Goodreads asked Dale E. Lehman:

Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

Dale E. Lehman From the day the skeletal old man moved into the apartment across the hall, Roger sensed death in the air, but when that evening in the dim of the hall the shriveled fellow extended a shaking hand cupping a little black jewelry box and said, "You've never seen the like of this," he felt compelled to look. And when the man opened the box to reveal infinite blackness and swirling stardust, a cosmos in a box, Roger felt drawn into it, right to the moment when pinprick fangs sank into his arm and pulled him whole into the dark with his neighbor's hollow cackle following eternally through the void.

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