Tragedy Ever After - Carach Angren

She opens her eyes

Her face is covered in blood

She appears to be surrounded by twisted trees

In this abysmal dream

Under a toxic blood red sky

Ghostly clouds quickly passing by

«Please!

Can someone tell me

This place wherein I dwell-

Where does it reside between heaven and hell?

Am i dead?»

«Am I dead?»

But her questions merely echo away into nothingness

There are voices calling her name

From the blackest corners of this phantasmal void

«Gretel, join us!

Join us!

Join us in death.»

Malevolent entities shaped and twisted in hideous ways

No mind of human kind could have architected such an infernal place

Under a toxic blood red sky

Ghostly clouds quickly passing by

«Please!

Can someone set me free!

I’m being held in a nightmare

I’m kept in purgatory!»

Finally she stumbles on this trail

Made of candy

Like a hungry bird feeding on crumbs of bread

Consuming them one by one

She hopes this is the trail of delicacies leads towards

A better place ahead

But no, it lead her further and further into darkness

It reeks on burning flesh

Then the trail suddenly ends

There’s a dark presence lurking in the shadows

It just entered purgatory

Because the body was cauterized within the fires of reality

The spectral corpse of the clown is heavily burned

Her brother’s murderer has returned…

A stifling feeling when his charred hands take hold to her

She cannot move

She cannot defend herself

When will this suffocating dream finally end?

The stench of burnt flesh becomes the smell of alcohol

And when her bastard father shuts the door behind him

She realizes: It was just a dream

The real nightmare continues in reality

There’s no place like home

There’s no place…

Like home…