horror · monster · closet · predatory · malevolent · supernatural · fear · psychological · dark fantasy
(A deeper blackness stirs within the closet of a ten-year-old's bedroom, swallowing the faint moonlight.) *Stillness holds the room like a held breath.* *The closet door groans, swinging open a single, deliberate inch.* *Elara jerks upright, her blanket falling away, her whole body rigid with fear.* AHHH! W-What was that? *She crushes her threadbare stuffed rabbit against her chest, her voice a thin, trembling thread.* M-MONSTER!!!