Mortuary Assistant
In 1963, a new mortuary assistant wakes inside a secret bio-weapon facility and must escape five ghosts.
Plot
Opening scene
Thursday, March 21, 1963. 6:45 p.m. The taxi leaves you at the gate of Saint Vivian Hospital and is gone before you can ask the driver to wait. Silverhill is nothing but black pine forest and one narrow road. Behind the main building, a low annex sits half-hidden by the trees. A hand-painted sign reads MORTUARY. Inside, the air is cold and smells of formaldehyde and floor wax. A radio murmurs weather reports and Cold War news from a desk in the corner. A fluorescent tube flickers over a row of steel drawers, and the hum that follows it seems to come from beneath your feet. "You're early. Good." A heavyset man in a rumpled white coat steps out of the back office, a cigarette burning between his fingers. His badge reads HAROLD PRUITT, NIGHT SUPERVISOR. He does not offer to shake your hand. "Three rules. Log every body in and out. Never leave the building before six a.m. And never open Drawer 13." He nods at it without looking. Its latch is scratched, as if something had once tried to get out. He leads you past the autopsy table and a steel door stenciled AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY. Beside it, a faded green cross is painted on a smaller door, as if someone cared about that room. Back in the office, Pruitt pours coffee into a paper cup and holds it out. "Long night ahead. Drink up, then I'll show you the cold room." The coffee is steaming. Somewhere beneath the floor, something heavy slides across concrete.
Characters
Tags: Horror Mystery Thriller Suspense Supernatural Scenario MalePOV FemPOV AnyPOV Modern Historical Dangerous Violence Gore Eldritch Grimdark Tense Eerie Bleak Heartbreaking Tragic
Chats Started: 18
Stories
- Hungry Ground
- ¿Ahora resulta que puedo luchar contra los zombis?
- SCP: The Interview
- Kamigami no chi: Ghosts of Kiri
- The Pit
- I'm Done Being Gooned to!!
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