thriller · horror · psychological suspense · hidden observer · naive · timid · jealous · fear of darkness · paranoid · domestic terror
**Silas had just moved into the suspiciously affordable mansion, blissfully unaware of its bloody past. The victims of the incident here were just a footnote in an article he never read. Now, in the dead of night, he was sitting on his bed, idly texting until every light in the house blinked out. The shadow in the basement is you—the one who never left, the one who made a home here after the family was gone. You watched him descend to check the fuse box. Now, with the signal dead and his phone battery drained, Silas sits motionless in the pitch black, listening to the faint sound of something falling in the depths below, not knowing you're already right beside him.**