The Shadow in the Mirror [Korean horror story]

okay I wasn't going to post this but here's a horror story that's been living rent free in my head.

Hyeonsu was home alone. Everyone else had gone on a family trip and he got left behind to watch the house. The place was dead quiet, just that one wall clock in the living room going tick tick tick.

He was at his computer trying to work. But something felt off. Like. Eyes on the back of his neck, you know? He kept trying to ignore it but the feeling just got STRONGER. So he finally gets up, walks around the whole house.

Nothing. Just a normal quiet house.

He sits back down. And then. a small sound from the living room.

He looks over. There's this big mirror on the wall, barely glowing in the dark, and he can see his own reflection in it. He tells himself he's imagining things, looks away.

Then something moves in the mirror.

He looks back. And it's not his reflection anymore. there's something else in there. A shadow. This dark shapeless thing just... drifting around inside the mirror, moving back and forth.

He rubs his eyes. tells himself he's losing it. Opens them again.

Still there.

The shadow starts drifting closer. Hyeonsu literally cannot move. His body just. stopped working. And then the shadow reaches out a hand. Like it's trying to come through.

His heart is about to EXPLODE. He manages to try to back away but his feet won't move.

The hand comes out of the mirror.

It reaches out like black smoke and grabs him by the ankle. He tries to scream. nothing comes out. And then the shadow just. starts pulling. Slowly dragging him toward the mirror.

He fights it. useless. The thing is way too strong. He gets pulled in inch by inch and then all at once his whole body disappears into the glass.

Next morning the family comes home.

Hyeonsu is gone. The house is trashed. The living room mirror is shattered.

Police come, investigate, find absolutely nothing.

That night, one of the family members picks up a piece of the broken mirror to look at it and.

Hyeonsu is in there.

Just his face, staring back at them. terrified. And that shadow still moving around him.

They drop the piece and back away.

That same night, someone else disappears.

More mirror pieces. More faces inside them.

It doesn't stop. The shadow just keeps finding new people, one by one, until the whole family is gone. The house gets abandoned. Just an empty place full of broken mirror shards, and all the missing faces still looking out from inside them.

Years pass. Nobody goes near it. The neighborhood just... forgets it exists.

Then one day some kids wander in. Find the mirror pieces. Think it's funny to look into them.

The shadow is waiting.

The kids scream and run but it already has them by the ankles.

The house fills with screaming.

Then goes quiet again.

The shadow is still in there.

Waiting.