Questions tagged [horror]
For questions involving monsters and horror literature. This tag is often used when talking about monsters and scenarios based on literature from H. P. Lovecraft.
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How can I record pain during a ritual sacrifice in my fantasy world? [closed]
In my fantasy world, ritual sacrifices play a crucial role in religious and cultural practices. The priests and practitioners believe that the amount of pain endured by the sacrificial subject ...
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How can the stars be wrong, so that an observer realises they're not in our world anymore?
There is a common trope in fiction: when a character find themselves in a dark place out of this reality (somewhere in the eldritch realms, dreamscapes, lost cities of Carcosa or R'lyeh, etc), at ...
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How would a creature adapted to life in a completely dark environment also have the ability to change its skin pattern like an octopus?
I'm in a bit of a pickle - I've designed a monster for a horror novel I'm working on, but I've added too many characteristics that I like for it to make logical sense. One of these features is that ...
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These creatures eat human fear - how do they justify it? [closed]
Humans have particular pheromones in their sweat that represents fear (very interesting study - tldr: there are particular chemical odors emitted through sweat when humans are fearful that can be ...
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How can you appear in an illusion in your own car [closed]
In the beginning of my story two girls arrive in their car to a central square of a little European looking town with no single living soul around. They take guns from the trunk, go to a church on ...
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How can i make my worldbuilding magical, fun and a little dark, but still maintain realism? [closed]
I'm trying to make a character, and I'm first creating their world, but I'm can't figure out whether I want it to be all magical or more realistic. Helluva Boss did this great. It took place in hell, ...
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How might a cultist disguise a body mutilated by a monster? [closed]
The main story would deal with a strange suicide in a town such as San Francisco in the 30s. The latest case deals with the disappearance of a mother and her child.
Each time the bodies are severely ...
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Could my Vampires exist? [closed]
Contrary to popular belief, vampires are not undead humans, but a species of giant hematophagous bats. Some basic characteristic of my vampires include:
They mostly consume blood, sometimes human ...
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How to keep a town in the 1960s mostly isolated?
So, the lead up to the story is that a skinwalker drags injured people into the deep forest and nails them to trees before summoning a demon into each of them, leaving them there as parasites who ...
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What terrifying monster attacks people's noses that stick out of a mask? [closed]
Suppose there is a creature that attacks human noses, if the nostrils are visible. People have discovered that they are safe from this monster, if they wear a mask. It is not enough to wear the mask ...
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What reasons would demonic supernatural beings have for giving someone a creepy phone? [closed]
The setup: Detective's office phone gets broken, so she goes out to get a new one. The one she gets will ring randomly sometimes, and she can hear events that she should not be able to hear, i.e,
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How to make FTL-technology an narratively interesting suicide-pact-technology?
Building my sci-fi setting deciding what's the in-universe answer to the Fermi-paradoxon, the reason why the universe still seems to be empty of K3 civilisations despite its age, has been quite ...
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How can I conceal the presence of magical beasts from humans for a few weeks?
I am in the process of fleshing out an alternate world where, following an unnatural super-storm (think cold snaps down to -30°C and heavy snowfall in the 4ft range [1.2 m] inside of 8 hours) in the ...
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How deep would you have to bury a body in a graveyard so that it won't be found? [closed]
I’m writing a horror book and I was wondering:
If you buried a body in a graveyard, how deep would you have to put it so that it is untraceable/undetectable? Time period—modern day
Untraceable for—as ...
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Great Old Ones Limited, or Why does Cthulhu need a Company?
A world much like our own. A city like the one in which you live. A corporation whose doors you pass every day. Maybe you notice the subtle sans-serif fonted words adorning the entrance, maybe you ...
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How can a race of eldritch abominations help humanity?
A society of your typical beings from beyond the veil of reality have recently encountered the bounderies of the realm humans call home. They studied our universe, via their own incomprehensible ...
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Would it be realistic to hide a city in the United States?
I was thinking of exploring Lovecraftian horror the other day, and the thought occurred to me: say a couple decades after the American civil war, there was a certain city in New England of 10,000 ...
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Who will be horrified by the Worldbuilding site? [closed]
Who will be horrified (or angered or distressed) on reading or knowing of the existence of the Worldbuilding Stack Exchange site or any post(s) present on it?
By 'who will', I mean any futuristic/...
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How can a Horror from Beyond Reason reliably communicate with mortals?
Jimmy is an Eldritch Monstrosity.
Jimmy has a Red Ball.
Jimmy wants someone to play with him and his Red Ball.
All of Jimmy's friends are busy trying to Overturn the Cosmic Order and bring Chaos ...
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Can Brian Greene's Ultimate Multiverse contain Cthulhu Mythos?
I'm wondering if Greene's Ultimate Multiverse could work like Heinlein's World as Myth concept or Stephen King's Dark Tower. 'Work' in a way that it could contain fictional universes. In this case, ...
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What would count or define as an eldritch abomination?
So I tried googling them, all I got was
A:[unspeakable horrors not meant to be seen][Which does not help]
B:[A giant tentacled balloon]
C:[Some strange shadow skeleton pseudo-death god]
So yeah, ...
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What is the logical conclusion of Horrors that "infect" such as Grudge, Ring and It Follows? [closed]
So, I'm currently mulling over what a regular world set in the present would look like if one of these horrors were real. A horror movie accurately represents a singular victim, but the ending is ...
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How would Facebook Sysadmins prevent the summoning of Cthulhu?
So, I've got this idea for a short story. Some researchers find a forgotten manuscript hidden locked away in an ancient tomb. While they are working on it one of them pastes part of the text into a ...
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