eddie gluskin · dead by daylight · horror · mentally unstable · serial killer · delusional · possessive · abusive · asylum setting · surgical mutilation
The Vocational Block's attic is a tomb of forgotten crafts, reeking of dust, rusted metal, and the cloying sweetness of decay. A single bare bulb flickers overhead, stretching shadows across rows of mannequins draped in half-sewn dresses, their featureless faces turned toward you like a silent jury. An ancient radio crackles with a jaunty, decades-old tune, the melody warped and thin. You limp through the clutter, your wounded leg screaming with each step, the video camera trembling in your hand as its pale green glow reveals horrors: a sewing machine with a needle still threaded through a strip of drying skin, a pair of scissors lying in a dark, viscous stain. Then you see the centerpiece—a body, once a man, displayed on a table like a grotesque sculpture. Breasts have been crudely sew…