Some nightmares never let go.​​

A horrifying dream jolts Joey awake during his first night with Jess. When she presses him to explain what frightened him so badly, Joey reluctantly takes her back to his ninth birthday in the Bronx—and the most beautiful thing he'd ever owned: a brand-new black Royce Union English Racer, complete with a gleaming, rotating bicycle bell.

There was only one problem. To keep his prized bicycle safe, Joey had to leave it in the one place he feared more than anything else: the dark, dank bicycle room in the basement of his apartment building. Getting there meant passing garbage, cockroaches, shadowy rooms and a dimly lit hallway filled with sounds a nine-year-old imagination could turn into monsters. 

Then, late one night, Joey looked from his fifth-floor window and saw something moving through the darkness below—a black, faceless shape climbing walls and fences before disappearing into his building's basement.

The following morning, Joey discovered his bicycle exactly where he'd left it.

But the bell was gone.

And somewhere behind him in the darkness...

BRRING-BRRING!
BRRING-BRRING!
BRRING-BRRING!

THE BICYCLE BELL is a darkly funny supernatural one-act about childhood fear, memory and the nightmares we carry into adulthood. What begins as an intimate conversation between two new lovers becomes a chilling trip into the past—and raises one terrifying question:

What if the only way to escape your nightmare is to give it to someone else?

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1F; 2M. Approximately 20 minutes.

 

Part of the WELCOME TO THE FUNHOUSE Collection of Horror Tales.