Summary

In “The House of Fear” the first-person narrator was walking down the road when she met a horse. He asked her to come into a house and look at the unique floor. She did, and then he invited her to a party. She agreed, and he picked her up at nine. They joined a lot of other horses making their way to the Castle of Fear. They arrived and the mistress of the house—Fear—turned out to be some one-eyed horse-like creature, uglier than a horse, dressed in a gown of live bats sewn together. She devised an impossible game for them to all play together, and the narrator was afraid that Fear was looking straight at her as the game went on. The story...