Nightmare Fuel / Ethel Cain

• The entirety of Preacher's Daughter, due to it revolving around a harrowing Southern Gothic horror story about the character of Ethel Cain, the namesake of the artist's pseudonym. In summary, Ethel has an exceptionally traumatic life: she was sexually assaulted by her own father at a very young age, her true love Willoughby left her behind, her criminal boyfriend Logan is later killed by the police, and she escapes from it all only to be kidnapped and drugged up by Isaiah, who at first seems like her true love but eventually sells her into prostitution before he ultimately brutally rapes, murders, and cannibalizes her.
  • "Ptolemaea", the song in which Isaiah reveals his true evil and attacks Ethel. There is a damn good reason why so many people consider this the scariest song on the album, if not all of Ethel's works.
    • During the beginning and at different portions, there's a noise that sounds like a swarm of flies buzzing around.
    • Ethel's vocal performance throughout the song is haunting. There's the bloodcurdling screams as she's attacked; the first one is especially terrifying ("Stop...stop...stop...STOOOOP!!!"), and then during the "I am the face of love's rage" section, she can still be heard screaming and begging for her life in the background. (This is audible in the original song if you have a good ear, but it's especially frightening in the isolated acapella.) During the final monologue (which itself is pure Nightmare Fuel), Ethel can also be heard being strangled to death with what eerily sounds like a death rattle at the end.
    • Some have theorized that the monologues aren't just from Isaiah's POV, but from Death itself, or even the devil coming to claim Ethel's soul.
    • Even with the story notwithstanding, the song perfectly captures the visceral dread, fear, helplessness, and overall nightmare of a woman falling victim to an evil and predatory man.
  • The final track, "Strangers". Although it's musically calming, it has no slouch of nightmarish lyrics, such as "You look so handsome when I'm all over YOUR MOUTH" or the bridge's infamous "Am I making you sick?".