Fridge Brilliance
- In House of Usher, many players complained about the fact that Dupin's personality takes an unexplained swerve; he's not nearly as charming, friendly, or warm as in the previous games. But in the bonus chapter, we learn that the town where the game takes place is being corrupted by an evil presence. It's entirely possible, although not given any official confirmation, that Dupin's personality shift was the result of his being affected by the same thing.
- In Speaking With the Dead, notes from the deceased Brian Marsh remark that Commissioner Loyalle's wife Valentina is the first person he's met who can really understand and appreciate his work in trying to learn to revive the dead. This is easy to overlook, but it's actually a case of FB if you've played the earlier games. Valentina is first introduced in The Tell-Tale Heart as the mortician working on the investigation. Of course someone who works with examining bodies in a morgue would have a better understanding of what he was doing than your average layman.
- In both The Raven and Lenore, the plot revolves around (two different) people named Alan and Lenore. Lenore, of course, is famously the subject of Poe's epic love poem of the same name. Alan, meanwhile, is Poe's middle name. The characters are stand-ins for Poe himself and The Lost Lenore.
Fridge Logic
See Headscratchers.
Fridge Horror
- One for House of Usher that doesn't settle into your head for a while. The family curse goes back centuries, right? Where are the Ushers finding people willing to marry into their family to carry on the bloodline? Are they willing? Or was Estelle (who is implied to have been with them the whole time) doing something to help?
- Or, worse, were they already in the family?
