Tried this story out at a campfire… twice.  It worked once.  You try. Let me know how it goes.

 

Say, you know the shortest scary story in the world, right?  “The last man in the world sat in a room.  Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.”

I love that one.  And if you tell it to kids around a campfire, and they’re not sufficiently creeped out, you can tell them that it was a woman that knocked.  The little ones are then totally grossed out.