The Collector Inn
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The Collector Inn, with its faded brick facade and shuttered windows that seem to watch the passing shadows, hums with the restless sighs of a hundred forgotten souls, each more desperate than the last. Guests have reported hearing murmurs tumble through the air like whispers of the damned, while their belongings shift and shimmy in the night, as if the very fabric of the building hungered for their fear. Those who dare to stay find a chilling sense of presence wrapped around them like a damp fog, leaving them to wonder if perhaps they are the ones being collected, piece by piece, by the malevolent forces that linger just out of sight.