Mell Man,

MELL MAN; The First Report

I don’t know where it came from or why, but I should’ve listened to Kelly and left town. Now she’s dead, Kelly is. The Mell Man killed her, and its all my fault I could’ve saved her but I ran. Im writing this so you can know that its real—he’s real. There is no fun or games, and now I will die too. He is looking for me, it is only a matter of minutes before I face him again. I have gotten rid of anything that could even glow a reflection but that won’t stop him now.

I looked at him, that was my biggest mistake. It was in the movie theatre bathroom, Darrin said that if he said the name and the word Shev he would come.(I have changed the real call word to prevent any more terror and death resulting from my thoughtlessness.) But we could only look at him in a reflection… only from a reflection. He never told me that the Mell Man is a reflection too!!! The bathroom had mirrors along three walls, it never occurred to him that we wouldn’t know which one was the real and which were the reflections of the real reflections. It was something he had heard from a guy down in the dark end of town. There was no legend, He just was...

The walls and mirrors shook as if there was a slight tremor when Darrin said the words: "Mell Man Shev". What more terrifying words were there ever said?? The lights dimmed and I felt the hair all over stand up.. He was here… I had closed my eyes when he said it but i opened them and beheld him there in the mirror: The Mell Man. I was as stiff as if I was dead and rigor mortis had set in. My body refused to move and the greatest horror i had ever felt came to me.

His body was tall and skinny as a telephone pole dressed in ragged grey clothes that were split over the hump on his grotesque and bony back. The face was long and thin. The skin on it was greasy and peeling but that wasn’t what horrified me so terribly. The face itself was flat except for two empty dark eye sockets that looked as if they could stare through you, and the mouth was the only other feature that decorated the demoniacal face of death in a body. It was as if the face had been split from ear to ear into a large flat mouth that was set off by thousands of razor teeth along the top and bottom.

But its gaze was not towards me. Even without it having anything other than eye sockets I saw it looking towards Darrin, He was looking into a mirror across from mine. He was transfixed like a statue and i could tell he was looking at it. In my gut I knew that he had picked the wrong mirror but I had no clue what to do. I didn’t know the rules, were there any rules? I couldn’t help the scream that escaped my lips. “Darrin don’t look at him.” It was too late. I tried so hard putting all my power into moving that I broke the spell that had held me and turned to grab Darrin as it-the Mell Man grabbed at his reflection in the mirror. It never moved except in the mirror, but it had grabbed Darrins shoulders in the mirror. He screamed and clutched at his shoulder swiping at them but there was nothing there. I saw it there in the mirror. Its true self, I had done it. I had seen what now meant I would die. With a quick motion He opened his mouth so wide it seemed like he would eat the whole room and like lightning bent down and closed its teeth over Darrins head in the mirror. Its teeth snapped as they closed and swallowed Darrins head. I looked from the mirror in time to see Darrins headless body fall to the ground. I screamed in complete fear and terror. I fell down and crawled under the sink seeking anywhere that He could not see me. I put my hands over my ears to close out the unnatural shrieks it made as it searched for me in the mirror. He was still stuck in the mirror Darrin had called it into for now.

When the police found me they said I was crouched in a fetal position under the sink with my hands over my ears. The floor was covered in Darrins blood and I was repeating to myself two words over and over: "Mell Man, Mell Man, Mell Man, Mell Man, Mell Man.” They concluded I was in shock after having been witness to a serial murder and I was taken to the hospital over night to be checked for injuries and monitored.

Kelly came by as I was walking out with my Mom the next day. I couldn’t stop looking around searching for reflections, knowing that He would be there waiting for a chance to finish me. I pulled a hood over my face and put my head down to completely hide me from anything that could see me and walked away without speaking. The doctor had given me some pills to quiet me but I knew if I took them and allowed my guard down then it would come again and this time I would die.

Why had he done it, why didn’t he look in the other mirror? Why Darrin Why? I got home unseen and immediately went to my room and broke every mirror or glass that reflected my face. I felt somewhat relieved thinking I was now safe, but I was once again wrong. I jumped when my mom knocked and said Kelly was here to see me. “No, no I thought. I can’t endanger her.” I started to tell her to say I was feeling bad when the door burst open and Kelly came in. “You need someone to be here with you and Im not leaving you alone when your hurting.”

My mom closed the door and left. Kelly sat beside me her face was caring and she actually helped lift the smallest bit of the terror that gripped me. “Its ok, Shelley told me what police figured out. You don’t need to say anything. Lets leave town for a few days and go to your uncles cabin so you can recover.”

“No, I can’t leave." I said and looked up at her eyes for a second then I saw it- I saw him. Oh that I would have died before seeing the worst thing anyone ever died to see in the eyes of my girlfriend. He was there in the reflection of her eyes looking at me. I yelled and jumped up “He’s here, He’s here Kelly. We have to get away from each other or you will be cursed too.” Now that he had killed the one that had called him he was free to inhabit every reflection, and now he was after me here. Kelly stood up with a shocked look and said:”Come on stop acting so crazy.” Her gaze shifted over my shoulder and her look became one of the most complete horror. Suddenly I realized it my tv was still here. I turned and saw him there looking out of the black screen reflection and I turned and ran. Down through the hall and out the door into the yard. I ran around the house trying to escape the bright reflecting surfaces that were all over the cars and windows. I hid under a bush in the back and waited. How long I don’t know but when I finally dared venture out. I knew that I had done it. I had killed Kelly. I had left her with Him the Mell Man and now she was dead. I broke my window all out and reached in carefully tipping the tv on its face so the room was divested of any reflecting surface. I crawled in the window hole and saw the results of my cowardice. My mom had come back to see what was wrong and had seen Him too. She lay there beside Kelly on the ground looking the same as Darrin had afterwards… I know He will come for me soon. Even now I feel his presence and I am warning you, never call Him or even try...