Chills, Thrills and Spills: A Horror Thread

Did I ever recommend The Guinea Pig Girl here? Because if not that is a really lovely short story by Thana Niveau. Plot is a guy gets a little bit too attached a series of guro film knockoffs of the Guinea Pig franchise. It's a love story and a horror story! The best sort of horror!

 

ahaha oh man, I'm listening to the Black Tapes podcast and I'm so not used to podcasts with binaural audio, it's weird :D

 

!!!!i just started season two. i've never binged a podcast so fast, even when I had a ridiculously long commute that i spent listening to podcasts

what an excellent podcast

 

I dunno how fast I'll finish it, since audio horror is 2spooky4me.

I can read oodles and oodles of creepypasta (although even mediocre creepypasta gets me jittery and anxious), but an out-loud or timed* aspect can make me actually have to stop for a bit.

*like those chatlog-horror stories where you press space and it says (typing...) for a while and then shows you the message. What's that one about Annie?

 

http://storiesforyourscreen.com/annie96-is-typing/

 

idk, it actually isn't that scary to me - i've listened to it mostly while alone in the house and it's just fascinating. I have a way better tolerance for horror than i did even a year ago, but still. Definitely not as terrifying as a lot of the Pseudopod stories are

 

@blue just checking, does annie is typing have jumpscares? it looks like something i'd be interested in but i can't handle jumpscares.

 

It doesn't have any audio or picture jump scares, nope. Sometimes there's a pause for a "[whoever] is typing" message and then the message comes up, but nothing other than messages shows up.

I can't handle jump scares either X)

 

@Bel Capricorn the amount something creeps me out seems to be only sort of related to how actually-well-written-and-scary it is; for example, a few years ago I got scared as fuck by the face-in-space episode of the X Files, which is objectively terrible.

 

fair.

side note, season 1 was much better; season 2 is kind of eh so far

 

bites my knuckles in distress over The Black Tapes being on a semi-in character hiatus until may. I love this podcast so MUCH and I want them to continue going (even if it makes sense in the context of the story...and probably in the IRL context)

I'm such a sucker for this particular podcast if only because it's done alarmingly well and made me Incredibly paranoid on more than one occasion

Spoiler: possible spoilers for the first/second season?

For that I mean specifically the Unsound, which despite my best efforts the show trolled me into hearing it and even though it's FULLY FICTIONAL I'm still unreasonably worried about dying in a few months time. There was also that one demon's name that, thankfully, my brain hasn't allowed me to remember lest I summon it. Thanks black tapes, unironically.

I've also been listening to Alice Isn't Dead, and that's just wonderful too. As someone who had a parent who was a truck driver for a few years, listening to this podcast gives me an intense sense of nostalgia. And also the shivers, because wowie I have seen creepy shit in my travels across Nothing, America, and none of the stuff that happens in the podcast seems like stuff that COULDN'T ever happen. I love it.

 

Strand is such a jerk; I'm hype for bad things to happen to him : P

(typically I'm on the side of the Science Character in science-and-paranormal duos! and I agree with a lot of what he says! but Alex is so nice! and ofc I do like him, but there's a large overlap between characters I like and characters I'd like to get punched)

 

@blue oh my god, same. strand is the BIGGEST JERK IN THE UNIVERSE and also the most suspicious and it's great

ive never wanted to punch a scientific logic character so much in my life

 

same - wait, no, newt geiszler exists

(<333 i love newt.)

 

Something something Baudelaire

I'm so mad that my theory seems to not be viable anymore

 

"Would you mind talking about what happened with your wife?"
(five second pause) "...Not at all."

 

i feel bad for strand, he's trying too hard

 

Has anyone else been listening to Tanis? The cabin in episode 2 sounds a hell of a lot like the House from House of Leaves

 

Spoiler: spoilerz

"she was wearing Catherine Williams' face."

SHIVERS

 

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