There was this short sci fi story I think about a lot. I forgot what it’s called but it’s essentially about some kind of particle (it’s physics related) that floats around the universe and has the ability to engulf everything in it’s path or something? The story is about the last few hours on earth when one such particle happens to stumble into our solar system. Ill have to dig it up.
Edit: Found it! It’s called “the blue afternoon that lasts forever”
Sounds like a rogue black hole
Yes, I just reread it. You’re correct. Can detect them now?
Great story, thanks for sharing!
The story I am calling out referenced rogue black holes. But this is very interesting!
I love horror and fiction since I was very young so it’s very hard to make me feel uncomfortable but this short did it. I kept having nightmares about this for a week
It’s like you know you’re gonna die and there is nothing you can do but YOU have to give up.
That’s brutal.
The short-story Dread by Clive Barker.
Go in cold, no spoilers.
Contingency, from Local58
Emergency broadcasts of any sort, fictitious or no, already put me on edge, but the idea of the US government having one ready to go, specifically to order people to commit suicide to spite some kind of existential threat, is especially chilling.
Of course it’s Straub.
Event Horizon is still mildly terrifying 25y later. Sunshine was pretty bananas too. Shout out to Alastair Reynolds Inhibitor series of books as well.
The Road, the book, is the only book I’ve ever read that haunted me for a while after. Movie was a decent adaptation, but left some stuff out.
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The deadlights in Stephen King’s IT. ::: spoiler The scene where the turtle is dead hits me right in the existential dread. spoiler :::
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SOMA. There were sections in the game that were scary, but the entire concept is really a mind melt. It’s not like it’s not a common theoretical question, but going through it step by step is another thing. And if you go to the home page of it and read some of the short stories, it really adds to the whole experience.
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The Suffering on the original Xbox.
I know it’s mainly because I played it way too young but it still gives me creeps playing it as an adult.
The bathrooms… beware the bathrooms…
The “Don t look up” movie was a little too real for me.
Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but this song is a masterpiece of horror manifest through audio. In fact the whole album is a piece of art, troubling and dark but so well crafted.
https://youtu.be/CwnxBWWLy9c?si=CAiSx58pHDkFMscQ
Edit: fixed wording
I thought for sure this was gonna be “Everywhere at the End of Time”.
If you’re not familiar, it’s a 6 hour audio piece that simulates the descent into dementia ending in the complete loss of oneself and eventually death.
Knowing what it is going in, it’s terrifying to listen to.
The whole thing is on YouTube, posted by the creator without ads, but I’m too lazy to go find it and don’t want the piped link bot to kill me in my sleep.
And while not quite the same, there’s Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night…
One that I really like is Dear David by Adam Ellis. And yeah yeah, I know that he’s going for the usual “true ghost story” marketing shtick or whatever, but these stories that don’t just use cheap jumpscares and instead build a sense of constant threat and impending doom are the ones that make it harder for me to sleep at night.
I heard that the movie is trash though 🙈Man in the high castle.
