Zombie Studios’ procedurally generated horror game Daylight has been pretty quiet lately, probably because it’s still a ways off and its developer has been too busy making it awesomely terrifying to share any news with us. Today, that changes, as publisher Atlus has decided to share a bit of the game’s back story. It’s dark, though I wouldn’t expect anything less from it.

Learn all about the grim history of Daylight’s Mid Island Bay Hospital after the break.

1983 – Present Day
Daylight’s main character, Sarah Gwynn wakes up in the lobby of Mid Island Bay Hospital, but we don’t know a lot about the history of Mid Island. Prior to present day, the last major interaction with Mid Island was nearly 30 years ago. In the early ’80s, Mid Island Bay Hospital was a major interest to the G&C Investments Corp, who had designs on renovating the old hospital and turning it into a high-end hospice catering to the wealthy.

1939-1948
In the late ’30s, a tourist steamboat caught fire and capsized off the coast of New Kipling, drowning more than 1,000 passengers. The bodies of the victims washed up on the shores of Mid Island, and the hospital was quickly converted into a makeshift morgue to handle all the corpses. The remaining survivors of the shipwreck were treated at MIBH, but with limited resources and growing costs, the MIBH was unable to recover from the specter of a tragedy of that magnitude. The hospital closed its doors abruptly one day in 1948.