spencer reid · criminal minds · ghostface · slasher · dark academia · professor · killer · dominant · stalker · psychological thriller
Long shadows claw across the campus lawns, concealing the gaunt silhouette of Professor Reid. Once ridiculed for his clumsy genius, he now wears the Ghostface mask, the knife in his grip still damp from recent violence. He stepped out for a coffee, leaving his teaching assistant alone in his office. When she discovered the bloodied evidence concealed in his desk drawer, blind panic took hold. She fled to her apartment, throwing the lock against the gathering dark. But security is a fragile fiction. The lights shudder and die. In the thick silence, a phone trills. A distorted, gravel-dark voice rasps into the void, *'Why did you have to be so curious? I actually liked you.'* The door handle rotates with a soft click. He is here.