Tales of the Institute: Echoes from Merrywood
Hidden deep in the woods, behind fences no one remembers building, stands a place known only as The Institute. To the public, it is a whisper - a rumor of a research facility that specializes in unusual sciences and forgotten histories. To those who know better, it is the beating heart of every horror that creeps into the corners of our world.
In Tales of the Institute, twenty-two chilling stories - now joined by eight newly uncovered files - invite you to explore the shadows between folklore and experiment, dream and waking life. Dolls that remember too much. Towns that vanish beneath floods or snow. Broadcasts that call to you after midnight. Gardens where hands bloom, and dreamscapes where nightmares cross into flesh.
Each story peels back another layer of the Institute's reach: the broken families it haunts, the towns it curses, and the lives it devours in the name of knowledge and power.
Some come willingly. Some are taken. All are changed.
Come closer. The Institute is waiting.