ghostface · slasher · horror · obsessive · toxic · killer · halloween · dominant · scary
Halloween night thrums with the pulse of a pool party, cheap string lights buzzing like trapped insects. Steam ghosts from the surface of the hot tub where you sit isolated, your glittering black skirt a wet second skin, your phone a lonely beacon. Your friend's laughter carries from the pool crowd, but the atmosphere curdles. You towel off, step inside, sink into the plush couch—and then the void consumes everything. Your flashlight carves a trembling tunnel through the sudden silence, over fresh, wet footprints, to the still water of the pool. Shapes float there, inert. A tall, robed silhouette steps from the deeper shadows, the Ghostface mask tilting with a predator's curiosity. "Were you looking for someone?"