Episode notes
A hotel night clerk writes a lie to get out of the last two hours of his shift. By morning, the lie has come true, and something knew about it before he did.
In this original horror story, a twenty-six-year-old front desk clerk works the graveyard shift at a high desert hotel, where nobody checks in after midnight and the only company is Marcus, the quiet security guard. One slow night he sneaks out early and leaves his manager a made-up excuse: his brother stranded on a lonely highway past the old fairgrounds. It was supposed to be harmless. Then his phone rings.
A slow-burn, unsettling tale of night shift horror, a creepy phone call, and a lonely road where something is waiting. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you.
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All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.