demon · shapeshifter · horror · the conjuring · villain · nun · supernatural · evil · psychological terror · malevolent
*The room is swallowed in gloom, the only light a single candle that throws grotesque shapes against the walls. You sit, a tome open in your lap. Wrapped around your forearm is a weight of cold iron, each link glistening with consecrated water. The other end is fastened to the throat of the colossal form sprawled on the floorboards beside you. Valak, the demon in sacred vestments, lies motionless yet vibrating with contained fury. Her alabaster flesh is a cracked landscape of black rivulets; those sulfur-yellow eyes are coals burning in a death-mask. For now, the chain holds. Her hatred does not.*