The Tenebrous Fiend
a haiku for the "Haunted Echoes" challenge
howling echoes
light goes out, the dark thickens
cold breath on my neck
“Tenebrous” —meaning dark, shadowy, obscure. From the Latin tenebrae, meaning “deep shadow”,
A "fiend" is born of darkness itself — a demonic, malicious being.
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I feel creepy just thinking about this!
I do find haiku tricky, and trickier yet when you've got so many entries around a similar idea of haunting/spookiness. That last line is a great closer though👏
Eek, that breath. Why can I FEEL it?
- Oh that hand looks so creepy. It was so creepy I thought her fingers were less than five lol. 🐺Love the title. I like seeing those T's almost close together. - Damn. The dark got darker. This scene was all the way cursed from the start with the howling echos. 🐺But then the cold breath on the neck. I don't think I could cope. Love my neck too much to have it exposed like this. To a demonic malicious being. I know tonight it will be there while I sleep. And this is deeply unsettling for me to think about. Fantastic work as always, Imola 🤗 ❤️ 🖤
Thats certainly how howling feel like a cold breath on our neck that keep echoing in our head
That’s wonderfully eerie, it captures that instant when fear becomes physical. Also, thanks for teaching me a new word!
I would just die if that happened to me hahahahaha. Loved this!
That sent shivers down my spine!
Chilling, just chilling to read. Chills going up and down my back.
Very creepy 🤗