Title: Occulta Daemonia
Description: Five friends escape to a remote mountain resort for a weekend away from real life. The hike is planned, the rooms are booked, and the nights promise nothing more dangerous than drinks, laughter, and old memories.

Until they borrow a strange board game from the reception.

The rules are simple.
The candle must stay lit.
Questions must concern the future.
And every Favor must be paid.

What begins as a harmless distraction soon twists into something they cannot walk away from. The mountain grows colder. The forest grows silent. And one by one, the group discovers the price of asking the wrong question.

By morning, only one will remember.
And he will wish he didn’t.

Some games demand more than luck.
Some favors cannot be returned.
Subjects: Horror, Short story, Occult fiction, Fiction, psychological
Places: Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland)
Time periods: 2022