The Old Town Hotel
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The Old Town Hotel stood shrouded in a perpetual twilight, its weathered beams and cracked plaster whispering secrets of the eight centuries that had passed, secrets that slithered through the night like smoke. Guests often found themselves ensnared in a web of muffled whispers threading their way through dimly lit corridors, and the faint echo of footsteps trailing just behind them, always just out of sight, as shadowy figures melded into the walls, watching with hollow eyes. Many who sought solace here instead found themselves haunted by the feeling of being undeniably, inexorably, accompanied-an unseen presence waiting patiently at the edge of their dreams.