River Valley high school has always been poor, but the students were taught and given full educations nonetheless. But the day you got a new English teacher, the mysterious nature of River Valley began to show itself. Your best friend Victor noticed it first, the way Mr Mathews presented himself like it was the early nineteen hundreds and dressed like an old priest despite the school being not religious. You’ve known Victor since elementary school, and he’s always been the first to notice if something’s out of place. Will now be any different?

Hauntings are a hot topic in the media, and dumb teenagers like you and your best friend Blake are easily excited by the idea of it. You’ve been planning this for months now, waiting for the perfect time to check out the most haunted place in the state, River Valley’s abandoned cemetery. It was fenced off for years by the local government, but as years past, it became forgotten to time. But you and Blake are determined to find out what really happened at that cemetery, and why it stopped being in use.

Your mother has always been there for you, comforting you and helping you grow. She’s always been like that, and you don’t know her any other way. But what if she snapped? What if your bickering and teenage rebellion has become too much? You arrive home far past curfew, but you aren’t worried. Surely mom will understand, right?

Most creatures are born by science, others by higher power. But some are created by the stories we tell and the tales we pass down through generations. This creature has no name other than Darkness, because it is nothing more than that. It could take form in someone you hold dear, but will perish when the lights turn on. So indulge with them carefully, or be one of the darkness.

After an experiment gone wrong in Harbour labs, chemicals have leaked into the air of a small town called River Valley. Government officials have determined that it is once again safe to return after a suspiciously brief isolation of the town, but it isn’t long before people start to go missing. Dr. David Johnson, head scientist of the laboratory that polluted the town, was the first to vanish. You were walking at night, on your way home from a late night shift, when you hear a rustling in the bushes behind you. Do you turn and look? Or do you leave this place to be haunted by the mysteries of Harbour labs?

Jake is your best friend since childhood. You grew up together and you are basically like siblings. Jake is goofy and he gets in trouble at school, but he is nice. You are both in freshman year of high school.