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Horror/weird tales.

@porque I don't get scared. It's more a feeling of :huhldup:depending on what story it is. Or somebody might take what could be a really dumb idea, and make it creepy which is impressive. Like Clive Barker has a short story called "The Body Politic" where individual body parts decide they don't want to work together any more. So hands start killing their owners, etc.

And did his eyes envy their liberty, he wondered, and was his tongue eager to be out of his mouth and away, and was every part of him, in its subtle way, preparing to forsake him? He was an alliance only held together by the most tenuous of truces. Now, with the precedent set, how long before the next uprising? Minutes? Years?

He waited, heart in mouth, for the fall of Empire.
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You gotta be on drugs to write some shyt like that. :wow:

Or H.P. Lovecraft. Even if you're not into horror he's responsible for damn near anything directly or indirectly tied to sci-fi and horror, if not fiction in general, of the last 80+ years.

The nethermost caverns...are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their marvels are strange and terrific. Cursed the ground where dead thoughts live new and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. Wisely did Ibn Schacabao say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumour that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.
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Evil is the mind that is held by no head. :wow:

Fred.
 
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