Surprised nobody has mentioned SCP-4231.
Perhaps others don’t feel the same way. There’s no particularly scary monsters, and while there’s some gore, there’s nothing that relies too heavily on traditionally "creepy" imagery.
But I felt sick the whole day after reading it. Emptiness, nausea, disgust-all things that bubbled in my chest and gut for a long, long while.
I think it’s because, anomalous, reality-bending phenomena aside, it felt…real. As in, these are things that actually happen to real people. There are no horribly deformed, mutated monsters under your bed, but there are godawful people that abuse, exploit, and assault other people out there in the world. And that terrifies and disgusts me far more than anything else.
aleph_null99, 26 Dec 2020 00:51
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