of the reasons Slesar’s story was selected was due to its ambiguous and mysterious blurb: ‘If the root of all neuroses is in childhood --so is the root of Terror. When Gail Gunnerson was six years old, a Thing came to her bedroom door. It was so horrifying a sight, so dreadful in its implications, that the slender threads of reality were snapped.’ It really doesn’t tell you much, and it is a synopsis which could go in any direction.