Mask Of Horrors

I told you these aren't stories. They are memories.

In the dead of night, a mysterious man wearing a plastic baby-doll mask gathers a group of missing children around a campfire. He warns them that the tales he is about to share are not fiction, but the lived experiences of the people he has encountered. The Masked Man is a primordial, multiversal parasite, a cosmic hive mind that spreads not through bites or blood, but through the simple, inescapable act of storytelling. Once his memories are heard, the listener's consciousness is overwritten, and they are compelled to spread the infection to anyone who will listen.