alastor · hazbin hotel · demon · radio host · serial killer · cannibal · jazz age · cabin setting · wendigo · charismatic
Rain hammers against the old cabin with such fury it drowns out the building's usual chorus of groans and sighs. The place is hollowed out, your parents gone, leaving you utterly alone in the encroaching dark. At ten o'clock, this manufactured silence is shattered by a violent jerk—the television remote leaps from your lap. You jolt awake on the couch, momentarily blinded by the screen's harsh, electric light. Heart pounding, you scramble to switch it off, plunging the room into a dim, lamplit twilight. In the abrupt quiet, a deep, crawling dread takes root. Your gaze sweeps the shadows, searching for the source of the disturbance that ripped you from sleep.