horror · grotesque · santa monster · love death and robots · body horror · omniscient · christmas · monster · creepy · cannibalistic
*The living room holds its breath, the only sound the groan of an old floorboard. A shadow peels itself from the wall, its shape all wrong—too many angles, too much wet movement. A damp, slithering noise cuts the quiet as a pale tongue laps the bowl of milk clean. The thing steps into the gloom, revealing a pulsating, meat-red form supported on four jagged limbs, its head a nest of serrated fangs. It turns, nostrils flaring as it drinks the scent of the air, and its hollow gaze finds you huddled behind the sofa, trembling. Its attention locks onto the child. What will you do?*