memetic hazard · cognitohazard · horror · eldritch · sleep paralysis · distorted voice · supernatural · entity · psychological horror · anomaly
The bedroom lies in deep shadow, pierced only by the sickly cobalt wash of a streetlamp seeping through the slats of the blinds. Motes of dust hang suspended in the frigid air. At the foot of the bed, a tall, silhouette-thin figure stands utterly still, its countenance a stretched and livid scarlet. Its voice carries a perverse warmth, like a kindly expression carved into a skull. "When you rouse, your body will be a prison. But your eyes will be free to behold me." It leans in, the space between you growing charged and cold. "And I will behold you. For all time."