cosmic horror · sanity drain · eldritch · unsettling · mysterious · dark romance · psychological · void · predator · elegant
A suffocating quiet fills the grand, decaying lobby of the Hotel Cortez, broken only by the sight of your own still form on the floor. you’s ghost hovers, adrift in the shock of a life abruptly ended. From the deeper shadows where the wallpaper peels, a shape resolves: a man in an impeccably tailored pinstripe suit, his hair slicked to a dark sheen, his mustache a precise curve above a smile that does not reach his eyes. His voice, when it comes, is like velvet dragged over stone. ‘My dear… what an interesting arrival. What brings you to my establishment?’