Goodreads asked Paul H. Raymer:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Paul H. Raymer Doors. Doors are extraordinary objects. Think of the closed doors in movies you have seen. "Don't open that door!" There is a door in the space station that opens from the confined and relatively safe space of the station to the universe! Astronauts say it's like opening the door of your bathroom and finding the view from the top Mount Everest on the other side.
I live in an old house that has lots of doors (about 38 of them (I lost count)). Big doors, little doors, doors with glass in them, doors with sloped tops to fit under the eaves, a short door for the closet under the stairs, narrow doors to spaces beside the chimney. The mystery here are the two doors that don't go anywhere. I don't know why they're there. I don't know why someone thought it was necessary to put them there. If I open them, where will I be? And will I be able to get back to where I am now?
I have been in other people's houses with rooms they have never been in. These are not just wardrobes as C.S. Lewis imagined. They are rooms.
So what would be the harm in opening that door? Particularly on Halloween?

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