Nightbooks

After Alex Mosher’s family goes to sleep, he sneaks out of their apartment. He doesn’t want to be a “Weirdo” or “Loser” anymore, so he makes his way down the hallway to the elevator and presses “B” for the basement. He wants to burn his notebooks in the basement’s furnace.

When the elevator stops at the 4th floor, however, he can hear one of his favorite movies, Night of the Living Dead, playing in apartment 4E. Alex grows desperate to watch it, no longer thinking clearly. He knocks on the door, and a woman opens it immediately. He tells her about the movie, and she invites him in. She is surprised, claiming it is usually food that brings children to her door.

Suddenly scared, Alex is about to walk away when he smells pumpkin pie. Later, he learns that he was under a powerful spell. As soon as the door clicks shut behind him, the television and pie disappear. The woman says the apartment did what it could to get Alex inside. He struggles to focus but notices that the front door is gone. Just before he collapses, the woman tells him she’s a witch.