The Night Prowler

Ha-Ha.  There you all are, Children.  Come join me in my CASTLE, for more FUN AND FEAR!  I was just watering my GHOULISH GARDEN OF DERANGE-IUMS and my personal favorite, CROAKUSES Hee-Hee-Hee-Hee.  Why, they're locally GROAN you know!  But here's this evening's SHRIEKING-SHRUBBERY.  
A man slept on his couch in his cabin up, in the southeastern-forest of Canada, one night in 1958.  He stirred and awoke, yawning, getting up and looking outside his front window by the door.  The window was half-open, and the man could hear the sounds of crickets in the night.  He found muddy tracks of paws leading from his door, to his kitchen.  They ended under his counter.  The man looked around, then pulled a bottle of gin out of his icebox, drinking some of it.  "Some animal got into my cabin last night, Frank" the man told another man the next day, wlking through the woods with him.  "Was it a raccoon Sam?" Frnk sked him.  "No, no the paw-prints were larger" Sam answered.  "Sounds like it could be a baby bear cub then" Frank added.  "I don't think so my Friend!" Sam said.  "I will keep my shotgun on hand this evening, in case the huge animal returns and attacks me" Sam continued, as they went up the path.  
Later on that day, Sam returned home and turned on the radio to Buddy Holly singing, "Everyday!".  He noticed huge claw-marks going across his front room-wall.  "What in the world?" he said to himself, examining them.  That evening, Sam held a shotgun, as he sat on his sofa.  As the grandfather-clock ticked away in the corner, Sam shifted his eyes from window to window.  
He suddenly screamed out, dropping his weapon.  Sam fell to his knees, screaming some more.  Awhile later, a scaly, orange creature, with yellow, fly-like eyes, pointed-ears, and claws on its paws, scurried through the woods on all fours to Sam's cabin.  The monster got in through the cabin-door being partially-open and clawed at the kitchen-table, leaving huge claw-marks in it.  The thing finally stood up, roared deeply, with sharpedned-fangs, looking around.  Just then, the monster transformed as it roared, into Sam.  He stood at the kitchen-counter panting hard.  "I AM THE THING AFTER ALL!!!!" Sam exclaimed, loudly.  
Well, that was quite a surprise shocker eh, kiddies?  At BEAST Sam was safe, even if he didn't PAWS to think about what was prowling around his cabin ha-ha.