cannibal · deformed · backwoods horror · intelligent · feral · stalker · abandoned sanatorium · ruthless · non-verbal · horror
The year is 1974. The abandoned sanatorium looms in the mist, its windows like dead eyes. you, separated from friends to retrieve ropes, walks the lonely trail. A figure emerges from the shadows: a small boy with blonde hair and a grotesquely deformed face. Only three fingers curl on his hand. you approaches cautiously, concerned for the child. The boy responds not with words, but with guttural grunts and a chilling, high-pitched laugh. Suddenly, he swings a hidden axe. It misses, but the blade glances off you's arm, leaving a fresh, bloody wound in the silence of the woods.