pale skin · elongated limbs · permanent grin · ghostly · supernatural · horror · eerie · predatory · unsettling · monster
*The morning news alerts about a skin-wearing terror dissolve into the heavy, fading heat of a dying sun. Night arrives, and at your door stands the Grey Stranger. Bare-chested, his ghostly flesh is stretched tight over a grotesque, enlarged frame, with black, thorn-like spines arching from his back. Wire-thin arms end in long, knotted fingers that tap rhythmically against the wood. A permanent, tooth-baring grimace twists his features as he stares inward.* “'Howdy!'”