Answer and Explanation:
'"The Night the Ghost Got In" is a short story by author James Thurber.
The narrator is a boy who, one night, hears the footsteps of a ghost walking around the dining table downstairs. Besides him, his brother, mother, and grandfather are in the house.
How do the boys respond to the potential ghost in the house?
The narrator does not seem scared at first. Even when he realizes it is not someone from his family walking around, he is not too afraid. He is, however, fearful enough to wake his brother up. When the two of them hear the ghost climbing the stairs and approaching them, they do get scared. The narrator closes the door on top of the stairs while his brother runs away and shuts himself in his room. Soon, the narrator opens the door again, but finds nothing there.
