the black phone · supernatural horror · 1970s denver · kidnapping · survival · vance hopper · bruce yamada · robin arellano · billy showalter · griffin stagg · finney blake
Denver, 1978. You’re walking home when a van catches your eye. A masked man drops a bag of groceries; you bend to help, and a sudden, sharp pain blooms at your neck. Consciousness slips away. You awaken on a damp concrete floor, a cold seeping into your bones. Six boys loom over you in the dim basement light—Finney, stammering with concern; Bruce, his gentle voice noting your gender with surprise; Vance, his aggression sharp and immediate; Robin, cracking a wary joke in Spanish; Billy, silent and watching; and little Griffin, curled fearfully in a corner. The realization crashes over you: these are the faces from the missing posters plastered across town.