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[Jackrabbit]

Clock Tower: The First Fear
Scariest SNES game I ever known.  Please if it is dark and lonely where you are right now DO NOT do research about this game.

Oh that's where that GIF came from.

...not that I'd know anything about that.

The worst part is I know what .gif you are talking about.  Too bad I don't know where to find it anymore.
Nevermind I found what I was talking about.  This is it right?

I... may have been referring to the pedobear gif.

[ToonyMan]

Oh, never seen that one.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I watched a video on Ted.com and then (against my better judgement and my own personal Internet usage rules) I read the comments thread below it.

The scary part was the slowly dawning realization that these people were not staging an Internet performance art. They actually believed these things they were saying.

Made me realize the willful ignorance present in random people you see on the street. Any of them might be crazy enough to push the big red button if given the chance. Knowing that, plus the fact that our Congressmen and President don't have to take psychiatric evaluations before taking office, left me shivering.

[Luke_Prowler]

Franken Fran is hilarious.

How can that scare you?

I'm not 100% sure myself. It has it's good points and it's well made, but something about it just disturbs me. Plus I'm terrified of doctor's equipment. Maybe that has something to do with it.

[Pathos]

You guys have never read House of Leaves.

Go read it, it's highly praised.

[Vector]

You guys have never read House of Leaves.

Go read it, it's highly praised.

I read it, but it didn't scare me.  And yes, I read it alone in the dark.

Dunno about the most creepy piece of fiction.  I'll have to think on that one.

[Josephus]

Jeff VanderMeer, City of Saints and Madmen. Creepy as hell in some stories.

[Acanthus117]

You guys have never read House of Leaves.

Go read it, it's highly praised.

I read it, but it didn't scare me.  And yes, I read it alone in the dark.

Dunno about the most creepy piece of fiction.  I'll have to think on that one.

She's not afraid of a Minotaur in a house!

[Pathos]

She's not afraid of a Minotaur in a house!

Damn it, that's not what it's about at all! She didn't read it properly or has BALLS OF STEEL.

[Vector]

She's not afraid of a Minotaur in a house!

Damn it, that's not what it's about at all! She didn't read it properly or has BALLS OF STEEL.

I almost majored in English Literature--specifically literary analysis and symbolism studies.  None of that "So what does this say about the culture?" stuff.  Not to say that I couldn't have missed something, but figuring out alternate interpretations of a work is one of my specialties.

[Pathos]

I almost majored in English Literature--specifically literary analysis and symbolism studies.  None of that "So what does this say about the culture?" stuff.  Not to say that I couldn't have missed something, but figuring out alternate interpretations of a work is one of my specialties.

I'm going with BALLS OF STEEL.

I was trying to work out a way to make BALLS OF STEEL blacker than the forum's normal colour, but then I realised that that's not possible so I bolded it instead.

[Jackrabbit]

BALLS OF STEEL

[Aqizzar]

...figuring out alternate interpretations of a work is one of my specialties.

I wish you could hear me growling right now.  I haaate finding alternative interpretations of literature, mainly as a holdover from gradeschool, where whatever interpretation I came up with was always "wrong".  College literature I've done better with, but mostly because the professors were cooler.

Anyway, the scariest fiction I've ever read.  While not scary per se, Neuromancer is deeply unsettling to me for some reason.  Some combination of having people riding in a computer in your head, a family full of people who spend decades asleep, and the general sense that absolutely nothing in the world is important to anyone.  Mostly it's just weird and cool though.

No, the scariest thing I ever read was a relatively good "amateur" story that I can't remember the name of.  It had a long and meandering intrigue plot, but what terrified me was that the whole thing kicked off with someone's personality being rewritten whole but all their memories intact.  Maybe that's just a personal terror of mine, but waking up one day a different person but completely aware of it scares the crap out of me.  I might be the only person in the world who actually had a nightmare because of Flowers for Algernon.

[ToonyMan]

Yeah I love how you can only interpret a piece of literature one way or it's wrong on the test.

[Pathos]

Yeah I love how you can only interpret a piece of literature one way or it's wrong on the test.

When I was eleven, (secondary school) we had a writing test in English. It was to read a short story and give your opinion on whether the ending was good or not.

I wrote that I believed the ending wasn't good due to the fact it contradicted the mood of the rest of it, with an injection of far too much melodrama. I don't think I knew what any of the words truly meant at the time, but I look back and know I was right.

Apparently you couldn't get full marks if you said it wasn't good. I actually got 0 because I apparently didn't give an appropriate answer. I WAS BLOODY ELEVEN.