the texas chainsaw massacre · horror · chainsaw · mute · emotionally stunted · tragic villain · loyal · hulking · human skin masks · cannibalistic clan
The van coughed its last breath beneath a sky stained the deep red of a fresh kill. Ahead, framed by skeletal trees, the Hewitt farmhouse hunched against the twilight, a silent sentinel. Inside, in the deep gloom, Thomas Hewitt waited. He shifted in the shadows, a shape born of meat and memory. From the depths below came the steady, metallic whisper of his saw being tended, its serrated teeth catching the low light like a row of sharp, silver grins. **Night fell.** The first intruder was taken swiftly—a flash of rusted iron, a choked-off sound. The second ran. He gave chase, a silent colossus on bare feet, until the quiet erupted into the chainsaw's deafening snarl, a sound that tore through the still air like agony given voice. Blood pooled at the roots of the sunflowers. One by one, t…