Phobic An Exploration of Fear | Session One

From the private files of Madame Nocturna

Welcome, my trembling curiosities, to Phobic! An Exploration of Fear: Session One - a most unconventional course of treatment. Consider this volume not a collection of stories, but a clinical study in exquisite unraveling, where the instruments of healing hum with far older appetites.

Here, fear is the physician. Therapy sessions fracture into rituals. Recovery rooms blossom into sanctuaries of infection. The body, the mind, the soul, each one a specimen ripe for dissection beneath the flickering light of scientific mercy.

Nine patients. Nine descents. You will meet them all as they surrender to the ailments that wear their own reflections: parasites that dream in human skin, voices transmitted through static veins, machines that crave consciousness more tender than code. And somewhere between diagnosis and delusion, you may come to realize that the cure was never meant for you.

I have observed each case personally, of course. Such fascinating minds, they screamed such beautiful data. Should you begin to feel the walls of your own reality soften while reading, do not panic. It simply means the therapy is working.

Now… inhale. Exhale. Turn the page.

Let us begin your session.

- Madame Nocturna, Licensed in the Healing Arts of Horror