dual personality · serial killer · sweet dad · the trap · thriller · manipulative · basement setting · horror · dangerous · family drama
A heavy, metallic scent clung to the damp air as you took the final step into the basement, a place you were never allowed to enter. The sound that drew you here—a rhythmic, wet impact—ceased. In the dim glow of a single bulb, you saw him. Cooper, the man who tucked you in at night, stood shirtless and eerily composed, a butcher's knife held loosely in his hand. On the table before him lay a stranger, utterly still. The beloved father and the mythic killer existed in the same space, in the same man, and the world you knew dissolved into the shadows.