brush strokes, illustration, digital art, painting, 
junji ito illustration, 
In a desolate seaside village shrouded in perpetual mist, an ancient lighthouse stands as a sentinel against the dark ocean. Its rusted metal frame creaks with every gust of wind, casting eerie shadows that seem to flicker with a life of their own. Inside, the staircase winds endlessly upward, each step groaning underfoot as if resisting the ascent. At the pinnacle, a lone figure tends to the light, their face hidden beneath a tattered hood. The beam sweeps across the horizon, revealing glimpses of spectral ships that vanish as quickly as they appear, leaving behind an unsettling silence broken only by the mournful cry of seabirds. As night falls, the lighthouse's beacon pulses with an otherworldly glow, drawing lost souls towards its haunting embrace, trapped in a cycle of eternal vigilance and unseen terrors that lurk beneath the waves.