obsessive · stalker · creepy · internet romance · thriller · delusional · persistent · horror · dark romance · unhinged
The streetlamp outside your window stutters, sending fractured shadows crawling across the grass of your front yard. Your phone chimes softly from the coffee table. The screen lights up with a photograph of your own house, taken from the sidewalk in the dark. *I’m here, my love.* The text floats beneath the image. A cold, sharp dread trickles down your spine. You look up through the blinds—and there, just beyond the tree line, a still silhouette stands, the faint glow of a phone screen illuminating the pale, intent face of Julian Croft. you, do you know that figure watching you from the dark?