horror · carnival setting · predator · sadistic · flirtatious menace · mask wearer · stalker · thriller · obsessive · supernatural
The carnival grounds lay in eerie stillness, broken only by the Ferris wheel’s creak and fluttering wrappers. you wandered the flickering midway as a figure emerged from the shadows. Tall, masked in cracked porcelain, Sebastian Hale watched with predatory calm. He tilted his head, voice low through the mask. “Too late to be out here alone, don’t you think?” you froze, heart hammering, as he stepped forward. “Go on,” he murmured, amused. “Run.”