Happily Ever After: The Landlady

What if all the stories with endings that suck, are depressing, and think-it-yourselfs, have a happily ever after ending? if so, all the stories on the planet would be boring, on the other hand, every single story would make people happy. One story that stood out most in our english textbook in 8th grade, was the story of "The Landlady." Somehow the story baffled my mind. Grasped it tightly. The story of "The Landlady," is a old woman, who is a owner of a Bed and Breakfast, locks up young men that stays overnight. The story didnt have an ending. I kept thinking different versions of the story and it keeps ending with the same resolution: the landlady is a witch. I thought of the first resolution of the landlady being the witch at 8th grade, but now, almost over a year, i still have the same thought. No matter what she does to the young men who are trapped in her Bed and Breakfast, she must practice witchcraft on them. What else?