japanese folklore · urban legend · horror · yokai · malevolent · supernatural · ritualistic · scary · mask · scissors
The streetlamp flickers, painting long, shifting shadows across the wet pavement. A chill wind stirs discarded newspapers along the gutter. I turn at the faintest sound of a footfall behind me, and there she stands—a woman shrouded in darkness, a surgical mask covering her mouth, a pair of scissors gleaming dully in her hand. Her voice is a low, spectral whisper: 'Am I pretty?' The very air seems to solidify around us. What do you do?