“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.
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!
I’ve read it this year for the first time. It’s fantastic. So short and so powerful.
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.
Edit: Found it! It’s called “the blue afternoon that lasts forever”
Sounds like a rogue black hole
Could also be a strangelet. Theoretical but not fictitious.
Yes, I just reread it. You’re correct. Can detect them now?
Great story, thanks for sharing!
The story I am calling out referenced rogue black holes. But this is very interesting!
Not to make your fear worse but here’s a great video about strange matter 😃
Well. My child is that age and I very much relate to the protagonist. Was not expecting a gut-punch this afternoon.
One of my favorites short sci-fi stories ever.
Longer than you think! Chilled me.
Playing Alien Isolation in VR. I couldn’t get past the medical bay level level due to actual fear of death by heart attack.
Played it without VR. Felt the same. Maybe because I intentionally waited until late at night so it would be dark enough with the lights off. Awesome game.
Alien Isolation is seriously one of the best games ever made and it still holds up today. It was just a bit too long.
I tried to get into it, but there really was quite a lot of preamble.
The fucking needle-in-the-eye part from Dead Space.
Also, Scorn is kinda unsettling.
Scorn is extremely 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.
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Subnautica. Had to finish it in creative mode, it was a bit too much for me.
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
I love horror and fiction since I was very young so it’s very hard to make me feel uncomfortable but this short did it. I kept having nightmares about this for a week
It’s like you know you’re gonna die and there is nothing you can do but YOU have to give up.
That’s brutal.
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 read it like that too, and wish I hadn’t, but I was mostly joking. People in this thread should be more prepared than I was from the context anyway
Contingency, from Local58
Emergency broadcasts of any sort, fictitious or no, already put me on edge, but the idea of the US government having one ready to go, specifically to order people to commit suicide to spite some kind of existential threat, is especially chilling.
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Of course it’s Straub.
The Road, the book, is the only book I’ve ever read that haunted me for a while after. Movie was a decent adaptation, but left some stuff out.
By a country mile the “best” book I’ve read. I think the film does an admirable job of staying within and delivering the message of the book without being “not suitable for release without cuts” in some territories. I mean the baby spit roast isn’t really something one can put to film and expect to get license to release everywhere around the world.
But funnily enough the book actually aims for, and IMHO hits, a completely different message than that of dread; for me, it makes me wholeheartedly appreciate the world, nature, and the good deeds we do for each other. It is also, and I’m aware I’m breaking no ground here, a treatise on love, fatherhood and courage. It makes me appreciate that, despite everything, we are still incredible blessed to live in today’s world.
It is quite simply sensational.
By the way, while very different in tone, Station Eleven really hit the same note for me; appreciate what you’ve got, it might just disappear.
Event Horizon is still mildly terrifying 25y later. Sunshine was pretty bananas too. Shout out to Alastair Reynolds Inhibitor series of books as well.
The Suffering on the original Xbox.
I know it’s mainly because I played it way too young but it still gives me creeps playing it as an adult.
The bathrooms… beware the bathrooms…
Yes! Loved that game so much.
The segment in the original Creepshow where Stephen King is transformed into a plant.
Also The Fly.
That monkey in the teleporter…
Inescapable fate from ‘Final Destination.’
Buddy Holly and Carole Lombard both decided to get in a plane at the last minute. Some tourist decided to go to the World Trade Center instead of the Metropolitan Museum. If you start thinking about it, it can drive you crazy.
Remember the Oklahoma City bombing? My uncle is a retired lawyer in OKC, so he was in that building frequently when it was still standing. If memory serves, it still blew out the windows in his office.
