History Fridge / DarkTales

* 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?

* 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 has Estelle (who is implied to have been with them the whole time) doing something to help?

See [[NightmareFuel/DarkTales Nightmare Fuel.]]

* In ''The Premature Burial'', you learn that somebody has been [[spoiler: burying people - specifically, his wives - alive. Later, you and Dupin have to rescue one character from such a fate]]. Think about it. [[spoiler: She was sealed inside a mausoleum full of the dead with no food, no water and no way to escape...]]
** It gets worse if you play the bonus chapter of the collector's edition and realize that [[spoiler:he's done it three times, all to women he specifically married because their deaths would be easy to fake]]. You also learn that the sick bastard [[spoiler:has a secret tunnel leading to the crypt. Why? ''So he can listen to each wife screaming and sobbing.'']] That's some top-grade psychopathy right there.
*** Don't forget the fact that there is an accomplice [[spoiler: who convinced him to do it in the first place. It's the groundskeeper at said cemetery. He works there, he knows that there are people being buried alive... ''and he does nothing about it.'']]
* In ''House of Usher'', the man in the opening animation is [[spoiler:the detective whose diary is found by Dupin. He's killed so his life-force could feed the Usher estate. That's bad enough, but as the game progresses, you learn that he's just the ''latest'' in a string of sacrifices to save the last of the Usher line.]]
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* In ''Masque of the Red Death'', you arrive in Lumineaux to find villagers pelting a fountain of Mayor Prospero with eggs. A short time later, you learn that the villagers are taxed without pity and many are unable to afford food. One has to wonder why, if they're so hungry, they would waste eggs in this manner.

*** Don't forget the fact that there is an accomplice [[spoiler: who convinced him to do it in the first place. It's the groundskeeper at said cemetery. He works there, he knows that there are people being buried alive...''and he does nothing about it.'']]
* In ''House of Usher'', the man in the opening animation is [[spoiler:the detective whose diary is found by Dupin. He's killed so his life-force could feed the Usher estate. That's bad enough, but as the game progresses you learn that he's just the ''latest'' in a string of sacrifices to save the last of the Usher line.]]

** Maybe those eggs are too rotten to eat? It could be symbolic of how people really think of the mayor (hey, this food is so bad that we're giving it to you)?
** That could be, but if you count how many eggs are actually thrown, it's a grand total of three. Perhaps the only people that threw them are the ones that felt they could afford to.

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* Dupin's behavior (As shown under OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness) in ''House of Usehr'' may seem a bit odd. But take note that this is only during those DistressBall situations. The last time he had those was in the bonus chapter of ''Masque of the Red Death'' where [[spoiler: he got shot in the chest]]. Most likely he's infuritated that he was going to be captured and killed ''again''.

* Dupin's behavior (As shown under OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness) in ''House of User'' may seem a bit odd. But take note that this is only during those DistressBall situations. The last time he had those was in the bonus chapter of ''Masque of the Red Death'' where [[spoiler: he got shot in the chest]]. Most likely he's infuritated that he was going to be captured and killed ''again''.

* In ''The Premature Burial'', you learn that somebody has been [[spoiler: burying people - specifically, his wives - alive. Later, you and Dupin have to rescue one character from such a fate]]. Think about it. [[spoiler: Buried alive with no food, no water and no way to escape...]]
** It gets worse if you play the bonus chapter of the collector's edition and realize that [[spoiler:he's done it three times, all to women he specifically married because their deaths would be easy to fake]]. That's some top-grade psychopathy right there.
*** Don't forget the fact that there is an accomplice [[spoiler: who convinced him to do it and is the groundskeeper at said cemetery. He works there, knows that there are people who are buried alive...''and does nothing about it.'']]
* In ''House of User'', the man at the beginning was [[spoiler: the detective from earlier, killed so his life-force could feed the Usher estate. Now notice that he's just the ''latest'' in a string of sacrifices to save the last of the Usher line.]]

* In ''The Premature Burial'', you learn that somebody has been [[spoiler: burying people - specifically, his wives - alive. Later, you and Dupin have to rescue one character from such a fate]]. Think about it. Buried alive with no food, no water and no way to escape...

* In ''The Premature Burial'', you learn that somebody has been [[spoiler: burying people = specifically, his wives - alive. Later, you and Dupin have to rescue one character from such a fate]]. Think about it. Buried alive with no food, no water and no way to escape...

* In ''The Premature Burial'' you learn that somebody has been [[spoiler: burying people (more specifically his wives) alive and later you and Dupin have to rescue one character from such a fate]]. Think about it. Buried alive with no food, no water and no way to escape...