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« Reply #60 on: June 18, 2012, 07:46:50 PM » |
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For some reason losing teeth and/or hands is spine tingling to me. When I hear stories about people getting their arms ripped off it creeps me OUT!
I heard a story about some teen boy who was working on a farm and he got his arms ripped off by some farm machine thingie. He managed to make his way back to the house, dial the phone with a pencil in his teeth and then went to lay down in the bathtub so he wouldn't bleed all over his mother's rug. I know it's heroic in a way, but it really makes me shake and get goosebumps.
I HATE the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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« Reply #61 on: June 19, 2012, 10:43:39 AM » |
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Repetition. The idea that I've done the same thing, over and over, and can't escape doing it again.
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« Reply #62 on: August 02, 2012, 11:02:06 AM » |
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I know that it isn't a horror book, but in Beijing Coma there is a part where the narrator is running and he realizes he can't get good footing because the pavement has been covered with brains. It sounds comical, but he is describing what it was like when the tanks moved into Tienanmen Square. Horror or not (it's fiction), it's chilling. I put the book down right there because it made me ill. It was amazing and horrible all at the same time.
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« Reply #63 on: August 02, 2012, 05:47:26 PM » |
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Eternal damnation, loss of all context, insanity, rings of chanting demons in dark realms surrounding me, wolves, spiders, giant birds, meteor showers that fall to earth and keep coming, men in black, Martians, character assassination, loss of all contact with humanity, with sympathetic humans, being sucked up in a whirlwind and deposited in a desert too far from anything to survive, freezing to death lost on the icecap, betrayal by loved ones, all the normal stuff.
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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« Reply #64 on: August 02, 2012, 10:30:42 PM » |
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When events of the story have already effected the surroundings, or are implied that they will eventually. For some reason I have little sympathy for protagonists, perhaps subconsciously translating them as catalysts for the story more than anything. However, when events start to effect others, either knowing or unknowing, it just hits a very paranoid nerve.
I guess it speaks to a Homer Simpson realization of, "wow, that horrible monstrosity is attacking everyone else!...Wait, I'm everyone else!"
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« Reply #65 on: September 06, 2012, 01:48:41 PM » |
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Re-Animating this thread a bit and trying to be kind to the Unspoiled;
I just reread Ira Levin's Boys from Brazil. The surprise ending in that is one of my earliest creepiest memories. The thought that Biology isn't necessarily Destiny ...but it ***might*** be is a truly scary thing.
I also found The Stepford Wives original movie scary for loss of idenity. The forcing of a creature to be its own opposite without or with it's own knowledge is frightening. That may be why I like HPL's Innsmouth story so much too.
My fears seem to be very consistent over time which is oddly comforting.
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. ~H. P. Lovecraft
Yay, crime, perversion, and insanity! Sounds like a party! ~me
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« Reply #66 on: September 10, 2012, 09:01:46 AM » |
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There was a short story I read in a collection some years back - can't remember the author! A guy undergoes an autopsy while conscious, though he appears dead. The thought of scalpels and bone saws......  |
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« Reply #67 on: September 10, 2012, 12:16:51 PM » |
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I don't know what TYPE OF FICTION this is, but it really really scars the heck out of me the idea of looking out a window and there is someone on the outside looking in at me. The scariest part of the movie Halloween is when you see from the inside of the house that Michael is watching.
When I was young I used to run past the window on the basement stairs because I was absolutely sure that some alien had landed in the dark lawn between our house and the neighbor's, and now the alien was looking in the window, AT ME!
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« Reply #68 on: September 10, 2012, 12:32:20 PM » |
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For some reason losing teeth and/or hands is spine tingling to me. When I hear stories about people getting their arms ripped off it creeps me OUT!
I heard a story about some teen boy who was working on a farm and he got his arms ripped off by some farm machine thingie. He managed to make his way back to the house, dial the phone with a pencil in his teeth and then went to lay down in the bathtub so he wouldn't bleed all over his mother's rug. I know it's heroic in a way, but it really makes me shake and get goosebumps.
I HATE the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
No to monopolize the thread, but I just reread it and realized that this is a perfect example of the kind of thing I don't like to think too much about, a part of my memory that I like to keep locked away. If I follow my own train of thought on either of these then I get very creeped out. I like what T. Kelly Lee said his Dad said. This is similar to his response to me, isn't it? You keep the beast, the jungle locked away inside you. If you don't it will be something that will haunt you. His father was successful in keeping the beast locked up so he doesn't feel too bad. |
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« Reply #69 on: September 12, 2012, 04:58:06 PM » |
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Sharks...I'm a 38 year old man and I still can't watch a movie about a Great White made in the 1970s. The worst part about it is that I'm a huge Roy Scheider fan  |
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« Reply #70 on: September 12, 2012, 08:03:04 PM » |
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^ You and me both, brother. It doesn't comfort me at all when the Discovery Channel tells me that most shark bites are due to simple curiosity or mistaken identity rather than an act of predation. All that means is that I'm scared of near-sighted sharks instead of hungry ones.
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« Reply #71 on: September 13, 2012, 06:01:39 PM » |
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I can't even turn the TV on during "Shark Week".
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'Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.'
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« Reply #72 on: September 13, 2012, 07:13:35 PM » |
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Horror fan that I am, I love watching sharks on TV. I like creeping myself out thinking about the ocean, and Jaws might be be the greatest horror movie ever made for my money. But I haven't so much as dipped my toe into the ocean since I was around 7, and have no intention of ever breaking that streak.  |
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« Reply #73 on: September 14, 2012, 10:18:20 PM » |
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I used to be scared of sharks, mostly due to Jaws I think. This is back in my kidlet days. Then I went to Sea World where they had a tunnel though a shark tank. I was so scared to go though it, not sure how my dad convinced me, but seeing how they swam, and how graceful they were cured me of my fear. Now I love sharks in all their forms...
That being said, you couldn't get me to a shark dive if you paid me. I know the odds are millions to one, but I'd
hate to be the guy that got snagged out of the cage and turned into hominid sashimi.
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