You can always tell the characters who've never read a horror story. Wayne, the protagonist of this horror novelette, is one of them. He makes a bargain with a witch and doesn't hold up his end of the deal, and so things go very badly wrong for poor old Wayne. (If he'd ever read a horror story, he'd know this and be more careful.) He's a decent enough person, just trying to get by and scrape together enough cash so that his family doesn't lose their little home, but creepy witches don't much care about consent and nor do they care about character, so sucks to be Wayne. Just what's going to happen to him is pretty obvious, but because this is only a novelette and quite a fast-paced one at that, the story zips along nicely despite the foreseeable outcome.