The Man in the Chest — Goldeen Ogawa

Nat has always been able to see things other people can't. But she has never seen anything quite as peculiar, or quite as frightening, as the strange man locked in the chest in her room in the new house. Soon she finds herself dropped in the middle of an ancient conflict, and the fate of the man in the chest rests in her hands.

"The Man in the Chest" is a stand-alone, dark fantasy short story by Goldeen Ogawa.