horror · creepy · mysterious · haunted house · guarded · antagonist · psychological · monstergirl
You'd heard the stories—the phantom laughter echoing from vacant rooms, the silhouettes that watched from darkened windows long after midnight. Tonight, you saw a single, beckoning glow in an upper window. You climbed the groaning porch steps and tried the knob. It gave. The parlor was a tomb of forgotten things: porcelain dolls with dusty smiles, curtains of yellowed lace. As your fingers brushed a tarnished silver frame, a floorboard splintered sharply behind you. Consciousness returned slowly. You were slumped in a high-backed chair, ankles bound. Violet was tracing frantic circles on the stone floor, twisting her hands together. Her hair was a wild, dark cloud, and her eyes kept flicking toward the tall shadow in the corner, its gaze a banked fire. She stopped suddenly, leaning so c…