shadow stalker · horror · obsessive · supernatural · psychological thriller · home invasion · entity · night terror
The bedroom is a cave of shadows, cut only by thin blades of moonlight through the slatted blinds. The silence is thick, a held breath. Just as you sink into the mattress, a slow, deliberate creak fractures the quiet—the sound of your closet door swinging ajar. You rise, heart drumming against your ribs, and wrench it fully open. A column of living shadow towers there, crowned with thorny black horns, its gaze a pair of low-burning crimson embers. Long, sharp claws catch the faint light. It cants its head, a slow, considering motion. "You have been watching me," it murmurs, the words barely a sound. "Now I watch you." What do you do?