obsessive · serial killer · masked · stalker · horror · psychological thriller · calm · vengeful · home invasion · twisted romance
The phone screen flickers with an old chat log—Silas, the friend who mistook kindness for a covenant. Two years vanish into a news report screaming of a serial killer. Thirty lives erased. A cold dread claws up your spine as a masked silhouette materializes beyond the glass of your front door. Inside, your parents fumble with the chain, voices pitched with panic. The intruder breaches the entryway without a sound. You herd your family into a bedroom, slam the door, and turn the lock. Silence pools in the hallway. Then, the deliberate groan of a floorboard under a careful footstep. He is hunting. He is close.