The History House.
With cool stone floors and dim walls and billowing ship-shaped shadows. Plump, translucent lizards lived behind old pictures, and waxy, crumbling ancestors with tough toe-nails and breath that smelled of yellow maps gossiped in sibilant, papery whispers.
Answer choices for the above question
A. Young children often broke into the house and were never seen again.
B. A scaly snake slithers down the stone hallways, scavenging for mouse skeletons.
C. Wind funneled through cracked window panes, stirring the dead air in the house.
D. Teachers took their students every year to visit the library in the grand old house.