One of my favorites short sci-fi stories ever.
Longer you think! Chilled me.
Not sure if this is what you were looking, but this song is a masterpiece of horror manifest through audio. In fact the whole album is a piece of art, troubling and dark but so well crafted.
I thought for sure this was gonna be “Everywhere at the End of Time”.
If you’re not familiar, it’s a 6 hour audio piece that simulates the descent into dementia ending in the complete loss of oneself and eventually death.
Knowing what it is going in, it’s terrifying to listen to.
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And while not quite the same, there’s Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night…
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There was this short sci fi story I think about a lot. I forgot what it’s called but it’s essentially about some kind of particle (it’s physics related) that floats around the universe and has the ability to engulf everything in it’s path or something? The story is about the last few hours on earth when one such particle happens to stumble into our solar system. Ill have to dig it up.
Not to make your fear worse but here’s a great video about strange matter 😃
Great story, thanks for sharing!
Sounds like a rogue black hole
Yes, I just reread it. You’re correct. Can detect them now?
Could also be a strangelet. Theoretical but not fictitious.
The story I am calling out referenced rogue black holes. But this is very interesting!
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.
The fucking needle-in-the-eye part from Dead Space.
Also, Scorn is kinda unsettling.
I can’t figure out how to make a spoiler section in Lemmy so I won’t say much, but the lore that describes some of the transformations in dead space was just so disturbing, still sort of sticks with me.
Scorn is extremely unsettling.
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!
The three body problem/rememberance of earth’s past trilogy keeps me up a night every once in a while.
I could never get past some levels on the Playstation 1 Spiderman game because all the villains aside from Rhino and Mysterio creep me out.
All of them, that’s why I can’t do horror.
The first chapter of “The Ministry of the Future” because it is very likely going to happen soon somewhere on earth.
A wet bulb temperature event that kills thousands
A story 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 give this sense of a constant threat and impending doom are the ones that make it harder for me to sleep at night.
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The segment in the original Creepshow where Stephen King is transformed into a plant.
Also The Fly.
That monkey in the teleporter…
The short-story Dread by Clive Barker.
Go in cold, no spoilers.
Go in cold, no spoilers.
That’s just mean
That is how I read it in Books of Blood volume II.
No prior review or synopsis added to the experience.
“I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream”.
I realize most might just see it as unsettling, but I’ve known someone like AM. Obviously not a giant supercomputer, but with that much hate. With that much blind rage, that everyone around him must suffer for daring to exist. That would happily keep someone alive just to bring them more pain.
As much as I love that story, every time I read it leaves me a little more terrified, looking over my shoulder, waiting until I’m put in my cage because I dared break free, even almost 20 years later.
I’ve read it this year for the first time. It’s fantastic. So short and so powerful.
Ever play the game? It’s a 90s-era click-adventure, and Harlan Ellison himself plays the voice of AM! (It’s quite good!)
It’s currently available on GOG
I actually finally got around to playing it for myself fairly recently! I was actually surprised at just how well they got the discomfort across, it took some genuine talent to bring those scenes to life.
Ugh, when it got to the sarcophagus/elevator segment, it really made my skin crawl! And the “camp”…
That game was really well done!
The Zone from the STALKER games disturbed me for years, but I’m such a grizzled veteran of the Zone now that I enjoy being in it. Night is still a little terrifying, though, and I don’t care to use nightvision. Kills the vibe.
I love the STALKER games, the atmosphere is absolutely top notch. The section where you have to go into the lair of the invisible dudes was terrifying. I remember meeting my first one, before going into the tunnels, and losing half my health in its first attack, I fought it standing on top of a tractor because they couldn’t climb thankfully.
