CROSS-SECTION OF A CHILDHOOD FEAR

Too Small for a World Built to Devour You.

A three-tier descent into the Nowhere—where floorboards creak beneath bare feet, brass lighters barely pierce the damp, and grotesque adults tower over the children hiding beneath the floorboards.

DEPTH 01 // SUBMERGED IRON VESSEL Six inside The Maw
NIGHTMARES I • THE MAW

The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat

In the bilge of an iron vessel that surfaces once a year to gorge its bloated passengers, a nine-year-old girl named Six wakes from a dream of a masked geisha. With only a thumb-sized Zippo lighter, she climbs from the leech-infested prison to the Lady's quarters—driven by a gnawing hunger that hollow meat cannot satisfy.

Enter Nightmares I →
SIGNAL 02 // BROADCAST FREQUENCY Mono and Six in The Pale City
NIGHTMARES II • THE PALE CITY

The Boy in the Paper Bag

Across a rain-slicked metropolis warped by the hum of the Signal Tower, Mono hides his face behind folded brown paper. Joined by Six, he slips past the faceless Viewers glued to cathode-ray tubes—unaware that the Thin Man waiting inside the television screen is already part of his own reflection.

Enter Nightmares II →
MIRAGE 03 // NECROPOLIS & CARNIVAL Low and Alone in The Spiral
NIGHTMARES III • THE SPIRAL

Two Masks Against the Dust

Adrift in the Spiral—a cluster of decaying delusions stitched together by mirrors—Low and Alone rely on a bow and a heavy iron wrench to survive. From the petrifying gaze of the Monster Baby in the buried Necropolis to the wet gears of the Candy Factory, neither child can cross the threshold alone.

Enter Nightmares III →