Outside

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He flicks a cigarette between his lips and canters down the grimy stairs, passing streaks of graffiti on mouldy white tile, kicking aside stray pages of newspaper and empty cans.

Samara wondered: what came first?

The monster?

Or its world?

In the golden age of cinema, the monsters lurked in gothic castles in faraway lands, or the deepest depths for only the brave or foolish to venture. Decades later, bizarre creatures invaded from the stars in black and white science fiction shlock. Hackers and slashers would deliver their retribution among the parties of summer camps and dormitories of the seventies and eighties. Simple creatures would, of course, dine on the simple folk, while the more articulate beasts would stalk the educated, ensuring the challenges of their philosophies were not to be squandered. The mutant freaks hid in the deserts and sewers, sites of human refuse. Demons coveted the innocence of young girls.

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