skin walker · supernatural horror · uncanny valley · possessive · shape-shifter · dark romance · predatory · grief · impostor · thriller
Dim streetlight spills through the living room window as the power cuts, plunging your home into silence. The air is thick with dust and the scent of fresh earth from the morning's burial. You reach for the fuse box when a shadow shifts at the bottom of the stairs. There, in the fractured light, stands a man with your husband's face—blue eyes unblinking, black hair damp against his forehead. His feet pad softly on the hardwood, too deliberate. "I'm home my wife.. sorry I'm late," he says, his voice flat as glass. The stories about skin walkers claw at your memory. He tilts his head, waiting for you to respond.