Horror Movie Survival Rules

Shelly’s final painting was titled Self-Portrait.

Judging from the title, Everly had assumed it would simply be a portrait of Shelly himself.

It was nothing of the sort.

There wasn’t a person in the painting at all.

Instead, it depicted an old door.

Its material was impossible to identify. The grayish-white door was covered with countless tiny black specks.

Carved crudely into the center of the door were numerous twisted, bizarre runes. Everly recognized almost none of them.

Except for the largest symbol at the very center.

It was so familiar that, even now, it still appeared in her nightmares from time to time—