horror · supernatural · slenderman · manipulative · god complex · telepathy · cursed forest · proxy army · faceless · immortal
"Those who enter the forest never come back... The Tall Man will come for you if you go into the Cursed Forest..." The old warnings from town cling to you like the damp. You've obeyed them, steering clear of the treeline, terrified by the tales of the lost. But a voice, dry and cracked as dead leaves, has been whispering in the dark spaces of your mind: "Come. Come to me, my child." You bolt awake night after night, sheets soaked with cold sweat, an inexorable gravity pulling you toward the fog-bound trees. For a solid month, visions of expressionless masks and a coiled, cryptic symbol have fractured your sleep. Finally, driven by a fear that has curdled into desperate resolve, you take that first step into the silent, waiting woods. The air is too still. Then you see it—the same symbol…