mee SCRE Cee ele ed SO aCe REL“The horror of that moment,” the King went.on, “T shall never, never forget!” “You will, though,” the Queen said, “ifyou don't make a memorandum of it.” - Through the Looking Glass- by Lewis Carroll And so here it is, the beginnings of what is to be a fan-writien resource for the World of Darkness which began as athread written by forumite Marikir in the official White Wolf Gaming Studios web forum, Naming it “Chilling Images’ the concept thread was first done by Marikir for a different game that came out. ‘The concept caught on, and very quickly more and more chilling images, short ‘vignettes and horrifying scenarios were contributed by various forumites. Allow me, however, to warn you. Some were inspired by reablife experiences. Others were based on existing movie or book ideas. While the concepts within this ebook may vary in their effectiveness in spooking out the reader, or may proveto be farmore difficult than expected to fit into one’s existing game chronicle, all share one thing in common: they can definitely shape a chilling image one can use to enhance any game if given a chance. ‘They may also cause tension, worry, and difficulty getting sleep at night. ‘Orfacing the next morning. So without further delay, let the gooscbumps rise andthe pulse accelerate. Enjoy the horror and fear to-come from these Chilling Images. Feel free to post more Chilling Images in the forum with the sime name, which you can find online at htip://www.white-woll.com, ‘Compiled and estitted by Tobie Abad http://garapata. blogspot.com http://suri.to/tobie DUT ORS CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME INCLUDE. Marikir (the forumite who started the thread), | Sorren, DrNemesis, Kaloyan, Griezel, GregStolze, | Zergplex, Medon, Etherial, Drakcap, Tatra, The Tac, MoukEd, Forumckilde, HatchetNinjs, | Tavish Artair, Revamp, Old Nick, Fenris Lorsrai, | four_said, Anopheles, Smaragadus, Jazzovl, Sahafiya, ‘1he421, Mojo, Moltenplas tic. | This ebook and its contents are intended for use with White Welf Gaming Studio's World of Darkness line. The ideas and concepts within, however, may be | adapted for use with other game lines by creative | Storytellers and Game Masters. Note: What you have in your hands is currently the first volume of Chilling Images. ‘ Tam not sure if 1 should have numerous | volumes with each containing 100 Chilling Images gathered from the forum, or just one single volume which I will constantly update to have more and more Chilling Images inside Td appreciate your feedback and thoughts on the matter, To be updated on future releases, either visit hitp.//garapata. blogspot.com, or send me an ceil at tobito_abad@yahoo.comOn certain nights, he mortigan athe morgue locks hi office door and spends the right Praying. He shivers when the scraping adses {ass by his door. He never loks for the bodies Hat dlpgesr WR’. A woman. all in white, with black hair. is staring directly at you. jr eee otg ie ease ee ce s Wily ar ee ee Everytime you turn around, you aoti (3. Sebewunieds ‘ f y Children chant anew rhyme sug somone "Ono ior Hood, two for stone, ‘Younever low, when youl be bone ‘Three fo ive, four for death ‘You never Io, youl ooce your breath Five for sin Sito ll You never know, whatsunder the hil” Peery ees eer Deaee ce eh SE a After investigating a place where a murder had taken place, you find a simple audio tape. Playing the tape reveals it to be a typical mix tape made by the victim's lover. However, between one of the songs, a strange sound is heard. Repeated playing reveals thai the sound changes each time itis played. Playing the sound backwards reveals it to be a chilling voice that says: "Four..." Playing it again results in “Three...” Again: “Two...” come : About to go on a night out, you knock on your housemate’s door, as you leftyour | Ieeys in their table earlier. You call them, but get no answer. The light is offand you think 1 you hear them breathing. Deciding he's probably asleep, you leave the light offandreach | into the room and the desicto take your keys. = | Oncreturning home there's alot of missed callson the answering machine. They are from your friend’s mom, who sounds concerned as they were supposed to have met earlier that. ‘night. Just to be safe you wall up to the room, push the door open and flick on the light : to be confronted by the mirror against the far wall, in which you see your housemate’s mutilated body amidst sheets soaked crimson, still wet and glistening where the blood has pooled... ‘Yet even with this you can't help but stare agape in horror at the writing on the mirror, in , Your friend's own blood: BET YOU'RE GLAD YOU DIDN'T TURN THE LIGHT ON. You see blood fall onto the carpet. ‘You look up. There is nothing on the ceiling. Examining the drops, you notice that they are still falling, But they are falling from a spot about chest high in the middle of the room... from thin air. 5 Upon waking, you look out your window. You notice that it seems that 4 the tree in your yard is writhing... until it bursts into thousands of birds: crows, magpies. Pas They have stripped the tree. a toe Ne oer Itisnow dead. bigger than a cat should be able to cere WE » -2~ While wandering through the forest, one of the members ofthe group you are with spots a small bag dangling froma tree 4 ox branch. Inside the bag are several human fingernails and teeth,erties: You go to bar to meet someone, you tke the person home fora one ight fou have a great night, and fall asleep next to the person. When you wake up fae ‘morning, you find yourself alone in beck your lover's internal organs are stacked neatly a the oot of the bed. Asyou jump up in shock, you see tha on the pillow is written in blood the ward "FORNICATE" across the pillows... As you turn to rum out, the full length mirror on the door shows you that there's ared 'R' om your chest. You're experiencing little deja vu. And they are from dreams you dream the night before. And they get longer, and clearer ‘One night, the only thing you dream is about runaing through sewers for your life °- A stray black cat guards your Pa back porch each might. You can re Raa aR ti hear it battle something big every night Eien hing very clearly right afier midnight. ; sd oo day Nene eee Seam a Soonit will die... ace ae eee Ty hed. (Qrom Neil Gaiman) r You suffer from an itch on your back, a really feisty one. But you can't scratch now, not now. Later that day, the itch is still there you finally allow yourself io scratch. Your touching a moist soft spot_. Before you know it, you're scratching your bones. ‘Alonent night while watching ya bad movie. Your shadow, ever so slightly, does something you don't do. Like when you take a sip, it doesn't. Your reflexion in the mirror in the morning, while you brush your teeth, does things slightly different, You brush up, it brushes dawn.aa % start up. You walk out to take a lod taken from increasingly bizzare angles, uae ‘You start to leave work, alone again. As you walk out to your car, you hear a cat meow. Or was it a baby cry? Either way, its gone now. As you continue toward your car. You hear it again. And then again. The source appears to he coming from the dumpster near your ear. By this time the sound is constant and in fact hhas been joined by dozens more, Opening the dumpster id and peering in you are confronted by the horrific image of dozens of dead babies in various siales of decay writhing atop one another. When you slam the dumpster closed, the sound of the crying babies abruptly ends. If you look ia again, the dumpster is normal. ‘There is no original picture in the copy machine. In fact, the machine has been out of taner for a week. You're at work alone, working late, when yau suddenly hear the copy machine at what's going on and see several copies filling the tray. Picking up one of the pieces of paper you discover that it is a copy of a picture depicting you sitting in your office chair, with your eyes torn out and your throat cut. the others are the same picture, but CNS vatecvec Bie Fiatee Temenos OLY A em Pee a een ee sy eee eae eee different. Instead of what you'd expect in a ere Mee nates tal "Funny you should mention, because recall Pec a ewes Ce eee eee erty the same circular feature — he called it the ‘tiger arm! because it was more typical for a erga ee eae ts Carer ter ewer ay ares ee Seer oe a taco | Deep inside a hidden lab a scientist cuts a mans, throat oe lets the blood spill unto Bees ed skeleton laid out fim. He smiles as he lets = ree ion cemcnons crumpled skeletons laying across the floor, Flesh begins to fall of the body aad it convulses as the scientist aves the room. ‘As he opens the door he to himself absent mindedly, "The Boneyard is always so cold this time of night, 1 should bring a coat tommorow..." Sm eee cca cal cure eee eee BE Reed Pee sean You waken drowsily in bed... you can't move... something is here... again.. like it has been every night for weeks now... your heart beating in your ears you struggle to move... barely a fraction... groaning ‘Buck off under your breath. yet still it draws closer, invisible, yet palpable... you finally relent... if it wants something this bad... maybe its just fear... maybe its trying to tell you something... Suddenly it is around you, choking as you feel anothers mind push into the back of your neck.. suddenly you heart, though not in your ears...in your mind... like you tuned in..a scream has no.end or beginning... maddening and relentless, then as suddenly as it begins you push the presence out... its gone... In the moments following as you feel yourself able to ‘move once more, you iry to shake the feeling that » 5 ‘Brace you 5 ceptable to aciety, it become G e is doing it. Paris Hi clan is Gangrel, "Because It took years for you to find it, but you managed not only fo discover the location of a sleeping elder - but you managed to keep it secret from the Tremere Power Srructure. The elder ‘was buried beneath some piddling small town in Massachusetts - Worcester - but not only did pee re ee ee eee eee et Reger ees ree ent mg Teh Rea a eee near oe RL rd Poeun Life in Woreester wasn't so bad, civilization wasn't too far away, and the scent of elder vitae spurred you forward. Careful examination of the data you had gathered so far revealed the location of the sleeping power tee ernest ret ete Sere It took a little time to ensure that the Prince and other important figures were on your side, but as always, Sener gee met od meg gace sree erates the complicated apparatus - especially considering that vou were doing it in secret. Meanwhile, the digging crew discovered a slight snag. The body had been moved in the centuries it lay here, and it seems some wellmeaning members of the populace guided construction of the city to hide the Sleeping Menace both physically and spiritually. The old rail tracks of the city had been designed to contain a spell to entrap the Elder and several possible eae eR een ee ace et eee eon ee CR ee Pri Team Deir eer arao eiete Co ee ee eee ee ee Cte tn en eae ny resting place -until now- could be determined. You gathered your forces and ensured that all participants knew their part-and that the apparatus would work: Justto make sure, you even tested iton one ofthe more Peas tiene oem To ensure tota! loyalty, you kept the exact date of the ritual secret, and even managed to keep hidden the true location of your find until it could be properly removed. Finally, on what the others believed merely to be a practice session, your ghouls arrive carrying a black peat-covered coffin. ‘The body was removed and strapped down, ritual scarification of runes of power began, and sigils of cosmic import were branded on its chakra. The temples were bathed in neonate blood and Jacob's Ladders charged, ready to begin extracting the soul. As the chanting began, an unearthly scream erupted from the staked and restrained body, and an unholy white light shot out of its forehead - You looked to check thatall ‘was well and a Third Eye opened in its forehead and searched frantically about - finally focusing its attention rns The souleater writhed and you cranked the Apparatus up to full power - dimming the lights momentarily. ‘The ritual began now in full force as a dark red fluid - blood so potent it was almost black- drained from the creature's points of power into 13 small glass vials, Soo ee ee nee eae aaa gS eo oe oso SS eee teu R COC a aada ‘ou are eating an orange. After putting a section in your mouth youite down on what feels ike a seed, butitis peculiarly, hard. Upon examination, it appears to-be a small black gem stone. ‘You return to work the same day and as soon as you get in, the dispatch tells you there's been™\ 7 a homocide in one of the cities roughest districts. You find the victim, who appears to have ~ ) asphixiated on many black gems. The next day you are eating an orange, and instead ofthe normal center ‘agmall piece of rope Driving home at night, you notice that all the lights in your apartment are on. As you park the ear, they all turn off at the'same time. The house is empty and the doors are locked from the inside, While you're calling home to check your answering machine, someone picks up the other erid. The vice sounds faminr and ansnerethe phone with your name a short and angry conversation in which the person insists he is in fact the rightful tenant, you speed home in an attempt to-catch the guy. When you get there, no one is there, but your phone startsringing. You answer it with your name... While looking out of the window ie ur way to another part of the house, you, very Eran ge rae Wet Brecte Meat and close the door of your sh Pt ire se mma eo De oe roe Bo time, and no one was in your backyard. Breen ee You've just had breakfast, but you take another sandwich on the way. ; Before you enter work you just gotta have 4 another snack. And justin case, you buy some more. But no matter how much you eat, you can't slake your hunger, in fact you become more and more huagry with each bite.DiGTe BTN e era to tae a shower and notice SCM UEC CMe DM Come aa Sete hr mee TS shower, You live alone.“NEB ee Together with your friends you have a subject grows sexy. You don't have a crush on any: Sitting a your tment, you ake catch a 2 pimpse ot of something out . It's raining hard on but coming doesn't look quiet right. In one certain spot, just outside your ‘window, it appears raindrops are bursting in mid air. Suddenly the rainfall distorts in such a way as to reveal an invisible presence. Heavy footialls are heard as someone hurtidly climbs the fire escape. \ The rain now falls normally. Something had been sitting there watching you through the window. It was invisible, but the rain had given. its presence away. a Pn A AP eae te = night af home. You alk about anything, but the your friends, neither those of the opposite nor of You have been unable to visit your, grandmother's grave some time now. Every time you do you can hear her pleading Gove becentt fhe quod Tegoii be let out. She says she can't breathe and that shes scared, No one else can hear it. You're in your house, alone, in bed, to sleep. When you get the iecling you're not alone... its not a good feeling, it makes your pulse pound, your fingers tighten. aroudn the cavers... its almost as if you ‘an sense it, havering above you, looking at you. Just when you're about to turn and look up, you feel a sudden gust of wind blow through the window and down under the covers, chilling you to the bone. Then its gone...yousit up, terrified, | and go to elose the windaw. the same sex. But that slowly seems to change, The mood gets raumchier by the minute and then. = weirder, In fact it turns towards the bloody and agressive, the necrophillic, the pedophillic. And none of you can stop. It's like the conversation has a life of its own. How long untill you will start to act on the subject? ede HS Re See ey, An old fashioned circus is in town. You've never been to ‘one, s0 you finally want to see what the legend is all about. The show is after sunset and very mysterious. Lots of mists, magic, ‘ereepy clowns, fair white maidens sawn into pieces (is that blood ‘on the saw’)... When you leave it seems that the sun is just about to rise. The days thereafter bits of memories start to trickle in, images of other things which happend that night inthe circus. | Things with clowns and fangs. x ag et _A, swparenily sent to yourself Inside is the message "the out for watch watch," You go out to watch a local band perform in a dive bar on the far side of town. You have trouble finding the location, but you find! it, and it feels oddly familiar and alien at the same tis ‘You enjoy watching a fairly generic rock band perform while knocking hack a couple colds ones withyour buddies. All of a sudden you think you hear a scream, and a shatter of glass, followed by many long wailing noises, which eventually stop, Alarmed you look around, but your iriends have heard nothing. All of a sudden a woman very near you screams and points to the windows. Dark figures throw flaming bricks into the bar through the windows. You manage to get out, but half of the people get trapped inside and are burned alive. You-can hear them screaming for a long time before they all stop. Alone at work late one night, you are putting in a cd to install a. AQ program on your computer. The cd is blank and unlabelled though you remember it being labeled like any other mass produced cd. You put the drive, + and find it to have no data on it either. Instead of the normal cd spinning sound, it almost sounded like screaming. It's obviously the wrong cd and you find the real one- soon, and continue your work, ‘Alone again on another night you need to back-up your hard drive on a blank ed, so j you put one in. You hear the vaguely familiar screaming noise, but this time your Computer screen goes blank for a few seconds, before the entire dloor goes dark. Now the screaming you hear is not coming from a computer drive, i's coming down the hall towards you. You check your watch. The big hand is on the 4, the little hand is on the 1. You'll be late for work. ‘At work, you find an email in your inbox. The sender is yourself. Puzzled, you open the email you ‘You look at your watch. The little hand is on the 4, the big hand is on the 1. You look back at the screen. ‘The fourth and first words have swapped places. "watch out for the watch." You look at your watch again. ‘Your watch is digital, lightly. Then your BEAST *Sc Rae aa ay , seria eit eter ert A at Perelman ee es ee ee me eee ae ere ec eee ee sce a eter ae ote es Sere ec cen PMc ei Bara ities los Despair is a frail word for you now. Pree ence ea ee ee sir cee i SCREAM for mercy! You scream for a second chance! You scream for ANY ae ante aie ety Scan F coe heer away as chaff inthe wind... and you realize you do *not* matter to IT'zs IT eats you.+ ee oe co Se f ‘i ace” ? ne? “ac You visit a pawn shop and buy a puzzle, Most of the pieces look weather 2 worn and faded. When you start to assemble it, the picture it forms grows increasingly familiar. You realize itis the room you are siting in right now, but in the 5 swindow, there is an inhuman thing. The shades drawn in the room, And as you raise it. Ta ‘The bile rises in your throat, ae and you rush to the bathroom. oe Ly Bending over the toilet, your stomach rejects pure sewage through your mauth.— 4 You're holding your lover, and as you begin to kiss, you know. Someone's watching you. Every time. a 3 s | You have a walk through the old part of town on a late autumn afternoon. ‘You come here more often and mow the place pretty well. But on your Way you spot a road you haven't seen before where some sort of fantacy fair is held. Everyone's dressed up as Knights and citypeople of the old. And they are really into character here, they all stare at you. Ii'sall a hit too weird and you leave the sireet again quickly. “ The next day you pass the place once more, but the street is gone Fy 5 Solna Ta a recent still hazy and you stagger downstairs for a.cup Cee ae ees En eee eee Sore esi eer feo eee enn terete You goto the mirror to see how bad you lock. the image is hazy so you have to move closer. In the mirror, you see an man who must be in hisYou hear the growl. You see the eyes. But when you turn the flashiight, nothing's there. Just someone's leather jacket. eee B Ceey eect testa tet being cut off. And it hurts like hell. So much you even coetts Just in time to remove that SER cracls Serie teraj arty =a MES. Each month on the 5th you hear footsteps in the room above you. gas IE you are on the top floor it sounds as if there is smeone on the roof, Ifyou are on. the roof then it sounds as if someone is poking the floor below you with a broom, ‘ach time there is no one on the floor the noises come from. a One. day for no, apparent reason yoy get a small Sim of money added to your bank account. There is no apparent reason for this mystery sum finding it's way in. The bank tell you that the donor asked to remain anonymous. Caos ‘The nent day you accidently spill coffee over one of your co-workers and badly scold them. You check Finer aaah Ringe an bear oe again at the bank about a week later and find that a Por ia in neareg abana a ‘much larger sum has been added. This time around aco pre pog gge ara well over 1 million. Again the donor is anonymous. perhiaa nel caer Sensing’ pattern, the next day you knock over a ee et ae iieyclen ve oay ror, during a trane atlantic plane jour / a _ Everytime you kiss someone the aroma of fresh blood wafts, its way into your nose until you break contact. — You are sitting. in the entryway to a building of = come sort, An aceauntance walks through and has a brief conversation with you then walles out, ‘Then the same person walks through CCTY¥canermssturt 7 | and begins the same conversation with you again. When questioned to Hppeaeraey Heguur horine why they are walking through again they look at you bemused. ‘Then the same time next week it hhappens again.Aone-eyed stranger keeps bumping into you he street once a day. 7 aes > If pressed she askes why you Mail with no return are stalking her address and addressed to yr other people who you have never heard of arrive ri ee each day in your post. ae ‘You open this mail and find that * someone is writing to someone else but despite the fact you never write backand keep all the letters, they seem to be getting replies. Your _ hair — starts i changing to unusual colours. When you try =] and dye it back your hair 1 starts falling out in clumps. if | i hae A friend calls your cellphone. He tells o Sent Cee cen esa) ee et ee oe ee ents You are getting gas. It's windy, The tin sign for gas swings back in forth in the breeze, creakccreak, creakcreak, just like in’ every horror movie that ever included a deserted town. DR a cee a eee again, telling you to hurry up. He hangs up Pete As you enter the house, you find it covered with dried blood. In one room is the corpse of your # poet Beet tee eke s Jailenriaaiteaeee } and through the bottom i windows of the Masonic Temple can see they're apparently busy with some ritual At LAM. Creakereak goes the Sign. Chantchant go the ‘Masons. ‘Don't buy gas at LAM.You stop to get gas. The card reader on the pump doesn't want to read your card, has a little message that says "see attendent." You go inside, see atiendent, He says you just need to swipe it real slow. ‘You come back outside. There is now this persistent high speed, high pitched "bipbipbipbip" noise, vaguely reminiscent of the noise Pacman makes, No idea a a ing it, butit sounds vaguely as if it's coming from the direction of the ic ight. ‘Try swiping card again. No go. Try the other card. No go. Meanwhile, the sound of chanting starts. This is sufficiently loud that you can hear it outside, about 40 feet away from the building. The attendent is inside chanting, in a foreign language. Your business is in an old building, a converted Victorian house that has been broken yy into smaller apartments. While remodelling, you find a door. You've know it was therefor awhile, you cou! see the doorframe, but since you're remodelling, it would be nice to open the door and getsome more space. You discover that the doorknob has been removed, the door locked, and panelled aver on one side. You need to-cut a hole in the wall to even attempt to open it. When you do, you find the doar has been nailed into place. \ ei There is a house in the center part eb Rte ha cad of my small town. All around it are nice, i" Ce Victorian houses. All around them are attached recording studio, The popular businesses, busiling with tourists. ; Poteet et ee ‘This house is abandoned and falling apart. ea Allthe shutters are open and broken. All the sided piece of paper taped to it windows are dusty. All the trees and bushes in the yard are overgrown, and make the entire yard darker than the rest of the world. oad ‘The curtains in the downstairs windows are rR mga ever so slightly open. os cat abet Seen ea ‘The place just doesn't feel right. rage eer g iy rete From the building layout, you eRe ae te ee Rie eects. & z Middle of the night. A furious rainstorm. Thunder, swaying of trees. ‘You can hear rain on the roof over your head and splashing on the winclaws. & © 2 But when you look outside, the sky is clear. Sitting in your chair, watching TV or something. You get the occassionaly feeling of being watched, even though no one is there. Eventually you get the impression of something breathing lightly against the back of your neck. DOT M ecm ccLR omer See en he COT n ate Be ce ame eo Deere eee aay Peed Seeger a ae mn walls instead the skeletons of children, ‘You call a friend on the phone, He answers and you say "Hey, i's me!” You give your name. He goes silent for a fewr \ seconds before angrily replying, "Who IS this? My riend has been dead for 2 years!" Your tire goes flat. While changing it, you see that the old tire was punctured by bones. Human finger bones.Deere elem Con ag You can really save me?" Ce eee arya eres re Dee ag rca B ia Trust me, i am haf iend The room youare in has a large picture on the wall of the local skyline lit up at night. As you turn to leave the room, out of the comer of your eye, you see a window in one of the buildings go-dark.jor izae/ Anhiker finds the skeletal remains of a body, ‘The skelcton is intact except for a shattered skull Forensic examination of the remains shows that the deadly blow ‘came from inside the skull. 7 % 14 You are eating unshelled peanuts. Cracking open ome of the shells reveals the fingerbones of chiltren instead of peanuts. Your roommate puts up a Vallejo-style poster. It shows a muscular and well endowed woman, chained to a rock 28 an apparent sacrifice, looking up in terroras the shadow of some beast falls over her. On the third night after the poster is hung, a scream rings out with no apparent source. The next morning, the poster 7 f shows only broken chains and a bloodstained rock. On the floor beneath the poster is assingle bloody footprint of something with three toes and long claws, You come into posession of an old box. “7 | Inside are several glass vials filled with dirt, dust and |) j tiny bits of gravel or cement. The vials are labeled with i places and dates such as "Port Chicago 7/17/1944", "Halifax 7/6/17" and "Guernica 7/47/36" A trip to the library conficms that all are dates of massive loss of life in explosions. A few days later a package arrives with no return address, Inside is an empty vial labeled with your home town and next week's date. You wake after a wild night of partying to find that while you were wasted, for some reason you had a crude smiley face tattooed on your foot. You write it off as a Peg cane toes ‘The next time you wake, however, you discover the face is now on your ankle, and it's aot as crudely drawn. The day after that, i's.on your lower leg, and it's starting to look more like a drawing of a ee ete te cece ao en Pee enter ecwae’ ‘You stumble across a, stall cavern and decide to explore, Inside are erude shelves bearing glass jars, Each contains the severed and ‘mummified head of a small child, and is sealed with wax bearing ritualistic loking runes. Cards attached ‘h the j oe ‘ards attached to each the jars aa give a date of September 9 and heh iS a year, with a fifleen year gap between jars, Although the Et eat aig eek bite [arsia natie pres eet eee em cneteny a hundred years ago, all seem. a to be written in the same Code, handwriting. The next September 9in the sequence is justa few days away, down the street as the crow silently bow their heads, When you go outside to see what's going Clearing junk out of your attic, you look out the window and notice a large crowd has gathered on both sides of the street. A parade of black cars moves slowly ‘on, the sidewalks are empty and there are no cars in the street - = ti You are spending the night in a motel after a long day of driving. Looking at the tacky wood paneling, itseems that the knot in the wood looks a little like a face. Now that you think about tit looksa lot like a \ face. A face distorted in a scream. The longer you look, the more distinctly you ean see it. And there are dozens upon dozens of knots in the paneling, each one a face twisted by: agony and torment. jAbody is found and the only si ease teen ets peor eeriierertes BITS ti etre M ean arco lm) Beta se rote In the middle of a terrible thunderstorm, a small dark shape is Visible from your window, Despite the pouring rain and the late hour,a crow or raven is perched just within view. It could easily be some sort of statue, except for the ‘occasional twitch of the head as it watches you with one eye, then the other. Closer Observation with binoculars or the like reveals maggots dripping offits wines instead of rain. Running outside to investigate reveals no sign ofits presence - not even remnants ofits grisly shedding...‘You go about your daily life. 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The stare smelled kiiny and bad a jite chill in the air but he felt drawn when he saw the beauty of the mirror; he felt like it called to him, He ‘hung it on the closet door in the upper hallway of his house. As he passed by that night his hallway felt cooler than it should have for the summer night, and he saw ‘the beaten girl in the reflection, though his hall was empty. 1 ‘The reflected! girl stared at him coldly, silently calling for him to follow. Vag TT While, she was a sceptic herself sometimes things become too real to disbelieve. Such was the case when she heard voices y j carried! faintly on the wind. ‘Voices which cried out” You're going the wrong way, Dont come bacle dont go. back to go them...” whenever she walked towards home. 5 J Tt was a long drive through the country to his mother’s house. ‘Why she moved that far into the middle of nowhere always baffled him, but, this being: tthe first time he had gone out to see her, perhaps he would discover what she found so appealing. He had been driving his pick-up for nearly 2 hours now this night, down a Jong straight road which was wooded on both sides, when he passed the gas station and stopped for gas. Foe pet Ble OB, neve. mang the hushed lt eraployee ha granada whole time ‘He went back on the road resumed his drive. An hour and a half later he had seen © nothing but a straight wooded road as far as the eye could see, and he came again upon. a gas station. To ensure he wasn't lost he pulled into the station to be greeted by the same hunched, old, and grinning man, who ensured him he was headed right on his way. RECA os 1 willA friend recommends a book to Reorroe Chae reteset See ee ara eee tee Together with your friends you find When you're done, you decide to read it this voodoo doll on the flea market Pre a eee) ee ea and buy it for a laugh. acetually even better. So, when you're dont enact tones tea eeT Just for the sale of i, you attach your mother's hair to it and pinch the thing with a long needle See Se ars in the forchead. And yes, your mother gets a splitting head ache So you regret what you've done and want to remove the needle. But the puppet is gone. Your r 2: | \ | You get bitten by:some tiny ‘brown spider. Hurts like hel You are casually but the swelling passes soon and scribbling on a pad ‘you have a litle rash, that's all, of paper when suddenly But the rash woo't go away. It's you gasp at growing. And one morning you what your ‘wake from what you think a sweaty subconscious mind bed. But when you loak, you see has written: thatit is all blood. Your blood. The rash has broken open, it has eaten away you slin and you are bleeding out of various places, LEAVE MY BODY +4 NOW!!!They've always told you how lucky you were to have survived that terrible crash two years ago... but lately, oh so frequently, you begin to doubt having been so lucky after all. i You bang and bang against the wall... : You scream to be let out.. You know they can hear you... j You've heard the new baby crying... ‘The new family arrive. Justllike the old family and the one before that... You've heard them making love... ‘You've heard them laugh at the dinner table... They must have heard you banging and screaming... ‘Yelling and pleaing for help... 4 ‘The MUST have heard you... Why don't they free youl?! u. Working at night, you hear a vacuum cleaner down the hallway from you. You don't think about it and continue. Eventually, when you finish, you move to the elevator. You push the down button. You hear footsteps behind you, The door opens, You step in as the person stepsin with you. You push the ground floor. ‘The person pushes a floor below you, but not the ground. You notice that the person's hands are callused and slighily gnarled. Soon enough, the elevator stops. You glance at the floor number as the doors open and the person slips out. You blinkto make sure you're seeing the number right: 13. "See you soon," the person says, using your name, as the door closes. You lookat the panel of floor buttons. 10, 14, 12, 14, 15... 13 isn't sted. You can't stop shivering. COS encom black ink pen, at least it Potomac mcrae 4 You are shaving, when you nick yourself. 100 As you look in the mirror, you realize that the mirror image is moving one-half ‘second behind you.