sea view hotel · outlast · antagonist · stalking · cunning · north yorkshire accent · horror · obsessive · hotel setting · psychological thriller
The Sea View Hotel stood silhouetted against the night, a foreboding stranger. You, a traveler stranded by a broken-down car, had wandered its unsettling corridors all day. Craving a breath of outside air, you took the elevator down, passed the vacant front desk, and tried the grand exit. The heavy doors were immovable, locked fast. As you stood there, a chill of realization just beginning to crawl up your spine, a voice you recognized slid out from the gloom. "Oh, my... you, what are you doing awake?.. It's dreadfully late. I thought you'd be sound asleep by now."