Hand-Hook Monster

Be careful when you hunt, stay out of sight.

No matter how much those tourists ask for a bite.

Don’t let anyone know that you’re a Screamer.

Beware the death sentence of the hook-hand monster.

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Unnatural, inhuman, unliving yet not undead.

It’s a machine made to kill with a gas mask for a head.

A garbled voice that will forever haunt your dreams.

And when you see that hook, you’ll be the one who screams.

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A concussive ringing in your ear.

You’ll find you’re paralyzed with fear.

An empty shell of a person it once was.

I barely made it out alive, and that’s because

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The hand-hook monster can’t kill an Incorporeal.

We’re the only Screamers that are truly immortal.

But that was back then, who knows how strong it is now.

It never rests, always hunting, in multiple places at once. How?

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Like I said, its splintered soul never rests.

It patrols the city, seeking vengeance

Against all creatures who kill in cold blood.

Human or Screamer, evil or good.