The Portraits
There was a hunter in the woods, who, after a long day hunting, was in the middle of an immense forest. It was getting dark, and having lost his bearings, he decided to head in one direction until he was clear of the increasingly oppressive foliage. After a what seemed like hours, he came across a cabin in a small clearing. Realizing how dark it had grown, he decided to see if he could stay there for the night. He approached, and found the door ajar. Nobody was inside. The hunter flopped down on the single bed, deciding to explain himself to the owner in the morning. As he looked around, he was suprised to see the walls adorned by many portraits, all painted in incredible detail. Without exception, they appeared to be staring down at him, their features twisted into looks of hatred. Staring back, he grew increasingly uncomfortable. Making a concerted effort to ignore the many hateful faces, he turned to face the wall, and exhausted, he fell into a restless sleep.
Face down in an unfamiliar bed, he turned blinking in unexpected sunlight. Looking up, he discovered that the cabin had no portraits, only windows.
BUT WHO WAS UNFAMILIAR BED?
Goddamn, I hate this pasta. The idea of it freaks me out, as I’ve had to squat in old cabins a few times whilst hunting.
Hmmm… this seems… unfinished.
It left me asking “Then what?”
Short and sweet, I like it.
oooh! a good one!
Now THIS is a creepypasta! Short, sweet, and scary! Awesome!
….
i’m scared now.
Ok, that freaked me out!
After all the Pastas I’ve read, this one really surprised and scared me for the first time in weeks! Good one!
This proves you don’t need to threaten the reader with death or use long words to have a good pasta! ;3
Hee hee, I like this pasta
<3
Oh, but I do have to say that I didn’t like the way it was written. The concept was awesome but the writing was… less than optimal
Looking at widnows when it is dark out side.. Creeps me out.
brix were shat.
Hmm, I’ve read this before…
HOLY FUCKCRAPSHITCUNT.
This pasta was posted at 11:11.
Also, now I’m scared.
Posted,but creepy as f-ck nonetheless
HOLY FUCKCRAPSHITCUNT.
This pasta was posted at 11:11.
Also, now I’m scared.
It took me a second to get this one, but I liked it, though it wasn’t too scary for me.
Just want to get this right:
Instead of portraits of people, they were actual people staring at him?
Now that’s scary. o.o I don’t want to go to bed >_<
I had to read it twice to understand.
But that’s only because at the point “As he looked around, he was suprised to see the walls adorned by many portraits, all painted in incredible detail. Without exception, they appeared to be staring down at him, their features twisted into looks of hatred” I said to myself, “Oh, great, he’s going to get ‘turned into’ a painting and put on the wall…
And so the ending didn’t make sense.
When I finally re-read and understood it, *shiver* very scary. I enjoyed it!
This one’s a classic. Still love it.
missing line at the end: ‘and then he got the hell out of there and went home’ .
thats probably wat happened after.
also, tired hunter and the ugly angered dwarfs (who were staring from the outside?). i mean, there weresnt portraits, just windows, right? where’d they go? they could have just kicked him out.
meh, w/e. <3
Ooh, short, sweet, and startling. Just the last few sentences get right at your bones and make you tremble. Very nice.
This is one hella good pasta! short but straight to the point, really creeped me out.
OK, this was a bit weird. I mean, the concept is great, but it seems that there could have been a bit more threat at the end. Even a single sentence, something indicating that those people didn’t just disappear.
Sure it’s creepy when you think about it a bit more, but it seems to lack the immediate sense of scare that other pastas have.
HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP.
brix were shat multiple times
AAAAAHHHHH!!!! Oh geez! I’ll be closing the blinds tonight! This one hit right where it hurts. I approve
oldskool one )
This ones already on here but its great anyway! Love the ending.
I don’t understand this pasta, someone care to elaborate?
Reminds me of the pasta where the man looks in a haunted hotel room and sees only red, and finds out that the person that was murdered had red eyes. That one was creepier though.
I’M ALL TINGLY.
Awesome pasta is awesome.
@ MisterVercetti
“Then what?” – that’s the point
2 minutes later “Oh, no portraits… only… windows…” Very well done!
hey that was pretty good. I miss these short seemingly innocuous pastas that manage to give you chills in the last couple of sentences. we need more like this
:noms entire pasta:
I loved this, even though I will admit that I read the last part once, twice, three times…
*CLICK* OOOOOOH…..
Very creepy to me, I go hunting with my dad, uncle, and grandpa a lot and we stay in little separate cabins in a clearing every time we go. Mine has the most windows.
AAAAAUGH.
This is one of only two pastas I’ve read on this site that have genuinely creeped me out. Well done!
it’s about time this one was posted, I’m surprised it hasn’t been already. one of my favorites. >:)
…Ugh.
I’m not sleeping in a cabin ever now.
FFFFFFFFUUUUUCCCCKKKK. i usually am not impressed with the pasta posted on here, but this literally gave me chills and creeped me RIGHT the fuck out.
good job whoever wrote this.
*shivers*
Very nice.
THANK YOU PHONE
THANK YOU FOR FINDING PASTA THAT’S NOT LONGWINDED
THANK YOU FOR FINDING PASTA THAT’S ACTUALLY CHILL-WORTHY
THANK YOU FOR FINDING PASTA THAT IS UNEXPECTED.
I’ve not shat brix for many a moon.
I shat enough to build a small house tonight.
Aww cows bawls. I had to close my blinds. Good pasta
Maybe the pictures weren’t actually staring at him with hatred.. Maybe they were just trying to tell him to not be an idiot too and get out of there… Maybe that bed was actually the “painter’s” and that it wouldn’t be a good idea to stay there…
It’s kinda vague and the curiosity it brings kinda overlaps with the creepy feeling that’s probably supposed to come.
At first it kinda reminded me of Vasilisa, for some reason.
that was pretty scary, actually.
Very niiiiice.. Cept shoulda been more details about the ‘portraits’ dont ya think?
I like short pastas/
Very niiiiice.. Cept shoulda been more details about the ‘portraits’ dont ya think?
I like short pastas/
and if it was so dark he wouldnt have been able to see the faces. ?
It’s been too long!
This was great.
holy shit. This pasta is scary is hell! I give <3 to the author for writting it, and <3 to WWP for posting it.
This wasn’t at all scary
He finds out afterward that they aren’t portraits when they are gone and he is completely unscathed. Where is the creepy part? So they were actually people, but wait it doesn’t matter because they didn’t do anything!
Very good. I applaud you sir.
I SHAT THE GREAT WALL
Looks of hatred? “Well I’ll be damned if we won’t give you looks of hatred. You’re sleeping in our goddamn bed mister!”
that took a few minutes to settle in, and when it did.. brix were shat.
This is simple and creepy. I love that it’s actually believable. Things that could actually happen scare me more than things I know would most likely never happen. The fact that they did nothing is really eerie, too. I just want to know how long they stayed there watching him. :p
Also, I too was expecting him to get turned into a portrait, so I was expecting to be disappointed. I was proved wrong. :]
I OH MY GOD’ed.
HOOOOOOLY SHIT I JUST GOT IT!
I was about to post “Are you insane, this one didn’t make any sense” but then I re-read it. Awesome.
This one REALLY sent shivers down my spine.
what happens next?
It was one of those practical joke gameshow things
Read this somewhere else a while ago, so the ending didn’t shock me. But the first time I read it, I shat an insanely huge ammount of big brix…
Thank you for posting!
…………….. wait for it…… wait for it……… BUT WHO WAS WINDOWS?
The idea was there and the concept solid. Unfortunately, the ending seemed a little rushed and it could have ended in a better way. I felt like the author was too worried about length and not worried enough about endig it better… It was kinda creepy though…
HOLY SHIZIT!!!!!!!!!
It took me a while to get this, then I realized that the “Portraits” were real people looking into the windows! Im boarding up my windows tonight.
Well I’m never looking out a window again. *shudder*
Somebody’s been sleeping in my bed. Saw the bastard too. Just turned away and ignored me!
Brix were shat, tears of fear were shed, and windows were covered.
I would say “I’m not going to sleep tonight”, but I haven’t yet.
It’s already tomorrow.
Love, love, love it. Reminds me of all the old scary stories me and my friends used to tell each other in High School.
Nostalgia.
I like this one a lot
it scares me because instead of a small window in my room i have a window that is almost my whole wall and it can open like a door…..*Shiver*
Yeah… same question as everyone else. Who was windows?
Pretty good, but the ending wasn’t really that much of a twist. So people are watching him sleep. And they aren’t happy! So what?
oooohman that would be such an awesome prank!! lol hang scary portraits in front of the windows and take them out while he sleeps XD
How did the windows look like portraits?
Otherwise superior.
I hate reading into these things, it ruins the whole pasta for me lol But the only thing I don’t get is that he walked up to the cabin in the woods right? So why didn’t he see the people at the windows? Did they just poof out of nowhere and appear at the windows when he went inside?
Anyway, good pasta, was expecting the “turned into portrait” end too, with a delightful surprise.
It doesn’t mean there were REAL people at the windows. Apparitions, anyone?
Quite nice, could have been better though. I made me laugh for the poor fellow. I gave it an 8/10
was dere sm1 in the window who seemed like a portrait.
loved this one
Just imagine being watched ny so many people.
This is one of the few pastas that have caused me to shit brix.
Although, the beginning was a bit repetative. “There was a hunter in the woods, who, after a long day hunting, was in the middle of an immense forest.” … Yeahhhh. lol
if the beginning was fixed, this pasta would be one of the best I’ve read.
Witty. At first I didn’t understand this one, but now I do.
I like it.
From hence forth all cabins will have no windows. XD
very original! I delight in manifestations of skill.
It would’ve been scarier with pikaman
that was really good pasta! best than most have been in a while.
I didn’t shit a brick house, oh no.
I shat London.
didn’t see THAT coming.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*brix*
Omg
I love the idea, but this just doesn’t work. You don’t mistake windows with a crowd of people looking in for portraits…or did the cabin have a ton of little windows? That’s weird too…
I had a feeling the end would freak me out, and so it did.
Great short pasta.
whoa. scary.
and wouldn’t he have noticed the many windows while walking up to the cabin? unless it was dark inside…
It’s a good thing the turning into a portrait thing was a red herring. made you shit twice the brix.
also, at first not realizing it, and then it hitting you like a freight trainmakes you shit QUINTUPLE the brix.
also, THEN WHO WAS PAINTINGS?
BUT WHO WAS FACES?!?
Srsly, this freaked me out.
oh my GOD
loved it, mostly for how much of it was left for the reader to fill in
also as someone who is very interested in archeology finding such an isolated, abandoned cabin would be my wet dream
Oh, darn. This took me awhile to realize that those “portraits” were actually people.
Did the cabin belong to them, or?….
That chilled me
“This proves you don’t need to threaten the reader with death or use long words to have a good pasta! ;3″
Fact.
The Hoover Dam.
I just shat it.
ho…ly … crap!!! eeeeeeeewww stalkers.
Sweet jesus that was spooky D: I poop’d a little.
<3
My only response : Eh?
I get it and all its just.. eh? its not that good at all.
GOD DAMN PEOPLE STARIN INTO THE FUCKING WINDOWS AND SCARING ME.
HOLY SHIT THIS PASTA WAS CREEPY.
DDDDDD:
I’M SO GLAD IT’S 8AM HERE.
holy crap makes me even more afraid of windows at night…
Good concept, I like it.
Amazing number of retards that don’t get it. I got this the first time.
Also, it doesn’t need death and dismemberment to be creepy. The idea of strangers watching me sleep is creepy enough without a tacked-on retribution. Who says they don’t do anything after he leaves?
Wow, I felt my face fall from a smirk to a sickly sort of look of realization when it struck me on how scary this was.
Nice job, accomplishing that in such a short story. I’m scared now. ^^;
;_;
I pooped.
Great concept, good execution.
A rare combo.
Awesometastic. I was totally expecting the ending to be something cliche, like the guy disappears and someone else finds his painting in the cabin, but nope! I was pleasantly surprised.
I kinda wanted to pee when I read this…
Truly creepy. ♥
ooff. love it
AND THEN THE HUNTER WAS A ZOMBIE.
…
Fuck me, I just shat the God of All Bricks.
Good thing my windows are already covered.
this was definitely creepy, i read it i thought the pictures were alive or something corny
as i read the last line i had a shiver run down my spine
5 stars, great job
But who was ANGRY MOB?
BUT ANYWAY, Brix were shat, and that is a damn rare occurence. Dx
I’ve always loved the concept of the unknown thing peering into through windows from darkened places.
When I cannot sleep, which is often, I dress up in black and go out stalking through the areas surrounding my neighborhood, watching people when and where I can. Oftentimes, you just get to watch people doing people things… but my very favorite is when they look out the window because the back of their neck tingled. Peering around for you, for… something.
They always pull the blinds or close the drapes after that.
Makes me wonder if some people are truly more psychically aware than others.
BUT WHO WAS WINDOW??
Hah! Sweet, some truly delicious pasta here
I am 55 years old, I am married to a wife and have two kids. This did not make sense to me. If he went inside the building at night, he should have noticed the faces looking at him through the windows.
Actually, this story was brilliant. Good job.
Phew, I was scared but summoned up enough courage to look at my portraits in the window. Wait, I don’t have any portra-
Moral of this story: Don’t sleep in other people’s houses without their permission.
I would never go in that forest again. Ugh i wonder who they were.
Compressed Lovecraft?
LOLOLOLOL NAWT SCARY KAY?
GTFO my cabin, asshole!
OMG… That freaked me out… I don’t even know why I’m reading these… I have too weak a heart for this… Now I’m gonna be scared for days…
holy shit that was creepy
that was an amazing pasta.short yet i got those marvolous shivers at the end.truly a genius pasta.best i have heard in a while. whoever wrote this pasta i give you props.
EXACTLY WHAT I WANT TO KNOW:BUT WHO WAS UNFAMILIAR BED?
to the people who don’t understand, the ‘portraits’ he saw were actually reflections of his own face, because when you look at a window when it’s pitch dark outside, all you can see is your reflection. he realized they were windows in the morning because there was sunlight coming through them.
no i thought that the ‘portraits’ he saw were actually real people staring in at him.
NOM NOM NOM. holy shit one of the best pastas ive tasted in ages. at first i was like meh, mounted human trophies, but somehow the windows are infinitely more creepy. BRAVO.
FUCKING. LOVED. IT.
I was thinking “OK, he has one sentence left. Where is he going with this?”
8c[
Holy shit. D:>
The idea is he was being watched. they were not portraits but windows with people staring in.
Outstanding.
Fear the Darkness
-Nex
Sienna: And he hates himself.
But seriously, that’s one of the creepiest pastas on here. I always thought of the faces as hideous non-human faces, kind of the style of a face you would find on a totem pole.
Now, it’s probably the fact that I’m listening to Madness Combat music, but I can’t take it seriously if it’s just normal people, cause I keep imagining a whole bunch of 1337 agents staring in.
(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090128000347/madnesscombat/images/3/36/133t_Crew.jpg)
Stop licking me, people!
‘only windows’ is what makes this, so much dread in those last two words. Really well constructed.
Ooohhh that is creepy!
The amount of people who don’t ‘get it’ surprises me.
The portraits of people staring down at him in hatred weren’t portraits, they were people looking through windows at him.
The people who said ‘it needs more’ obviously don’t understand basic concepts.
Excellent pasta. Ordered before and will order again.
Who said the faces in the portraits were alive? It could have been ghosts. Good stories are ruined when you look into them too much. Just enjoy them for what they are.
This is why I hate paintings with people that stare at you. gives me the creeps.
10/10!!
but didn’t he see the people when he was going into the cabin?
This was yummy.
very nice story freaked me and my friend out alot. if there was windows where there where portraits….strange. Me and my friend wouldn’t walk into a deserted cabin.for that matter wouldn’t go exploring
“Ok, let’s read this story… Hmm… Alright, he will be turned into one… Wait, what? He survived? Odd…” *Five minutes later* “…Wait… OH SHI-”
Creepiest part? He wasn’t on a bed the night before. THEY CAME IN AND FUCKING MOVED HIM AND MAYBE FONDLED HIM AND RAPED HIM AND FFFFFFFFFFFFFF-
Excuse me, but a construction crew needs me and the millions of bri/x/ I just shat
ooohh spooky
My friend told me about this by word of mouth. It took me a while to get it. I was all “._. HURP DERP DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Oh wait I get it.”
I have, like, 5 windows in my room. Soooo, yeah, I’m fucked.
Oh, those darn small-town folk, always wanting to know exactly what’s going on inside. Well, that’s life in the fishbowl for you.
Very very unique concept
I don\\\’t understand it at all!
It was me, I like to organize hunter window hate-glares w/ my veggie+vegan pals.
Sorry. Personally I like the idea of an animal living life as an animal until it’s killed quickly, rather than raised on a farm pumped full of chems for years. But doing it to farmers who live in the same place all year gets you stalking charges instead of uneasy sleepers. Again, sorry.
yeahh.. idk
i dont like this one so much
probably simply because when i was picturing the portraits, i pictured really silly old farmer people with ridiculously dumb angry looks on their faces
not scary, sorta funnyy
i wonder what the hunter did though, after he woke up and realized that
WOW O_O<—My face when I read this. I really love this one. It creeped me out and it actually sents chills down my spine