📖 Genre: Psychological Thriller / Horror The Rainfall Room It rained so hard that even the trees looked like they were drowning. Arav stood at the edge of the narrow road, his jacket soaked through, the hood of his backpack heavy with water. The town, if it could be called that, was more of a scattered memory than a settlement. Five or six wooden buildings slumped against the hillside, fog coiling around them like breath. The sky had been leaking for three days without pause. He had booked the room online. Mountain View Lodge. It had two reviews, both from 2015. One said, “Remote and peaceful.” The other said nothing—just one star and a photo of a foggy window. The caretaker met him at the door with a lantern. “You came in this rain?” the man asked, as if surprised Arav hadn’t drowned. “I had to get away,” Arav replied, his voice swallowed by the storm behind him. The caretaker didn’t ask anything more. The lobby smelled like old paper and paraffin. The wooden floor groaned with every...