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booksinpiles · 4 months

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Finished this one. It reminded me so much of Prince of Tides.

#my reading life #completed book #fiction #elements of horror

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kitsune024 · 8 months

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Star Wars & The Mandalorian Fanfiction

The Two-Faced Temple by XrDragonix

Din had felt a sense of dread.

From this, from before, from everyone he seemed to run from- but no, this wasn't running, he told himself, this was a job.

A simple job. A mindless task.

Yet, the sense of dread grew more and more as he approached the temple, weighing him down as if to suffocate him.

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A simple job turns out to be a lot more trouble - oh and The Jedi is back.

Chapters: 5/5

#XrDragonix #ao3 fanfic #mand'alor din djarin #the mandalorian #Force-Sensitive Din Djarin #haunting #elements of horror #can be taken as dinluke #din fanfic #ghosts #din djarin #luke skywalker #completed fic #star wars

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gayphoenixforce · 1 year

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I hate the dog-ification of werewolves >:( I by making them happy dumbos it misses the best part of transformative monstrosity: repression. If you aren't afraid of the beast within what's the fucking point. It's the big bad wolf lurking on moonlit nights it's not your golden retriever in the park at noon. Justice for repression!! Justice for the beast within!! Justice for the fear of who you could be if you really let loose! Is the monster your true self? Does the thrill of the wild outweigh the guilt that comes in the light of day, when there's mud on your feet and blood on your hands? What does it mean that you crave that which disgusts you, that the wolf isn't just something you become, it's something you always were

#werewolves #its not that there cant be silly werewolves its just that it lacks narratove oomph without some element of fear!#vampires are still seductive when they get made goofy #fundamentals of horror tropes in monsters should survive when the monster leaves horror

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gauntletqueen · 19 days

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When a non-horror game has a horror section, I often find it a little more effective or memorable than a full-on horror title's horror, in a way. I think that's because, for characters in fiction, they usually don't know they're about to experience a horror story, so they aren't mentally prepared at all. As the audience, we know that when we boot up Silent Hill, we're gonna see some scary stuff and can mentally prepare accordingly. But when some innocuous children's platformer or RPG or whatever suddenly throws genuine horror elements at me, I'm taken out of my comfort zone much more roughly since I don't expect it at all. I think that's neat :>

#Fallout has some great examples of this #A Hat in Time and Rayman as well #the Zelda series of course #One of the most fun uses of this trope to me is in games with sidequests #Where you're send to some location that might be kinda suspicious #maybe sent to get an item or look for someone who got lost #and Oops! The places is Haunted by Actual Ghosts!#An until now unknown element of this world!#That's so fun #you get to feel just like some investigative journalist or whatever from a horror story #who has no idea what they're about to get into

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katabay · 1 month

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desmond & friends modern day assassin sequences…..I miss you……..

#specifying ‘and friends’ because I hate William Miles with my whole heart and he is not included in this sentiment #anyway vaguely this is nyc so the cops are probably wasting taxpayer money by fucking around in the subway #komiks tag #assassins creed #shaun hastings #desmond miles #this is almostttttttttttt shaundes #but I didn’t continue the dialogue far enough to make it really flirty. There’s a hint of flirting happening.#someday I’ll have to actually do a longer form fan comic to land my favorite ship AND my favorite narrative elements in the same #go (the horror and dialogues on free will and what we owe each other past/present/future & also what failure means AND-)#this ties into my second favorite relationship dynamic: clay and desmond. obvious. clay might live in my head rent free a little more than #Desmond does because that end of game reveal in AC1 is a top 10 games experience to me and I think about it all the time #ANYWAY IM OFF TOPIC NOW. desmond picks up snacks at a bodega on his way back

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melaniem54 · 2 years

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Review: The Gangster (Magic and Steam #2) by C. S. Poe

Rating: 4.5🌈 Special Agent Gillian Hamilton, healed from the events that occurred in The Engineer, is back home in New York City. And he’s anticipating a very special New Year’s Eve celebration if everything goes smoothly. But this is Gillian , so no. He’s actually not healed yet, not completely and hasn’t said anything. His feelings about his reunion are complicated by his job, the need to…

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#@cs_poe #A MelanieM Review #author C.S. Poe #elements of horror #fantasy #historic adventure #historical mystery #LGBTGIA steampunk romance #LGBTQIA steampunk adventure #ptsd #Review: The Gangster (Magic and Steam 2) by C. S. Poe #Scattered Thoughts Highly Recommended #steampunk

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ex0skeletal-undead · 6 months

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La Calavera Catrina/La Santa Muerte by Iren Horrors

This artist on Instagram

#art #illustration #digital art #dark art #horror #macabre #fantasy #character design #folklore #mythology #birds #death #owl #reaper #angel of death #santa muerte #day of the dead #la catrina #the artist said they used elements from la catrina and santa muerte for this so it's a mashup

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inamindfarfaraway · 1 month

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I love how Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse said “Anyone can be Spider-Man”. I love how it inspired everyone to imagine their own Spider-People, saving the day in their own universes, with all kinds of cool, interesting personalities and aesthetics and mutations and life stories and relationships. We all put pieces of our soul into these homemade heroes. We had fun. We found community. And then Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse said, “Wow, great job! You’ve really taken our message to heart. Well, get ready for even more of everything you liked from the first movie and a new message to complement the first. Anyone can be Spider-Man… and anyone can be pulled into a cult.”

So now we all have to contemplate whether our lovingly crafted heroes would ever be on Team Mandatory Trauma Because Martyr Complex or not and why.

#i for one made a second spider-person (diving belle) right after watching atsv #who IS on team mandatory trauma for reasons that make sense given her moral code and its context #her world has eldritch horror elements that give some of her enemies a sharper edge #and she has had to use lethal force #in a ‘stays true to her strict morality based around compassion nonetheless’ way like wonder woman #she’s used to tough utilitarian decisions #she’s learned that no hero can save everyone from intensely traumatic brushes with mind-breaking corruptive power #so when miguel gave his big speech she was ‘yeah okay. i get it. sometimes shit just happens’#it was actually very enjoyable going through the character creation process #from the starting point of ‘WOULD chase miles and restrain him by force’#and then working toward ‘otherwise a genuinely good person and superhero who could be the star of her own series’#atsv #spider man across the spider verse #across the spiderverse #spider-verse #smatsv #sm: atsv #spiderverse #spidersona

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super-paper · 16 days

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The rest is confetti.

(My Hero Academia x The Haunting of Hill House)

Had a particularly violent revelation about what AFOhouse reminds me of a couple days ago and decided I had to make this.

#Nell's parting speech will forever be one of my top ten moments in fiction so I couldn't resist #anyway i hope Horikoshi gets to write a horror manga at his own pace in the future because it's clearly his element #my hero academia #shimura tenko #shigaraki tomura #long post #all for one #the haunting of hill house

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talesfromthecrypts · 1 year

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make me choose: @meduseld asked Gothic Horror or Sci-fi Horror?

Vampyr (1932)

Interview With the Vampire (1994)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Crimson Peak (2015)

The Orphanage (2007)

The Church (1989)

The Uninvited (1944)

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

#filmedit #horroredit #horror #usergiles #userscary #mygifs #make me choose #actually a fascinating question because its in really simplified terms:#gothic has elements of fear of the past and sci-fi has elements of fear of the future #so like partners really

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lamuliz · 1 year

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"Ending the Parable" (1/?) An interactive fan comic about Stanley setting himself free.

#the stanley parable #stanley parable #stanley #comic #comics #angst #maybe horror elements #a lot of violence #and a lot of tears #or maybe just clutching the chest and screaming #either way pain #hopefully!#im excited to finish this #TSPUD Ending the Parable AU

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karmathenightowl · 2 months

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Here's how I imagine Lady Elizabeth Godwin when she was alive compared to her reanimated self. I was inspired by MANY different visual ideas and concepts like the original Frankenstein book, late 1880s strongwomen, and 1890s fashion.

Here was my aesthetic mood board!

Since the og Frankenstein book describes the flesh of the creature to be yellow and translucent, rather than the popular green flesh seen in most film adaptations, I applied the former to Godwin's flesh of her head. Plus I wanted to really go for that corpse like appearance, particularly with the hollowness of her eyes.

The outfit she wore on the night of her passing was inspired by late 1880s bustle dresses. I saw that the og book of Bram Stoker's Dracula is set in an unspecified year of the mid 1890s, so I had an idea to make her reanimated self reflect the clothing/dresses of that era. Like having her upper part be a balloon sleeve dress with a blouse, and the lower part being a scarp of fabric from a late 1800s Balayeuse. I mentioned in my first character designs for the main pcs that when Godwin asked Igor for clothes, I imagined he made an outfit for her based on scraps he had in Frankenstein's lab. This also included chainmail above the blouse and under the dress coat based off of a Victorian Burlesque outfit. Godwin's gotta protect her new body somehow haha

This last part is just me rambling at this point but I thought this was fun to include. The two women flexing are Josephine Schauer Blatt aka Minerva, and Laverie Vallee aka Charmion (right). They were both strongwomen in the late 1880s, with Minerva having great talent in weightlifting and professional wrestling, while Charmion also performed in vaudeville trapeze. Just a fun little discovery I came across when looking up muscular build ideas for Godwin based on Justin's description :)

#also idk if this was intentional by Justin #but I find it funny how Godwin's demise parallels Elizabeth's from Frankenhooker just minus the hooker element #taz vs dracula #lady godwin #the adventure zone #taz versus dracula #nightowldraws #horror #character design #sketchbook #procreate

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kisaraslover · 4 months

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