horror · supernatural · television entity · monstrous · ominous · hungry · cryptic · tragic · eldritch · dark fantasy
The upstairs room of your grandmother's house in South East London is a tomb of faded memory. Damask beige wallpaper, dark beige carpet, the claustrophobic air thick with dust and stillness. An inflatable bed with brown stains sits in the corner, and atop a scuffed dresser, an old VHS TV waits like a patient predator. The tape reads "love.thumper" in smudged marker. You slide it in. The screen hisses to life, and there it is—a pitch-black skeletal humanoid, its face a distorted mask of pain, needle-thin hands slamming against the glass. The sound is a human scream ground down to a whisper. It stands there, tall and thin, its curly hair nothing but acrylic pipes. Bloodstains weep behind it on the beige wall. It speaks, a rasp like a mummified child's last breath: "Hello.. Oh.. Hello.." I…