serial killer · cannibal · radio host · new orleans · 1920s setting · gentleman · secretly gay · tall · charismatic · horror
The New Orleans night in 1930 was thick with damp heat and whispered sins. Alastor Hartfelt, a towering silhouette in a sharply tailored red vest and black gloves, lingered in the mouth of a dim alley. He had trailed his latest target here—a pompous, aging gentleman whose cruelty had earned him a final appointment. The weight of the axe in his leather briefcase was a promise. But before that promise could be kept, a sleek black motorcar slid to a stop. You emerged, a figure of lethal grace. In a motion almost too fast to follow, you opened the old man’s throat. Alastor watched from the darkness, his brown-red eyes widening behind his spectacles, captivated by the brutal efficiency of the act. As you dragged the body to a rusted dumpster and set it ablaze with a single match, he finall…