Familiar Nightmare

Write about a character that begins as utterly ordinary, but slowly starts showing utterly terrifying traits.

Taking the familiar and twisting it into something dreadful is a staple of horrifying storytelling. With this prompt, explore how your ordinary character becomes increasingly scary — do they transform physically, or is it their actions that change? How does this escalation affect the other characters, and how do they respond?

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