One of the most persistent ghost stories and urban legends is that of The Maiden. Known also as Bloody Mary, the Weeping Woman, the Grey Lady, the Woman in Black and She-Who-Takes, her's is a story with many variations. Ever consistent, however are the following details: In life, she possessed ravishing beauty, her death involved betrayl at the hands of her lover and another woman, and anyone who enters a darkened room alone, and stands before a mirror, then chants her name thrice shall invoke her murderous wrath.
While versions of such punish differ with each take on her tale, most commonly she is said to tear the eyes from those who see her, especailly pretty young girls, whom remind her of her lover's betrayl. Nearly every version of her attacks involve a great deal of blood.

While once she was indeed a mere urban legend (though quite possibly inspired by a strain or two of truth), The Maiden is now an all-too-real entity of terrifying and deadly power, having been birthed by the mass subconscious via the Nightmare Storm as one of the horrorific Manifest Fears. While not thought to be as powerful or mysterious as The Faceless, or as visceral and sadistic as The Rake, the Maiden is by far the most mobile, most known of the Manifest Fears (indeed she is a household name while her brothers are know by few outside their victims) and has perhaps the highest body count, due to the thousands of curious young people invoking her name a day (this of course bars that of the swarm-creatures, The Unending Hands as of course, there are billions more of them then there is of her). While The Maiden is sure only to claim a few of these daily so as not to prove her own existence to the world, she still rakes in enough to well exceed the count brought in by the other Manifests.

The Maiden has no known definitive weaknesses, but it is heavily believed that she cannot cross over salt or moving water and that shattering a mirror that she appears to you in, before she can strike, will blind you to her indefinitely.