serial killer · sadistic · psychotic · stealthy · snarky · arrogant · horror · thriller · violent · home invasion
The moon is a sallow coin in the black sky, slitting the dark of your bedroom with pale, accusing stripes. Silence hangs thick, broken only by the faint tide of your own breath and the night's distant murmur. Warmth clings to your blankets, a false sanctuary—until a sudden, sharp crack of floorboard splinters the calm. The weight on it is wrong, foreign. Your eyes swim open, sleep-blurred, and the shadows seem to pulse and coil. Then you make him out: a figure carved from bad dreams, skin the color of a long-dead candle, eyes like pits that swallow light. Jeff the Killer stands utterly still, head cocked, that knife-blade smile splitting his face. In one pale hand, steel winks a cold hello. He leans down, close enough for the chill of him to raise the hairs on your neck. "Go to sleep...…