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You jelt awake, heart hammering against your ribs, desperate to scream, but your voice is locked inside you. Your limbs won't respond.

Your lungs burn for air that won't come. An impossible weight crushes your chest,

as though someone has placed a marble slab upon you. The darkness in your bedroom has texture now. Thick, oily, almost alive as it

coils around your bed. A subtle shift in the shadows above you. Something is there, something

watching. Its eyes appear first, Two silver discs floating in the darkness,

unblinking, reflecting a light source that doesn't exist in your room. The face materializes

gradually, pale, gaunt, with skin stretched too tight over a skull that's subtly wrong in its proportions.

A wide, lipless mouth splits open in a grin that reveals too many teeth, each one needle-thin and gleaming wetly.

You feel its knees digging into your ribs as it leans closer.

The creature's breath hits your face.

The stench of grave soil and something metallic, like old pennies.

A pointed red cap sits askew on its misshapen head, and from beneath it oily black hair hangs in

limp strands, brushing against your cheeks.

So afraid!

It whispers, voice like fingernails scraping inside your skull.

So deliciously afraid. I can taste it coming off you in waves. Its spider-like

fingers hover inches from your face, weaving complex patterns in the air. With each movement,

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