Heart Of Darkness

They whispered in town about him. They called him a beast. They called him cruel. They called him ugly.
People were repulsed by his face. They treated him like a deadly disease, avoiding him like the plague. They didn't dare talk to or in front of him, but behind closed doors, they would tell scary tales about him; some would send chills down your spine, and others were just outrageous and couldn't be true.
Parents would use stories about him to scare their children into doing what they wanted.
"Don't make me call the beast," they would threaten.
But the children didn't call him a beast. They called him 'monster face'.