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Congratulations @Hugh
Thank you for the
votes @HoopyFrood and @Mr Orange
Thanks for the mentions everyone else
And here's the theme tune for my effort
My understanding of Weird Fiction came from here
"The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." - H. P. Lovecraft
and here
"Suppose you were told there was a tiger in the next room: you would know that you were in danger and would probably feel fear. But if you were told "There is a ghost in the next room," and believed it, you would feel, indeed, what is often called fear, but of a different kind. It would not be based on the knowledge of danger, for no one is primarily afraid of what a ghost may do to him, but of the mere fact that it is a ghost. It is "uncanny" rather than dangerous, and the special kind of fear it excites may be called Dread." - C. S. Lewis
So I interpreted it as "the monster under the bed", "the monster in the closet", the creaking floorboard outside the bedroom etc. In other words, the horror unseen. So, I wanted to create a sense of terror getting closer and closer, until I ruined it all with a bad pun
Thanks for reading
Thank you for the
votes @HoopyFrood and @Mr OrangeThanks for the mentions everyone else
And here's the theme tune for my effort
My understanding of Weird Fiction came from here
"The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." - H. P. Lovecraft
and here
"Suppose you were told there was a tiger in the next room: you would know that you were in danger and would probably feel fear. But if you were told "There is a ghost in the next room," and believed it, you would feel, indeed, what is often called fear, but of a different kind. It would not be based on the knowledge of danger, for no one is primarily afraid of what a ghost may do to him, but of the mere fact that it is a ghost. It is "uncanny" rather than dangerous, and the special kind of fear it excites may be called Dread." - C. S. Lewis
So I interpreted it as "the monster under the bed", "the monster in the closet", the creaking floorboard outside the bedroom etc. In other words, the horror unseen. So, I wanted to create a sense of terror getting closer and closer, until I ruined it all with a bad pun
Thanks for reading
