Chapters 12 and 13 Summary

Chapter 12 opens with a nightmare Alison is having. She dreams that she is awakened by a loud pounding on the door of her house. She makes her way downstairs in a daze, guided by a strange dull glow coming from the walls of her house. Downstairs, she realizes her parents are gone and that the knocking is on the back door rather than the front. She goes to the front door and turns the handle, but the door will not open. Her hand sticks to the handle, and she hears that the pounding, which was being done with a blunt heavy object, has stopped. She fears that the person has made it in and is coming for her. Suddenly, she hears a soft voice at the door. She asks who it is, and the voice says that she already knows, and...