YMMV / Case File No.56

• Complete Monster: Stitch is a murderous, undead entity responsible for a string of brutal murders in Seattle. In life, he was said to be a wicked man, punished for his crimes by drawing and quartering. He has killed many victims across the globe, and kicks off his spree in Seattle by stalking and ultimately ripping a woman to shreds in her own home; kills her cousin in the mental hospital shortly after; then murders a paranormal investigator. When the heroes of the story catch onto him, Stitch infiltrates their personal lives, stalking their homes and haunting their dreams, and killing a helpful Redditor in front of the lead hero and his intern. One of the detectives goes into hiding, and he murders her along with her family. After the hero has the case taken out of his hands, Stitch reveals to him that he's kept him alive to provide him with victims by instilling fear in their hearts, driving him to kill his intern and then himself out of shame.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • With a body count like his, Stitch was way beyond this point even before the series began. But what really does it for Ryan is when he murdered Anna and left her head on his car to taunt him.
  • Ryan believes he crossed this himself by unwittingly leading Stitch to his victims by instilling paranoia in their minds. This promptly leads to a Despair Event Horizon.
• Narm: It may be a little difficult to take the story seriously after learning that Stitch has 58 chromosomes. Because you know what else does? Wooly mammoths.
• Nausea Fuel: Fear_of put a LOT of detail into Stitch's gruesome crimes, which very well could bring the most seasoned Ripperologist to vomit.
• Nightmare Fuel: All over the place, really.
  • Stitch's slow, methodical stalking of his first victim, fueling her fear, chronicled in her diary and videos. In the end, he rips her to shreds.
  • The gruesome state that Anna's parents' house is left in after Stitch killed them. Her mother and father are gorily slain, and the horses in the barn are left in many separate pieces. And the ones that he spared? Horribly malnourished, with one of them eating the remains of a dead one, presumably because Stitch fed them the remains.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Those poor horses.
  • Ryan's anguished reaction when he finds Anna's severed head on the hood of his car.
  • The ending. Ryan, out of extreme guilt for leading Stitch to hundreds of potential victims, being responsible for the death of RepetitiveRoutine, and for ruining John's life, calls John over to his house to help him with some research and kills him after he begs for his life. Then he resolves to kill himself, concluding the series on the most bitter note possible, short of Stitch killing everyone himself.
• The Woobie: Is anybody in this series not a woobie (sans Stitch)?