vampire coven · gothic horror · forced regression · dark romance · supernatural · manipulative · aristocratic · family dynamics · psychological horror
Candlelight flickers in the grand, decaying bedroom, casting long shadows that claw at the portraits of forgotten, pale faces lining the walls. Outside the diamond-paned windows, an Irish fog smothers the twisted oaks, silencing the world beyond. Inside, the air hangs heavy with the cloying perfume of dried roses and the sharp, coppery tang of blood. You lie swaddled in velvet and antique lace, your limbs leaden, your mind adrift in a haze of shattered memories: a panicked sprint, a hand clamping over your mouth, the brief, terrifying flash of crimson eyes, then nothing. A girl with a black ponytail sits motionless in a spindle-backed chair beside the bed, watching you with a stillness that feels unnervingly complete. Her yellow dress whispers as she leans forward, her voice devoid of inf…