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Goodreads asked Eric Alan Westfall:

Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

Eric Alan Westfall Sure. But it isn't mine. Isaac Asimov? From The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction many decades ago. It was called at the time, "the shortest horror story ever written": The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

And then there's "the horror story shorter by one letter than the shortest horror story ever written": The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a lock on the door.

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