The Hollow Within

There is a place where fear has weight, where darkness does not hide but waits, patient and insatiable. For Mara Kline, a woman broken by grief and guilt, inheriting her estranged grandmother's decrepit estate seems like an escape. But the house is not a refuge - it is a predator.

From the moment she steps inside, Mara is consumed by a creeping dread: floors that shift beneath her feet, walls that pulse as if alive, and mirrors that do not reflect her, but her deepest terrors. Whispering voices claw at her mind, speaking truths she never wanted to know, twisting memory and reality until she can no longer tell which horrors are hers, and which belong to the house.

As nights bleed into endless cycles of torment, Mara discovers that the mansion feeds on the suffering of its occupants, rewriting their bodies, minds, and souls into grotesque reflections of its hunger. Every door she opens is a choice between despair and madness; every shadow may conceal a thing that was once human but is now something far worse.

In this story, terror is intimate and unrelenting - a creeping poison in the mind, a darkness that lingers in the corners of every thought. The Hollow Within is a tale where survival is never guaranteed, and the line between victim and monster is blurred until it disappears entirely.