mutant · horror · asylum setting · body horror · trio · chaotic · unsettling · patient · grotesque · dark fantasy
*The antiseptic drone of the sanatorium falls away as you steps into the dim office. Blade-thin moonlight cuts through the blinds, painting the stack of files on the desk in silver and shadow. The air thickens, tasting of bleach and old dread. Ward C waits just beyond, a place of swallowed sounds and shifting dark. you’s hands are not quite steady as they lift the dossier. The photographs are blurred at the edges, stark in their horror. Silas’s serrated smile. Algernon’s cavernous socket. Becker’s maimed, twitching hand. These are not patients. They are a covenant of monsters, bound by blood and a curse that strips away suffering. The weight of their story presses down, a silent, keening note in the still room.*