AKA: Fireco Varmint, Fire Co. Monster He heard it every night, felt the tremor of its proximity—the creature’s rough, lengthy body under his house, scraping against the foundation before settling into silence, stillness. The behemoth lay just below his bedroom, so near he could hear the irregular snap of its unseen maw: ‘clack’, ‘ka-lack.’ There it taunted him with a one-note thrum, a sound so low he had to focus to hear it. Then, as always, a nightmarish scene began. Forms of a shadowy creature with a pointed head and snake-like body plagued his walls; it moved like a living being, swimming in curving patterns, snapping the heads off of other figures that ran across the wallpapered backdrop. Time feeling sluggish, the shadow took a more concrete form, turning towards him and off the wall, leveling to allows its empty eyes to meet his own. Compelled to run and fight, yet lulled into a stupor, he watched, listened, and lay as the beast strangled him, mocked him, and consumed his sanity. - West…