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 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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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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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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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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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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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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