Some stalls in the market close for normal reasons — rising rent, lost inventory, old age. But nobody ever reopens Vendor 54. Behind that gate was a butcher who didn’t sell meat, and the things he left behind were never fully cleared.

This grounded horror story explores the kind of violence that doesn’t need folklore to be terrifying — the kind that hides in plain sight.

From Sleeping Horror. Original folklore, survival, and psychological horror stories released every few days.