Aadhi Raat

Aadhi Raat: an animated Indian horror night, in English, Hindi and Gujarati. You scroll through the scenes (blood moon and diyas, the crossroads offering, the peepal tree, your name being called, the mirror, backward footprints, a jump scare, Nani's rules) while your cursor or finger is a diya lighting the dark. It ends with a form where visitors can send in their own Kali Chaudas stories (pranks, real experiences, stories they heard).

• index.html is the whole site (no build step).
• Ghost images in assets/art/ were made with an AI image generator. The footer credits say so; keep that disclosure. Everything else is drawn in code.
• Sound is generated in the browser by default. To use real recordings instead, put MP3 files in assets/audio/ and list their names in assets/audio/manifest.json, e.g. ["scream", "howl"]. Supported names: scream, howl, wind, whisper, bells, owl, breath, heartbeat, hum, thunder, crack. Use CC0 or properly licensed files and credit them.
• stories.json holds the stories that have been approved for the public story wall. Submissions are never published automatically.

Run locally:

python3 -m http.server 8000

Theme music

The site plays assets/audio/theme.mp4 (or theme.mp3 / theme.m4a) on the opening screens if the file exists, and lowers it once the stories start. No theme file is committed here; add your own.

Story submissions (PHP)

• api/stories.php receives the form and saves each story to data/pending/ (max 5 per hour per visitor). Nothing goes public automatically.
• admin.php is your private page to Publish, Delete or Remove from site. Published stories are written to stories.json, which the site reads.
• First visit to admin.php walks you through setting a password; it ends with creating data/config.php in Hostinger's File Manager. That file is never committed.
• data/ and assets/incoming/ are blocked from the web by .htaccess.

Deploying on Hostinger

1. hPanel → Domains → Subdomains: create the subdomain. If the domain's DNS is managed somewhere else, add an A record for the subdomain pointing to the server IP shown in hPanel (Websites → Dashboard → Plan details / DNS).
2. hPanel → Advanced → Git: repository [email protected]:dspce28/horror.git, branch claude/stoic-archimedes-axihrk, install path = the subdomain's folder. Because the repo is private, copy the SSH key hPanel shows into GitHub → repo Settings → Deploy keys (read-only). Or upload a ZIP of the repo through File Manager and extract it in the subdomain folder.
3. hPanel → Security → SSL: install the free SSL certificate for the subdomain.
4. Open https://<subdomain>/admin.php and set your password.
5. Optional: put your theme track at assets/audio/theme.mp4.