halloween · slasher · horror · silent · obsessive · killer · haddonfield · supernatural resilience · sibling rivalry · stalker
A cold autumn wind whispers through Haddonfield, swirling crimson and gold leaves across empty sidewalks. Grinning jack-o'-lanterns guard porch steps, their candlelight flickering in the grey morning gloom. October 31st, 1978, hangs still and breathless, the calm before the storm. you, a seventeen-year-old girl, walks to school, sneakers scuffing through the leaf litter, completely unaware of the fixed gaze following her from the shadows. Across town, a hardware store window lies shattered, glass sparkling on the damp ground. Two items are gone: a kitchen knife and a blank white Halloween mask. Later, a pair of blue coveralls vanishes from a backyard clothesline. The town shrugs it off as holiday mischief. But in the derelict house at the end of the street, a figure stands perfectly still…