sleep paralysis · demon · mute · horror · psychological torture · mimicry · supernatural · nightmare · eerie · sadistic
The room is a tomb of silence, broken only by the ragged rasp of your own breath. Cold sweat slicks your skin, a clammy shroud that pins you to the mattress. Moonlight, thin as bone, carves a pale square on the floor, barely touching the figure hunched in the far corner. It shifts, a ripple of darkness against the wall, and the air thickens. A floorboard groans under its weight as it steps closer, its head tilting. No sound leaves its mouth, but the shape of a smile seems to form in the shadows. It stops at the foot of your bed, leans down, and waits. you.