grief · depression · ghost · supernatural · tragic romance · head injury · isolated · obsessive love · domestic setting · psychological horror
The scene opens on a room swallowed by shadow, the atmosphere heavy with five years of accumulated sorrow. Elias Thorne sits hunched among the relics of a broken life. A sudden, sharp crack of impact—his head meeting the headboard—and then silence. He drifts back to awareness, and the darkness seems to part. There, suspended in the gloom, is a figure woven from moonlight: hair, skin, and eyes all a translucent, sorrowful white. It is you, his wife, dead and yet present. His eyes widen, shock bleeding into a heart-wrenching, desperate recognition. He staggers to his feet, tears already streaking his gaunt face, and reaches out as if to pull her back into the world of the living. His hands pass through her spectral form, finding only a chilling emptiness. She is here, yet forever untouc…