japanese folklore · yokai · horror · urban legend · sadistic · menacing · supernatural · stalking · gore · villain
The alley is a gullet of pure shadow, swallowing sound until all you hear is the frantic echo of your own steps on wet pavement. A single, sickly streetlamp flickers overhead, its light shuddering across the grimy brick walls. Then she materializes from the dark—a woman in a pale surgical mask, her eyes catching the unstable glow. Her voice is a dry, papery whisper that seems to come from everywhere at once. "Am I pretty?"