Got it—horror it is! Here’s the beginning of a chilling story for you:
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### *Whispers in the Hollow*
The small, forgotten town of Blackthorn Hollow lay shrouded in perpetual mist. Hidden deep within the forest, it was a place most people avoided—a dot on the map with more ghost stories than living souls.
Emily Carter didn’t believe in ghost stories. A seasoned journalist with a nose for sensational headlines, she’d come to the Hollow on assignment: uncover the truth behind the legend of the *Hollowman*, a phantom said to wander the woods, luring the lost with haunting whispers.
Armed with her recorder, flashlight, and an old map, Emily ventured into the forest as the sun dipped below the horizon. The trees were ancient, their twisted roots snaking across the forest floor like grasping hands. Somewhere in the distance, a crow cawed, its sound sharp and lonely in the thick silence.
“Just a story,” Emily muttered to herself, her breath clouding in the cold. “It’s all just—”
A whisper.
Faint and barely discernible, it brushed against her ear like a soft exhale. She froze, her flashlight trembling as she scanned the trees.
“Hello?” she called, the word swallowed by the dense fog.
The whisper came again, closer this time. A single word, stretched and warped: *Emily.*
Her blood ran cold. She hadn’t told anyone she was coming here, hadn’t mentioned her name to a soul in Blackthorn. Her heart pounded as the whispers grew louder, overlapping, an eerie symphony that seemed to come from everywhere at once.
Desperate to escape, she turned and stumbled back the way she’d come—but the forest had changed. The familiar trail was gone, replaced by dense thickets and shadows that seemed to shift as she moved.
Then she saw it.
In the distance, barely visible through the mist, stood a figure. Tall and impossibly thin, its limbs were too long, its head tilted at an unnatural angle. It didn’t move, didn’t breathe, but Emily could feel its gaze piercing through her.
The whispers stopped.
And then, in the silence, the figure took a step toward her.
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