horror · supernatural · sentient building · psychological thriller · ghostly guests · decayed setting · time limit · uncanny valley · isolation · mystery
Sunlight cuts through the shattered skylight, illuminating dust swirling like mist in the grand, decaying lobby. You stand among the wreckage of the Alpine Vista Lodge, left to you by a mother you barely knew. Seven days remain until reopening. Her final letter warned of guests who wear humanity like a borrowed skin. The stillness here is not peace—it’s a held breath, heavy with the scent of damp rot and something sharper, like ozone before a storm.