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The Library



Estimated reading time — 3 minutes

As I crossed the threshold of the library, I noticed that all sounds of the street stopped. I shrugged it off as being well soundproofed. I slowly weaved my way through the aisles, finding nothing that drew my attention. As I drew deeper into the depths of the building in, the lights grew dimmer until eventually, the onl light came from candles in brackets along the wall. The books grew darker too, though not in the same sense. They grew… more arcane. Scared, I turned around to leave. I walked briskly back the way I came, but the overhead lights never returned. I retraced my steps, and took different turns all to no avail.

Was that…. movement? My gaze tracked to the end of the aisle I was in and saw a shape moving slowly away from me. I chased after it, calling out. As I got closer, the shape sharpened into that of a man. I asked him breathlessly how to get out of the library. He didnt move. Then, out of nowhere, he whipped his head around. I only caught a glimpse of his face before I threw my arms up to protect my own, and he bit me. Caught my arm good. Down I went, and scrambled away from him. I managed to find my footing, and ran like hell.

My lungs felt like they were about to burst when I finally stopped. I had no idea where I was. I was scared, and exhausted. Before I knew what I was doing, I laid down and went to sleep.

I would love to give you a time when I awoke, but I don’t know for sure. I had lost all sense of time. I dragged my aching body to my feet and stumbled down the hallway. I noticed it getting brighter, the books more lighthearted. I looked up, and saw an ancient lightbulb. I started to run down the hall, glancing upwards as I ran. The lights grew brighter until I caught glimpse of the doors. I ran towards them, freedom so close I could taste it. As I stepped up to the doors, they stayed still. They didnt open. I reached my fingers into the crack in the doors and tried to pry them open. They wouldn’t budge. Locked? I thought. But that idea was shattered as an older man walked to the doors and they slid open for him. He threw me a glance, and I thought I recognized his face. As he tipped his hat to me and walked out into the world it hit me. That man in the aisle. He was leaving. I walked to the open doors behind him and tried to walk out. As I strode towards the open doors, I hit something. It was like walking into a wall, but all that was in front of me was air.

I hurried to the librarian to ask for help. No matter how loudly I asked, she ignored me. She glanced up once, but it was like she was looking past me… Through me. I tried to shove a pile of books over to get her attention, but I couldnt move them. Se calmly reached over, and picked the top book off the pile. I had to figure out what was going on. She stood up and began to walk away, and I grabbed her arm, pulled her back. Her arm didn’t move, but she sort of seemed to be looking for something, and followed where I led. I led her to a table,, and let her go. She looked at the table, and under it, but seemed to decide she didn’t find what she was looking for, and went back along her way.

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So thats my story. I’m still here today. We haven’t been busy. But you never know. You may come in sometime, looking for a book. I may take your hand and lead you deeper and deeper into the library. You may catch a glimpse of me and ask for help out. I may just get my freedom, at the cost of yours.

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I’m waiting for you.


Credited to TheCoffinDancer.

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95 thoughts on “The Library”

  1. ThisIsANameForAComment

    If I got stuck in a library in such a way that I was not going to die from starvation and such, I’m not so sure I would want out for a VERY long time.

  2. Aw hell…I love the library. Now you’re saying that if I go there some serial rapist ghost is gonna attack me?
    Still, good pasta. 7/10.

  3. That’s pathetic. If you’re lost in a creepy library that seems bigger than it should be and mysterious figures are walking around, knock over the bookshelves. You won’t be lost for very long after that.

  4. i hug strangers :)

    why people don’t like this story i dont know, i think it was a great story, apparently there were a few spelling errors, i hadn’t noticed any, because i was to busy hating my minds eye for making such detailed images, but trust me I’ve read worst, but who cares about my opinion anyway.
    i’m just someone who hugs strangers….

  5. Every writer gets criticism. But, even though I respect Snowden, I think he could choose a better criticism than ‘gay’. Also, silence in the library.

    Fear the Darkness

    -Nex

  6. Concept was good.
    Too much running and then… SLEEPING!?
    When something is supposed to be shat scary, i hate it when stories ruin it by going to sleep. It makes me sad.

  7. 1: YOU CAUGHT THE GHOST AIDS

    2: this is kinda dumb

    3: there used to be a library a few miles form my house build in the 1900’s, but recently they tore it down and build a new-age (crappy) one D:

  8. oh well if your waiting for me to come then i’ll come. sure you can try to bite you but i might just bite you back buddy

  9. Hah! Wait for me they can, but I’m the one with the last laugh. I don’t go to libraries! Hell, I can’t even read!

  10. I’ve always had a slight fear of libraries.This was a good pasta! I fdon’t get why people are saying it’s not. I’d like to see them write one better.

  11. TheCoffinDancer, this was a good idea. It could stand to be proofread some more, but it was well-written overall.

    I’ll have to agree with Comment Leaver in that you’re just being an ass, Snowden. CoffinDancer had the guts to subject his writing to the criticism of everyone on this site, which seems to be more than you’re willing to do. In addition, calling something “gay” does not make you seem tough or cool. It does not make people respect your ideas. It simply highlights how maladjusted and socially intolerant you are. It is my sincere hope that you’ll grow up one day and realize that expounding vulgarities does not cause people to respect you or take you seriously.

  12. Libraries are fucking scary man I don’t care what anyone says.

    All those books, and all those WORDS I mean fuck, who’s expected to read all those words?

    The only section I can find any peace of mind in is the science and math section because most of the books are filled with diagrams and formulas and shit. Plus science kicks ass.

    Anyway, this pasta reminds me of this little weird short guy I know who tends to come out of shadows. HEY maybe I should write a pasta about him…

    If I did, would anyone read it?

  13. Could use a different setting. In this digital age, I haven’t stepped foot in a library in a good decade and a half. Scare factor is a bit diminished when you won’t ever step foot in the place of the event.

  14. Rubbish story, in my humble opinion. Extremely vague (to the extent that it’s poor), the writing is bad, and the fact I wasn’t scared didn’t really help…

  15. @57 Well dear, I’m sure we all really appreciate your opinion. However, we are still waiting on that pasta you’re going to write for us. How long do you think it’ll take-a day for such an amazing literary mind such as yourself?

  16. @56
    It is impossible to leave any kind of feedback with the given criteria because there is no way to reformat CoffinDancer’s idea. It sucks. Posting it online only cemented his e-gayness. And as far as rewriting it goes, I believe I’ve already been quite thorough on the fact that there is no reviving this pasta. Crap pasta is crap.

  17. @46 If you want to be constructive then go for it. Calling something ‘gay’ multiple times is just a sad attempt at showing your strength in an internet forum. If it gets you more love in real life, go for it. If not, then I’d find smarter ways to respond. Try something along the lines of, ‘wow I really thought you had a good base idea, try changing ____’ or even ‘this idea isn’t that great, maybe you should start over with a new idea.’ Even if it is a repost of a repost, calling something ‘gay’ is just plain ignorant.
    Maybe you can try writing something so the rest of us unworthy children can learn from your magnificence?

  18. Holy fuck that was one of the most shittly written creepypastas I have ever had the misfortune to lay my eyes upon. I mean, no emotion, super-abrupt in everything, no tension whatsoever, not one bit creepy. The concept was alright though, I’ll give it that.

    Oh, yeah, right. I also suck cocks.

  19. interesting pasta. This is the only website where I can find scary stories that aren’t completely freaking RETARDED.

    I’m sick of stories having to do with babysitters and couples moving into “supposedly haunted houses.” Those aren’t even remotely interesting cuz they make it extremely obvious of what’s gonna happen…

  20. @46
    I can take criticism no problem, but all I have seen from you is putting writing down. Lets see a sample of your stuff. Its a simple request. Lets see what you consider good.

  21. To OP, you’re not a great writer (yet) and practicing by writing things such as this are fine. Just don’t submit them/make a lot of other people read them. Please. I mean, you had to know this sucked. Post it on /b/ and get flamed until you improve, just like everyone else.

  22. @27
    It’s not difficult to get something posted on this site on the homepage because EVERYTHING that gets posted is on the homepage until it is covered up by other posts. Thank you, though, for your wonderfully colorful display of how well you took the criticism, though. I always enjoy it when people can take compliments with flying colors, but cannot tolerate anything from the other end of the spectrum. I’d bet money that if everyone had responded as I had, you wouldn’t be as smug as you are now.

  23. shortys roc my sox

    this needs to explain more details about how he is locked in the librrary it sounds like he knew what he was talking about in his head but didn’t do such a good job at descriibing it in the actual story

  24. When I bring about the End of Days, I’m starting with you. Fuck, that was terrible, and this is coming from the guy who wrote the book on Things Man Was Not Meant To Know.

  25. Hello.

    While not violating members of your immediate family in every orifice, I can often be found at my local library, perusing a bank of thesauri to assist me in my malapropism-filled doomsday rants. However, my latest trip was not the dry academic exercise one might expect. As I searched the silent stacks, I spied a stunningly scrumptious siren sitting studiously at the reference desk. All thoughts of boring, banal book-browsing left my mind as our eyes met and the beautiful bookish babe’s bodacious bosom bobbed bouncily with her sudden indrawn breath. My truculent trouser torpedo tore a tumultuous trail of terror to her twitching, titillatingly tender twat, upending bookshelves and sending horrified patrons fleeing for their lives. As my unctuous undulating underwear usurper lurched lasciviously through her lusciously lusty librarian labia, lubricating her lovebox with a furious, foaming flood of frothy fuck-fluid at the critical crest of our criminally cocktastic copulatory crescendo, her cries of unimaginable pleasure were more powerful than any librarian’s “shush”.

  26. I didn’t like that at all sorry…
    The first paragraph tried to use cool words and there were too many adjectives [or that’s just me].

    This is the worst one i’ve read in a while…it was a bit cliche and like Notes [i really loved notes] it was a ‘take my place in this hell’ kind of thing…but Notes was way better than this…just my opinion. i don’t get how anyone thought it was interesting. =/

  27. As I drew deeper into the depths of the building in, the lights grew dimmer until eventually, the onl light came from candles in brackets along the wall.

    Excuse me sir but last time I checked, ‘only’ was spelt with a ‘y’. Good day.

  28. A bit boring at the begining, but it got alot better as it neared the end. Could use a once over with spell check, and “I’m waiting for you” is a bit bland IMO, but still worth a read.

  29. This was okay, I feel as though there are too many of these pastas though. The entire “trapped for all eternity” thing is getting a little old

  30. Hey Snowden, since it seems you have nothing better to do than tell everyone how horrible their writing is, why don’t you go ahead and write something, AND get it posted on the homepage, hmm? Put your money where your mouth is.

  31. Yeah. Read this in the forums. The final sentence hit me like a sledgehammer after I thought about it 0_o I’m never going to libraries any more.

  32. Fail of truly epic proportions, however unlike most people I would like to offer some constructive criticism. TRY NOT SUCKING!!!

  33. Was okay. I like the concept of being able to influence without physical manipulation like he did at the end, but the story itself was a little bland.

    “I’m waiting for you,” is certainly a bad way to end a story though, very cliche. It’s almost as bad as ending it with the words “THE END.”

  34. With the first couple of paragraphs, I wasn’t very impressed. However, when it went on, it definitely improved. The last parts were pretty intriguing.

  35. nothing personal but im getting tired of all these stories ending with im waiting for you its a good way to end a story but serious its worn out

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