Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: tingling of spine in states of extreme fear is due to growth of creature called, Fact2: host is afraid crushing person 's spine if curled up long enough, Fact3: Movie theater owner is acquaintance of Chapin, Fact4: Chapin controls situation by shutting off lights and telling everyone in theater to scream, Fact5: only way to neutralize tingler is to reinsert it inside Martha 's body
Output (English): A pathologist, Dr. Warren Chapin Price, discovers that the tingling of the spine in states of extreme fear is due to the growth of a creature that every human being seems to have, called a tingler, a parasite attached to the human spine. It curls up, feeds and grows stronger when its host is afraid, effectively crushing the persons spine if curled up long enough. The host can weaken the creature and stop its curling by screaming. Movie theater owner Oliver Higgins Coolidge, who shows exclusively silent films, is an acquaintance of Dr. Chapin. Higginss wife Martha Evelyn, who is deaf and mute, dies of fright after weird, apparently supernatural events have occurred in her room. During her autopsy, Chapin removes a tingler from her spine. After they contain the tingler and return to Higgins house, it is revealed that Higgins is the murderer; he frightened his wife to death knowing that she could not scream because she was mute. The centipedelike creature eventually breaks free from the container that held it and is released into Higgins theater. The tingler latches onto a womans leg, and she screams until it releases its grip. Chapin controls the situation by shutting off the lights and telling everyone in the theater to scream. When the tingler has left the showing room, they resume the movie and go to the projection room, where they find the tingler and capture it. Guessing that the only way to neutralize the tingler is to reinsert it inside Marthas body, Chapin does so. After he leaves, Higgins, who has admitted his guilt to Chapin, is alone in the room. As if by supernatural forces, the door slams shut and locks itself and the window closes, echoing what happened just before Martha was frightened to death. The tingler causes the body of Martha to rise from the bed, staring at her husband. Higgins is so terrified that he is unable to scream. The screen fades, and Dr. Chapins voice says, Ladies and gentlemen, just a word of warning. If any of you are not convinced that you have a tingler of your own, the next time you are frightened in the dark... dont scream. In a similar manner as Universals Frankenstein 1931, Castle opened the film with an onscreen warning to the audience: