THING

Hello Children come in to my CASTLE again.  I have a dark-tale that'll make you all just LIGHT UP WITH FRIGHT Hee-Hee-Hee!  I call it...
"Ah, y'all have come to see me about Thing haven't y'all?" a man asked another man in Memphis, Tennessee, at a bus station back in 1972.  "Yes sir.  The man who runs the daycare across the street" the other man replied.  "Well, sir, this daycare operator is rather slippery.  No one has seen his face.  That is why he is called 'Thing' and his quarters are dark!" the man explained.  The men sat on a bench, together.  The man giving the information lit a cigarette and smoked.  "That's about all I know sir.  Care for a cigarette?" he asked the other man.  "Sure thanks" he replied, took one and lit it.  "Have a good evening" the man who gave the cigarette said.  "Thanks you too sir" the other man replied and left the bus station.  
The man smoked outside, in the night, as he opened his umbrella and walked in the rain.  He stopped on the sidewalk and looked across the street at "Walter's Daycare".  He approached it, knocking on one of the double-doors of the place.  The door opened and the man walked inside.  "Hello, this is Sargent Edmund, Police!  I have come to do a check on your daycare sir" the man called out.  He continued to smoke and closed his umbrella, as he walked through the darkened-playroom.  Sargent Edmund reached a door on the other side of the daycare.  "Good evenin' Walter, are y'all in there sir?" he called out.  "Good evenin' Sargent.  Yes, please come in" an old man's voice replied from beyond the door.  
Sargent Edmund opened the door, walking into more blackness.  "Howdy, Walter sir, might I ask why y'all are sittin' in the dark for?" Sargent Edmund asked.  A silhouette sat in the darkness of the room, only visible by the lights outside the window.  "Good evenin' Sargent sir.  I sit here in the dark, so folks don't see m'face!" the shadowy-figure of Walter answered.  "Y'all see Sargent Edmund, I am known as 'Thing' and am rather inhuman!" the silhouette of Walter explained.  Walter turned on a lamp, illuminating his horrifying-features behind his desk to Sargent Edmund. 
Walter's eyes were pitch-black, with tiny, glowing-white pupils in them.  He wore a black suit and tie, with gray hair.  As he poured himself a glass of Cherry-Flavored Brandy from a bottle and drank, Sargent Edmund saw his gleaming-fangs of silver and noticed his razor-like claws.  "The children are doing quite well, but since I'm a 'Thing', they never ever see me" the monster spoke, growling deeply.  
Well, it looks like the monster really had to turn the FRIGHT ON eh, Kiddies?  Walter was being IN THE DARK ABOUT IT all the SLIME Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!  Until next ISSUE, play a game of HIDE AND SHRIEK!  Heh-Heh!