What Scares You The Most?

Post about what is most horrifying for you or scary moments from your own original works, or...just scary stuff in general.

Mine? Three words. Nothing Is Scarier. what scares me the most Real Life is being in a long hallway that is dark but not dark enough to completely obscure anything. I once been in that kind of situation in my old school when I forgot something and since the floor was really creaky, and the worst part: the further I walked toward my classroom, the darker it got. I also had to go through many corners and God, I was scared to turn around because maybe, just maybe, someone might have been standing there and if I saw anyone standing, I would have died of heartattack. I eventually took my stuff out and was very well ready to leave and then, when I passed the bathroom, one of the doors inexplicably opened and cue me running like hell. GAH!

Well, that was Off Topic. What scares me the most: a figure standing in a middle of very long dark corner. Bonus point if it's a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl.

What's yours?

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Well, that was a fast derail.

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But yeah, I find buzzy insects to rather creepy. What scares me are sudden loud noises. O.O

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Unnatural Isolation. I have no problems with being alone, but when it's that kinda lonliness that feels off, that's when it gets creepy. That, and music that just doesn't fit with the situation. Now I love me some juxtaposition, but hearing a lullaby in the dark is not at all comforting.

Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.

This! Can't agree more. Nothing Is Scarier plus this= I Want My Mommy!.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Being in the dark without having an "excuse" for it scares me very much. Like, I've never had a problem sleeping in the dark, but walking through an empty corridor or going up the stairs with minimum or no illumination sometimes terrifies me. Especially if it's completely silent except my steps.

Also, I remember I was very scared as a kid from a toilets of a school. They were located in a small building outside the school, and were in a terrible condition. Most of the faucets were broken, most of the doors were apparently locked, and you could hear water dripping behind them. When I was little, being there in the dark and hearing these noises, I imagined corpses hidden behind those locked doors, with their blood slowly washed away by the water drops. I avoided that place for years.

Lessee...bugs that sting/bite, dying alone, BEING alone, sometimes heights (other times they just make me occasionally uneasy), and what scares me worse than the POSSIBILITY of life's crappiness getting less crappy is KNOWING that the crappiness isn't getting better.

Also, I'm scared of trying to pick up girls because I'm shy, introverted, AND at times I'm both (there's a difference), and objectively knowing my flaws makes me terrified of the worst-case scenarios that would result from my going up to girls I find attractive (and knowing that "the least they could do is say 'no'" is still enough to stop me with fear and dread and other dark stuff).

Dammit, now I feel down, because that crappiness (and the realization of one of my deepest fears) made me attempt suicide 3 times before. Quick, somebody drill a hole into the sky that we can climb through to the stars!

I shouldn't have replied to this all wired and tired at 5:45 AM...

It's better to be right than liked. Really. I Just Want to Be Loved

Throw in Everything Is Trying to Kill You and you've got me.

Of course, this is why I love Thomas Ligotti...

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

Nothing Is Scarier. Way scarier.

I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial

The consideration that my ignorance is all that stands between me and a multitude of terrible truths, and that knowledge is being forced upon me against my will.

Swordsman Troper — Reclaiming The Blade — Watch

Why not an instance of Eye Scream for good measure too◊? Think I may have described my worst nightmare actually. Sorry for unleashing the horror.

edited 27th Feb '11 7:29:26 AM by AtomJames

Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.

Add a non-comedic Groin Attack to that.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Being completely alone, having everyone leave me.

Lonlinest sucks.

Permanent injury.

Evil deities.

People I care about dying.

Death caused by something completely ordinary going wrong, like a microwave exploding or something crazy like that.

Swarms of stinging insects.

An evil god killing me and everybody I care about with an exploding microwave powered by stinging insects, and in the afterlife I lose the use of all my limbs.

But in fiction, I don't think Stephen King would be able to make the above sentence scary, so I'll go with Nothing Is Scarier.

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My worst fears are a person's personality being warped to something evil, being unable to protect a loved one from a horrific fate, and slooshy transformations.

Sign on for this After The End Fantasy RP.

Real life: Egosyntonic mental illness. The idea of getting a physical disease that no professional understands. Being completely abandoned or ignored while in trouble. The effects one's own past mistakes might have had on the lifetimes of others. Being a danger to those I love. Hurting other people without knowing it. Entering a physical fight and discovering I am no match for the other person. Breaking and entering. Large dogs.

Stuff that turns up in my nightmares a lot: Not being able to find something or some place when my future depends on it. Again, being completely abandoned or ignored while in trouble. Discovering I missed some huge assignment that will determine whether I passed the class. Discovering that I have a class that I didn't know about, thus never attended, and thus failed. Being chased. Being stuck in the same location as someone who, if they saw me, they would start chasing me. Being mute in a situation where calling or asking for help would be advisable. Anatomy that does/should not exist in nature. Involuntary surgery. Machines that do creepy shit. People I love in real life turning on me.

Fiction: Parasitic aliens. No, really; that's about it.

edited 27th Feb '11 7:44:17 PM by SPACETRAVEL

whoever wrote this shit needs to step on a rake in a comedic fashion

My fears:

• Being controlled by people - Compelling Voice is Nightmare Fuel for me

• My parents not loving me, or being blatantly unfair and hurting me

• Someone hurting a cat (a story with a cat being harmed tends to give me nightmares, it gets much more reaction than anything happening to a human)

• A realistic bad situation that could easily happen to me (House Rules freaked me out for this reason - I could see myself reacting the same way or worse to police troubles)

edited 27th Feb '11 8:31:03 PM by Ettina

If I'm asking for advice on a story idea, don't tell me it can't be done.

The only recurring nightmare I've ever had has been about being inside, grabbed and picked up by something invisible, and dragged into the sky.

The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable

I'd say that my greatest fears are being betrayed by one of the very few people in my life that I'm close to, having a mental breakdown due to a bunch of minor annoyances and doing something I'll regret for the rest of my life, death by being frozen or buried alive, and (due to a childhood incident) dogs in general.

I have personally used Nothing Is Scarier and some foreshadowing when I wrote a Horror short story  ^*

for an 8th Grade English class.  ^*

^{All copies electronic or otherwise were lost.}

Both of them I think work really well.

As for things that scare me, I have a fear of heights as long as I am capable of seeing people below me.  ^*

Also not being in control of my body, and not being able to communicate that I need help regaining that control.  ^{More visual decription}

^{The puppet becomes aware of the puppet master, and does not want to be a puppet anymore. He can't communicate his wishes, because the puppet master is controlling him all of the time}

Has ADD, plays World of Tanks, thinks up crazy ideas like children making spaceships for Hitler. Occasionally writes them down.

I've done the emotional betrayal thing.

• Being caught on a ledge from any height above four metres.

That is the scariest thing to me. I have a fear of heights.

Except for the concept that I might lose my sight or hearing... but that's more tragedy than fear.

"You've got your transmission and your live wire, but your circuit's dead." - Media

Well.. what scares me the most? I've been doing nothing for the past several months (and I mean NOTHING) but reading, writing, watching, and playing horror material. You see, I just don't get scared anymore, not since... events happened in my life. I want to GET scared.

But, to put things very simply, the only things in media that scare me are Nothing is Scarier and insects/arachnids. Except at least I like being scared of the former. >_< I will admit that Complete Monster parental figures in fiction tear at all my fears, too. Especially when it's an abused kid who grows up to be a Complete Monster. That terrifies me. ._.

edited 28th Feb '11 10:55:14 PM by DJay32

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In an unrelated note, does anyone know how to post picture for their avatar?

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Being betrayed. By somebody close to me. As in, finding out they're a completely different person than they seemed to be. The realisation that the person I had so much respect for was just a facade, and not knowing who to trust in the future. Paranoia Fuel.

Being completely helpless while somebody close to me is suffering. Really wanting to reach out, do something, anything to try to help, but not being able to.

Body Horror. Losing a limb. Losing an eye. Or having an illness slowly destroy my body.

Failure. Trying really hard, but it turns out to be all for nothing.

...

Btw dRoy, you just click "forum top", go to "edit your forum profile", and upload an image from your computer.

edited 3rd Mar '11 1:24:38 PM by Xandriel

What's the point in giving up when you know you'll never stop anyway?

Got a weird one: in fiction, I've realised that being fucked around with too much by the author can unsettle me, if the in-story consequences are sufficiently unpleasant or if it means things don't behave as they should.

For example, I initially found the pumpkins in Jailbreak and the weapon glitch and the windows in Problem Sleuth oddly nightmarish. Probably in part because, in my nightmares, reality tends to actually work like that.

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I was watching a documentary on lobotomy and Walter Freeman the other day and I've been haunted by photos of people with ice picks stuck up their eyelids... Normally medical(ish) stuff doesn't bug me, but that just creeped me out really badly...

Though Nothing Is Scarier gets me too. My mind wanders easily so getting it to go off on something horrible is usually bad...

And this is kind of pathetic, but I can't not freak out over stuff jumping out at me no matter how stupid it is. I'm incapable of dealing with haunted houses and Halloween trails because of this.