Horror From Around The Web - AKA the SCP Refugee Thread

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No, I'm not talking about Horrorcows or Horrible Happenings. I'm speaking strictly fiction. With SCP circling the toilet and most of the old creepypastas either killed by their autistic fanbases or actual real life murders, it's not looking good for the internet horror scene. That said, there's still plenty of quality shit, both old and new, that deserves having a look at. I've lined up a few examples to start off the thread. If you've got anything you want to recommend, slap that shit in the thread and let's talk about it.

The Interface Series. As mentioned in the SCP thread. Yes, it's reddit but trust me it's good... if a bit mindfucky. I could explain it myself but there's a Down the Rabbit Hole video that does a better job.


Local 58. A youtube series by Kris Straub, the same guy who made Candle Cove and Broodhollow. Another mindfuck which involves cosmic horror and the question of whether or not we really have free will, all told through the format of what is seemingly a regular local TV station broadcasting completely unrelated programs. If it's a bit too screwy for you, Nexpo did a video summarizing the series and giving his own theories on the matter.


The Sick Land. This one's a bit older, but I haven't seen much talk about it. Think Roadside Picnic (AKA S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) but with heavier cosmic horror themes and from the point of view of a scientific researcher.

The Search and Rescue Woods Series. It's from Nosleep, but before the subreddit descended into autism. A bunch of flash fiction stories told from the perspective of a Search and Rescue officer working at an unnamed US National Forest. If any of you are familiar with Missing 411, it's like that but cranked up a couple notches and with an explicitly supernatural bend. Syfy actually based a season of their show Channel Zero on the stories, but they mangled it so badly it hardly resembles the original work at all. They also fucked the author over on the rights, which is always fun.

The Sun Vanished. A by-post ARG where the author exists in a world where the sun fucking vanished what the fuck do you think the plot is? Well, there's other shit going on but you'll have to take a peek to see. Still ongoing. A bit crusty but it has enough potential to keep me occupied at least. Unfortunately it's on twitter which makes navigating it a bit of a hassle.

Marble Hornets. You've probably heard of it, but the faggotry surrounding the Slender Man tends to turn people off so I'm going to vouch for it. It is the original, and only good Slender Man Vlog. Just try not to think of the SlenderJeff slash fics while you watch it. Eckva is made by one of the original creators. Ongoing, but the upload schedule is slow as balls.

Honorable Mentions:

Portals of London. An anthology series all written in-character as a blogger who researches areas of London where the divides between our reality and others is thin. The work as a whole isn't strictly horror, but some of the stories definitely are.

You Awaken In Razor Hill. Old horror-comedy blog strictly made for WoW fans back in the WotLK days. Takes the form of a CYOA and includes a lot of elements ripped wholesale from Silent Hill. It's a bit of an autistic guilty pleasure of mine. I go back to it once in a blue moon.

If any of you fucks have shit you want people to read/watch, be sure to post it. I'm always ready for more spooks.
 
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Gemini Home Entertainment, similar to Local 58 but with a bit more emphasis on eldritch horror
I enjoy GHE but the delivery feels really awkward -- especially in the sense of how predictable its formatting is. Start with normal exposition about whatever, music fades, show something offputting, glitch effect, cut to eldritch horror, reach climax, then quickly cut back to a normal conclusion. Some parts are insanely creepy -- the ending of the one about the party games where the circle lights up around the Earth is super memorable, and the visuals from the Crusader Mission are great -- but overall every episode follows the same sequence to the point of awkwardness. It doesn't make much sense from an in-universe perspective either. I'd say Monument Mythos is a much better handling of this sort of horror.
 
PATHOGRAPHY while just a bunch and ideas is pretty great too. It's like a mixture of House of Leaves and conspiracy shit.
To quote a post;
essentially, that space doesn't exist. Not space as in "the place where the stars are", but space as in "that thing involving distances." There's no actual metric, affine connection, or topology governing the routes between places; there's just places, and the connections between places.

Humans impose order on this, subconsciously, simply from the need to construct a coherent model of the world; this allows them to reliably locate places and travel between them using routes they've used before. Essentially, anywhere a human can actually see must be locally equivalent to flat three-dimensional space, and as they travel through the world they develop a mental map of places and routes between those places that will enable them to go back and locate them again.

When you have lots of people living and communicating together, their maps necessarily have to match up in order to avoid contradictions - if someone's observed going from A to B along route C, then the observer's map must also include route C. This causes larger areas to come out to normal flat space, the horizons lining up together to form a coherent patch of land defined by the understanding of the inhabitants.

Exploring the unknown, beyond the patches you've nailed down, is more or less entirely dependent on the subconscious (or consciously directed, if you're clever) expectations of what sort of things you might find in that "direction". Two people can find entirely different and contradictory things in the same unexplored space, but once somebody comes back and actually writes down a map of what they found and how they found it so it can be shared with other people, then that becomes part of the consensus mental cartography and other people who know about it can find it as well.

The great task of sewing the globe together involved finding these arbitrary patches of coherent land formed by separated populations, and mapping out coherent transitions between them
 
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The same can be said about Nexpo, but three fold.

I actually like him as a content creator, but HATE how he talks in his videos at times.



"So they all lived happily ever after.......but............they didn't."


"He................however.......................was dead..."


"..............."
 
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