I probably checked all three of the Scary Stories books out of my library about 40 times each between the ages of 7 and 11. Is there anyplace you can read them online?
Date: October 29th, 2015 9:33 PM Author: NeumannMorgenste
The newer versions don't have the same images as the originals; they've been modified because of exposure considerations -- argument was they interfered with the investigations.
Date: October 29th, 2015 9:35 PM Author: Charismatic gas station boistinker
I have it on good authority that the original images were pre-programmed to implant certain defensive mechanisms against malign images, and that the people who authorized the change bear more than a passing resemblance to same images.
Date: October 29th, 2015 9:41 PM Author: NeumannMorgenste
Yes, the Defiance Response-Embodiment Program (DREP). The rumors about that started in the 80s -- the idea that there was an overarching (beneficial) conspiracy to ready the population for the horrors to come. But if you subscribe to that, ultimately, you're subscribing to the idea of the Alternative Timestream Theory -- that a defeated world, in a last gasp of innovative hope, shouted back in time across the wide gulf of branched alternative decision pathways to warn an earlier, better-state world of what would come if they didn't fight the Scourge at its source -- to train the children of that earlier, unsullied reality to resist the monsters lurking beneath their beds or hidden in the yellow-husk corn fields of their farmsteads or embedded as malignant lingerers in closets across the globe. And that, my brother, may be a bridge of belief too far. Or {glances up from drink, meeting your eyes}, perhaps it's exactly right.
Date: October 29th, 2015 9:36 PM Author: Charismatic gas station boistinker
The Drum is based on a story first collected in Victorian writer Lucy Clifford's "Anyhow Stories." Basically a gypsy girl manipulates two kids into behaving so badly that their mother not only abandons them, but sends in her place a 'new mother' "with glass eyes, and a wooden tail that thumped on the floor."
Date: October 29th, 2015 9:36 PM Author: NeumannMorgenste
Unfortunately it's less of a story; more a documentary. The reports in those volumes--and the attendant public outcry--were the impetus for the formation of the original Light Squad. People were tired of being afraid; of being terrorized. After so much carnage, finally, they fought back.
Date: October 29th, 2015 9:44 PM Author: NeumannMorgenste
Catalog Entry # 175. Specimen: Harold Mass Fear Index Level: 7 Intelligence Index Level: 6 Strength Index Level: 2 Mass Casualty Events: Des Moines, 2017; Toronto, 2021; Paris (Siege), 2024; Madrid, 2025 Conquest: Strike Team Golden, Battle of Madrid, 2025
Date: October 29th, 2015 9:57 PM Author: Offensive space
yeah 99% of new stuff now is like a zillion words and purposefully dense and unreadable with all of the pseudo-science journal shit, "if a hyperion-class incident occurs while level 6.5 personnel are conducting a C-523 protocol within the subject's PRM (personal reality maintenance) barriers, director [blackout] should be contacted and immediately initiate Doctrine Q"
like fuck just show a picture of a weird thing in a warehouse and write a few unsettling things about it brah
Date: October 29th, 2015 10:03 PM Author: Offensive space
I am kind of mad IRL about it because I was looking for some spooooky reads there and on nosleep a few nights ago, and the latter has gone to pure reddit shit too. Nothing but gasbags who think they are the cumchildren of Lovecraft and Jonathan Safran Foer writing 10 part cliffhanger serials.
Date: October 29th, 2015 10:14 PM Author: Charismatic gas station boistinker
scp-173? Yeah
Although I think it's actually lifted from some Dr Who shit originally
But the same thing has happened with creepypasta
Back when I was in college, the ED creepypasta page was just a series of 200-500 word bits of terror--just little one-liners designed to unsettle the guy reading them on the other edge of the screen
Now they all seem to be dumb 'lost episode' or 'spoopy video game' or 'omg slenderman' shit
And they're all over written. The secret to a good creepypasta is brevity
For example, I think something like, idk, this (which I just threw together in 2 minutes) is creepier than that shit.
"Turn around.
Big mistake. I just moved closer while your back was turned."