The Dark Pact of Griswold
In the small, gloomy village of Griswold, nestled deep in the heart of an ancient and foreboding forest, there lived a man of peculiar disposition. A man whose very existence seemed to be shrouded in the most sinister of mysteries. His name was Mortimer Fallow, and he was a recluse, a scholar of the dark and hidden knowledge that man ought to leave untouched. The villagers, stricken with an inexplicable dread, whispered rumors about him, as if the very act of speaking his name would bring forth calamity.
