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Nightmare Fuel / Gabriel Knight

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  • The part where Gabriel is talking to poor Crash in a church pew before he suddenly proceeds to asphyxiate and die right in front of the player... It's not made any better by having to search his corpse and copy down the tattoo on his chest.
  • On the second last day of the game, Gabriel is suddenly assaulted by face-tearing mummies - which he has no weapons against. This is followed not too long after by the part where Wolfgang reaches into his own chest and rips out his own heart.
  • At one point, Gabriel finds himself in the park, where he comes across a fortune teller that he spoke to earlier in the game and inadvertently scared off when she read his palm. When he talks to her, she suddenly becomes possessed by Tetelo, who warns him to stay away from Malia Gedde or pay with his life.
  • When in the voodoo cabal's headquarters, everything is very clean and orderly, like any other building. Then there's Dr. John's room: turns out, he's super deep into bathing in blood.
  • Gabriel's nightmare in the third game. A first person shot of someone drinking blood falling from a crucifix while a creepy voice asks them if they want to live forever. Gabriel is naturally freaked out when he wakes up.
    • For a bonus (if likely unintentional) bit of nightmare fuel, Gabriel's nightmare bears a striking resemblance to one of the nightmares John Haigh claimed to have suffered as a child.
  • The remake of the first game adds several levels of creepiness to the segment where the player has to get the tracking device and beacons from Mosely's office on Day 6. After getting there, Gabriel finds a dead crow lying next to a bloody tire iron, and Gabriel speculates that it was killed as a warning, like the dead chicken left at St. George's Books at the start of the day. Then, after breaking into Mosely's office, finding the tracker and beacons triggers a cutscene. As Gabriel stands up, he sees that all the officers in the next room are standing in front of the one-way mirror, their eyes rolled back into their heads and yet somehow looking directly at him. Naturally, Gabriel books it, but as he leaves on his motorcycle, he notices that the jump-roping triplets in front of the precinct are watching him, too, one of them even petting the dead crow.

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