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* MAG 19 and 20 veer into ReligiousHorror as a priest (seen also in MAG 08) visits the house on Hill Top Road to perform an exorcism. When he prays for protection, something that isn't God answers. The Entity (likely The Desolation) possesses him and has him declare to the other Entity in the house, "I am not for you. I am marked." From then on, the thing inside him stops him from being able to say the words "Lord" or "Jesus," prevents him from praying, and whenever his old priest friends try to speak to him, all he hears is the tolling of bells. It makes him hallucinate vividly, to the point that he can't tell what is real and what isn't, and by the end it has him murdering and eating people he ''thought'' he was preaching and giving Eucharist to. The sheer helplessness of having experienced a [[TraumaCongaLine a series of supernatural traumatic events]] that he can't even ''pray'' about has him giving up on doing literally anything; he vows to take no action whatsoever, [[ICannotSelfTerminate including killing himself]], at the risk that he's hallucinating and might be unknowingly hurting someone else.
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* The Book of the Dead, which predicts the reader's death in all gory, gruesome detail...but changes the circumstances every time you open it, so that you cannot use the knowledge of your death to avoid it.
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* The Book of the Dead, which predicts the reader's death in all gory, gruesome detail...but changes the circumstances circumstances, and moves the date closer every time you open open/read it, so that you cannot use the knowledge of your death to avoid it.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[CosmicHorrorStory Yeah. It's that kind of story]].]]
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** This is arguably made sadder, if not worse, in the [[http://www.robertkelseyillustration.com/a-guest-for-mr-spider Robert Kelsey illustrated version]]. In that one, Mr. Horse does indeed bring his son, but we get a close-up of said son covered in the spider's webbing, possibly implying Mr. Spider caught said son and Mr. Horse tried to keep him from being dragged off, but failed and was reeled in, too. The most horrible thing in the illustration is the finale close-up on Mr. Spider's front door, dark and bloodied, with it horribly clear the flies knew before knocking that something awful awaited them on the other side.
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** This is arguably made sadder, if not worse, in the [[http://www.robertkelseyillustration.com/a-guest-for-mr-spider Robert Kelsey illustrated version]]. In that one, Mr. Horse does indeed bring his son, but we get a close-up of said son covered in the spider's webbing, possibly implying Mr. Spider caught said son and Mr. Horse tried to keep him from being dragged off, but failed and was reeled in, too. The most horrible thing in the illustration is the finale final close-up on Mr. Spider's front door, dark and bloodied, with it horribly clear the flies knew before knocking that something awful awaited them on the other side.side.
*** There's also the series of images that show Mr. Spider, bloated from his meals and covered in gore, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou slowly turning to look at the reader]].
----> Mr. Spider wants another guest for dinner. It is polite to knock.
*** There's also the series of images that show Mr. Spider, bloated from his meals and covered in gore, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou slowly turning to look at the reader]].
----> Mr. Spider wants another guest for dinner. It is polite to knock.
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* The series starts off strong in MAG 01 with an AlluringAnglerfish that appears to be [[MeatPuppet using the bodies of former victims asking for cigarettes as a lure.]]
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* The series starts off strong in MAG 01 with an AlluringAnglerfish anglerfish that appears to be [[MeatPuppet using the bodies of former victims victims]] asking for cigarettes [[LuringInPrey as a lure.]]lure]].
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* MAG 81 involves a children's book called "A Guest For Mr. Spider". The contents alone are gruesome enough. What happens to the reader is far worse, after finishing reading, the reader is [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou compelled to open a door to the titular spider.]]
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* MAG 81 involves a children's book Leitner called "A Guest For Mr. Spider". The contents alone are gruesome enough. What happens to This Leitner made a particular impression on fans, as although Leitner tomes can be any kind of book, this is the reader is far worse, after finishing reading, first one seen that's mocked up as a ''children's book''. Jon describes a harrowing event from his childhood in which opening and reading the reader is [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou book compelled first him, then his childhood bully, to open walk up to a mysterious door to be devoured by the titular spider.]]entity.
** Jonny Sims' talent for insidious terror is well-played here. The book acutely comes off as something a child might innocently read without realizing something is wrong until it's too late, but which would be highly off-putting to adults from the word 'go'. As the story goes, Mr. Spider is visited by a succession of unsettled and frightened guests, flies who bring him gifts before disappearing. Mr. Bluebottle brings a cake, which Mr. Spider doesn't eat. Mrs. Fruit brings flowers, which fail to sway him. The last is the most disturbing--Mr. Horse brings ''his son'', [[DirtyCoward with the implication being he hoped]] [[WouldHurtAChild Mr. Spider would take his son instead of himself]]. Mr. Spider simply eats both of them.
** This is arguably made sadder, if not worse, in the [[http://www.robertkelseyillustration.com/a-guest-for-mr-spider Robert Kelsey illustrated version]]. In that one, Mr. Horse does indeed bring his son, but we get a close-up of said son covered in the spider's webbing, possibly implying Mr. Spider caught said son and Mr. Horse tried to keep him from being dragged off, but failed and was reeled in, too. The most horrible thing in the illustration is the finale close-up on Mr. Spider's front door, dark and bloodied, with it horribly clear the flies knew before knocking that something awful awaited them on the other side.
** Jonny Sims' talent for insidious terror is well-played here. The book acutely comes off as something a child might innocently read without realizing something is wrong until it's too late, but which would be highly off-putting to adults from the word 'go'. As the story goes, Mr. Spider is visited by a succession of unsettled and frightened guests, flies who bring him gifts before disappearing. Mr. Bluebottle brings a cake, which Mr. Spider doesn't eat. Mrs. Fruit brings flowers, which fail to sway him. The last is the most disturbing--Mr. Horse brings ''his son'', [[DirtyCoward with the implication being he hoped]] [[WouldHurtAChild Mr. Spider would take his son instead of himself]]. Mr. Spider simply eats both of them.
** This is arguably made sadder, if not worse, in the [[http://www.robertkelseyillustration.com/a-guest-for-mr-spider Robert Kelsey illustrated version]]. In that one, Mr. Horse does indeed bring his son, but we get a close-up of said son covered in the spider's webbing, possibly implying Mr. Spider caught said son and Mr. Horse tried to keep him from being dragged off, but failed and was reeled in, too. The most horrible thing in the illustration is the finale close-up on Mr. Spider's front door, dark and bloodied, with it horribly clear the flies knew before knocking that something awful awaited them on the other side.
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* The entity that is [[UncannyValley Michael.]] When we first hear about him, he's reaching into Sasha's shoulder--as in, reaching directly into Sasha's shoulder without breaking the skin--to remove one of the worms. When we first meet him, it's after a woman finishes describing her account of being caught in an EndlessCorridor after entering [[TheLonelyDoor a door which was apparently installed in a second-floor exterior wall and had not been there before]]. Michael has an incredibly creepy conversation with Jon, during which Jon realizes the woman left through a door which had not been there before.
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* The entity that is [[UncannyValley Michael.]] Michael. When we first hear about him, he's reaching into Sasha's shoulder--as in, reaching directly into Sasha's shoulder without breaking the skin--to remove one of the worms. When we first meet him, it's after a woman finishes describing her account of being caught in an EndlessCorridor after entering [[TheLonelyDoor a door which was apparently installed in a second-floor exterior wall and had not been there before]]. Michael has an incredibly creepy conversation with Jon, during which Jon realizes the woman left through a door which had not been there before.
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* MAG 86 takes the fear of the dark and turns it UpToEleven. When a creature made of darkness begins stalking the statement giver, his only protection is hiding himself under his blanket. The creature waits until he's lured into a false sense of security before telling him the blanket never offered him any real protection and attacking him.
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* MAG 86 takes the fear of the dark and turns it UpToEleven.up to eleven. When a creature made of darkness begins stalking the statement giver, his only protection is hiding himself under his blanket. The creature waits until he's lured into a false sense of security before telling him the blanket never offered him any real protection and attacking him.
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* There are several small hints throughout the series that, even ignoring the supernatural elements, the universe of the show is not our own--usually in the form of historical dates and dates given in the show not matching up. The final season reveals that the multiverse is absolutely a real thing... and the show ends with the Entities being sent to some ExpendableAlternateUniverse. Which raises a very real possibility that they might have ended up in ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou ours]]''. [[ParanoiaFuel Uh-oh]]...
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* Episode 193, the culmination of the quest to confront Elias/Jonah. We see a flashback of the ''real'' Elias during his interview with previous Institute Head James Wright, who is of course actually Jonah Magnus. Poor Elias suffers the absolutely diminishing and terrifying experience of being scanned and seen and ''known'' by Magnus. Magnus' voice, by the way, is ''utterly terrifying'', some horrifying mix of VoiceOfTheLegion and the drone of recorder static.
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*** It didn't, however he has been taken care of. His fate, however deserved, is [[AndIMustScream another kind of nightmare]].
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* MAG 81 involves a children's book called "A Guest For Mr. Spider". The contents alone are gruesome enough. [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou What happens to the reader is far worse]].worse, after finishing reading, the reader is [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou compelled to open a door to the titular spider.]]
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* Six episodes later, in Episode 145, [[AssholeVictim we find out that Gertrude Robinson did]] ''[[AssholeVictim something]]'' [[AssholeVictim to him.]] Something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies even Arthur Nolan, a lifelong cultist of the Desolation.]] We find out by the end of the episode, and it's... nightmarish.
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* Six episodes later, in Episode 145, [[AssholeVictim we find out that Gertrude Robinson did]] ''[[AssholeVictim something]]'' [[AssholeVictim to him.]] Something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies even Arthur Nolan, a lifelong cultist of the Desolation.]] We find out by the end of the episode, and it's... nightmarish.the result is Eugene's head being [[BodyHorror stuffed with sawdust]] whilst ''[[AndIMustScream still alive]]''. Horrifying.
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** In a similar vein, and working in the name of the same "entity", the one known as [[PlagueMaster John Amherst]]. He is strongly implied to be the same Amherst as the one in the "The Tale of a Field Hospital." The one who kept "dying" over and over only to keep spreading disease. If he touches you, or you touch something he's touched, that's it - you will die of some horrible disease. If, in "Taken Ill," Josh had shaken his hand, he would have died. If, in "Pest Control," Jordan Kennedy hadn't been wearing his protective suit when Amherst lifted him up off the ground, he would have died. And yet Amherst himself doesn't ''seem'' to be able to permanently die, unless being set on fire did the trick. Prentiss was a problem but, if Amherst ever shows up at the Magnus Institute's doorstep, he will likely be a ''[[TheDreaded nightmare]]''.
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* In a similar vein, and working in the name of the same "entity", the one known as [[PlagueMaster John Amherst]]. He is strongly implied to be the same Amherst as the one in the "The Tale of a Field Hospital." The one who kept "dying" over and over only to keep spreading disease. If he touches you, or you touch something he's touched, that's it - you will die of some horrible disease. If, in "Taken Ill," Josh had shaken his hand, he would have died. If, in "Pest Control," Jordan Kennedy hadn't been wearing his protective suit when Amherst lifted him up off the ground, he would have died. And yet Amherst himself doesn't ''seem'' to be able to permanently die, unless being set on fire did the trick. Prentiss was a problem but, if Amherst ever shows up at the Magnus Institute's doorstep, he will likely be a ''[[TheDreaded nightmare]]''.
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* Six episodes later, in Episode 145, [[AssholeVictim we find out that Gertrude Robinson did ''something'' to him.]] Something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies even Arthur Nolan, a lifelong cultist of the Desolation.]] We find out by the end of the episode, and it's... nightmarish.
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* Six episodes later, in Episode 145, [[AssholeVictim we find out that Gertrude Robinson did ''something'' did]] ''[[AssholeVictim something]]'' [[AssholeVictim to him.]] Something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies even Arthur Nolan, a lifelong cultist of the Desolation.]] We find out by the end of the episode, and it's... nightmarish.
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* Six episodes later, in Episode 145, [[AssholeVictim we find out that Gertrude Robinson did 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 to him.]] Something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies even Arthur Nolan, a lifelong cultist of the Desolation.]] We find out by the end of the episode, and it's... nightmarish.
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* Six episodes later, in Episode 145, [[AssholeVictim we find out that Gertrude Robinson did 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 ''something'' to him.]] Something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies even Arthur Nolan, a lifelong cultist of the Desolation.]] We find out by the end of the episode, and it's... nightmarish.
