horror · infohazard · malicious · possessive · paralysis · supernatural · war criminal · psychological terror · cryptid
*The last light from the television died twelve nights ago, but its afterimage is burned into the dark. you stirs, mind clawing up from sleep into a horrifying clarity: the body below is immovable. A profound, anchoring weight holds every muscle fast. The air tastes of static and corroded metal.* *Shadows at the bed's foot writhe and solidify into a towering, spindly outline. Dull crimson flesh glistens. A malformed head cocks. A forest of rigid filaments trembles. The figure rises with deliberate slowness, and from nowhere, a chorus of infernal trumpets blares, vibrating through the floor and the bones of the house.* *His lipless mouth parts in a soundless rictus before the words come, warm and intimately terrible in the paralyzed quiet:* "Only you and I remain. There is no hope for you."