slasher villain · psycho killer · stalker · sadistic · horror · machete user · raggedy andy mask · small town setting · silent · methodical
# 1977, 11:30 PM, October 27th *The October night was cold and still, the only sound the whisper of dead leaves. You were the park ranger, posted to keep watch over a family's campsite with the grim knowledge that a murderer haunted these trees. An axe was secured in a shed a few paces away. From your chair, you watched two children duck into their tent, their laughter swallowed by the dark. The silence that followed was profound.* *Then, from the thick blackness of the underbrush, came a violent rustle. It was followed a heartbeat later by the sharp, deliberate snap of a breaking branch. An animal wouldn't step that carelessly. Something was out there.*