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Perfect Blue.
Not for the conventional murder or bad things happening, but the whole structure of not knowing what’s real and what is just an illusion and not knowing how much time has passed.
The stupid zombies in Thief. Just the first one you encounter. It’s lying on the ground with flies flying above it. And every time you go near it it gives out this loud awful moan. I hate it!
But the game is too good not to play.
Signalis is a great game with a story that stuck with me for weeks. I wouldn’t say it “terrifies me” but it’s definitely both disturbing and heart wrenching.
GREAT game!
Event Horizon is still mildly terrifying 25y later. Sunshine was pretty bananas too. Shout out to Alastair Reynolds Inhibitor series of books as well.
One of my favorites short sci-fi stories ever.
Longer than you think! Chilled me.
The segment in the original Creepshow where Stephen King is transformed into a plant.
Also The Fly.
That monkey in the teleporter…
Supersize Me
In 2003 I watched the Exorcist movie that came out. It freaked me out so much my pupils dilated enormously like I was tripping, and then they stayed dilated for three days afterward.
I couldn’t be alone at night for over a week so my girlfriend came and stayed with me to keep the monsters away.
Inescapable fate from ‘Final Destination.’
Buddy Holly and Carole Lombard both decided to get in a plane at the last minute. Some tourist decided to go to the World Trade Center instead of the Metropolitan Museum. If you start thinking about it, it can drive you crazy.
Remember the Oklahoma City bombing? My uncle is a retired lawyer in OKC, so he was in that building frequently when it was still standing. If memory serves, it still blew out the windows in his office.
For me it has always been the The Enigma of Amigara Fault ever since I read it.
It’s just so unsettling to me I don’t know why.
I love Junji Ito so much. That’s not even his most terrifying story, just his most popular. Though I’m not complaining, it’s a great story.
The Netflix show is actually pretty great if you haven’t watched it. Though the first episode is the weakest.
Fwiw, I’m an artist and get a lot of inspiration from his works
The Bible
Soma
Wildbow has written some freaks doing freaky shit. Like, proper body horror.
One that I really like is Dear David by Adam Ellis. And yeah yeah, I know that he’s going for the usual “true ghost story” marketing shtick or whatever, but these stories that don’t just use cheap jumpscares and instead build a sense of constant threat and impending doom are the ones that make it harder for me to sleep at night.
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Contingency, from Local58
Emergency broadcasts of any sort, fictitious or no, already put me on edge, but the idea of the US government having one ready to go, specifically to order people to commit suicide to spite some kind of existential threat, is especially chilling.
Of course it’s Straub.
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