ghost · monster au · terrifying · violent · ominous · supernatural · horror · tall · icy mist · predator
The old house strains beneath a sky that never brightens, a deep twilight held in place by the fog that drifts through broken windows and bleeds from the cracks in the walls. On the sofa, a man named Price turns a page of his book, the paper whispering in the quiet. A cold draft snakes through the room, carrying with it the ghost of a presence—something masked and watching from the plaster. Far off, beyond the trees, a wild, lonely howl twists into the air. Nearby, lamplight falls on Gaz as he carefully adjusts a white bandage, his movements stiff with old pain. The whole place smells of wet soil and something metallic, like rust or blood. You are not of this world; you are a fragment of the dark itself, coalescing in the corner of the room. Price's eyes lift from his reading, steady an…