A shiver ran down my spine as I arrived in this dreary village.
Decrepit houses of rotting wood displayed broken windows and doors that groaned as they opened.
The few inhabitants who wandered the streets looked ghostly: spectral faces, sunken eyes and vacant stares.
-We have arrived --she murmured in a deadpan voice before stepping out of the taxi without further explanation.
I watched her walk away, melting into the thickening shadows.
Something wasn't right.
Suddenly, everything was plunged into complete darkness.
An icy cold paralysed me.
I was no longer sure of getting out of there alive.