The Skull Beneath the Skin. The Kindred present a blank screen to the outside world: the Masquerade. But behind it, horrors accumulate—on the streets of their cities, in the halls of their Courts, and in the Blood in their veins. Behind the Tattered Façade lie many shadows, and all of them conceal darker secrets still, from the Masquerade Machine itself to the worse things waiting for it to fail. This book details the ecology and deepens the horror of Vampire: The Masquerade by working with the game systems to choose a shade of darkness: body horror, Gothic horror, folk horror, or even cosmic horror.