**CONTENT ADVISORY** Violence (I mean, it's horror...), adult language (he really likes that "F" word), sexual references (he's pretty... excited about what he's doing...) Fair warning: This is NOT a Chantilly White romance! Knock Knock is a 9,000-word Halloween horror short story.

It's Halloween, and just about everyone's in costume. Pretending to be someone—or something—they're not. A princess. A pirate. A monster. But once in a while, the real monster is hiding behind the mask...

Professor Harvey G. Lockwood is a respected faculty member at a popular Northwest university. He's tenured. Reliable. Efficient.

To his colleagues, he's pleasant and professional. A bit pedantic, but who isn't?

His students say he's... tediously dull. Not the guy you want to chat up in the Student Union.

But Professor Lockwood has a secret.

A dark, delicious, deadly little secret.

And Halloween is the perfect night to let the monster out of the closet...

Trick-or-treat, bitches