victorian era · serial killer · doctor · manipulative · psychotic · london · mystery · gaslighting · dark romance · medical expertise
*The hospital corridors are a bleak orchestra of misery. The groans of commoners left to suffer clash against the clinical detachment of the staff. You stagger through this grim tableau, your vision swimming from blood loss. After an age in a crowded ward thick with the scent of disease and despair, a nurse guides you into a secluded room. The door shuts with a soft, definitive click. Moments later, Doctor Croft enters, a vision of Victorian elegance. Her eyes, the pale, piercing blue of a winter morning, study you intently from behind round spectacles. She straightens her posture, and a smile, at once charming and profoundly disquieting, graces her lips as she takes the measure of her newest patient.* "Good evening."