Coming from the minds that gave us Welcome to Night Vale this is to be expected, but somehow this manages to still blindside us with how dark and horrifying it can get.
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- Everything having to do with The Thistle Man. After only one episode we get a glimpse into the horrors this show is going to have by giving us this deeply unsettling character that has Personal Space Invader and cannibalism under his belt. And now he has an interest in our heroine...
- Even worse when you get his physical description and most of the clothing he wears is yellow. Now, what else under the Night Vale Presents banner is associated with yellow and deeply unsettling?
- The town of Charlatan, an Eldritch Location on the level of Night Vale. The Narrator goes through it several times over the course of "Alice", and it changes every time she does. Her description of the town on fire, especially the old man crossing the street and burning alive, is particularly discomforting.
- Episode 3: Nothing To See is basically an entire episode of this concentrated. It starts with the Narrator hearing something in her trailer; something that sounds big and none to pleased to be in there. When she goes to check on it, however, she finds nothing, and resolves to continue on her way. This happens twice more, and in the third time who do we find but The Thistle Man, who seems to be able to use Offscreen Teleportation to follow her around. What follows (after the sounds of struggle) is a truly terrifying description of her assault and the revelation that whoever (or whatever) the Thistle Man works for has the police in its pocket and is well invested in keeping our heroine from finding Alice (who they know about). Sweet Dreams, folks.
- And at the end? He's still in the back of the truck.
- Fridge Horror on this one, but the girl the Narrator picks up at the end of episode 5 goes by the name "Sylvia Parker". Guess what one of the names on the billboards was.
- Episode 8: there's more than one Thistle Man! As a matter of fact, there's a whole TOWN of them! No wonder our poor Narrator is giving up!
- The narrator isn’t even safe after she goes home. The Thistle Men follow her, somehow getting into her house and terrorizing her. The worst part? She realizes that their intent isn’t just to kill her, or they would have done it already. They’re toying with her. To them, she’s as good as dead.
- Just take a listen to the episodes with the policewoman in them... she's so much more dangerous than any of the Thistle Men.
- There is no war. The conflict between Bay and Creek and the Thistle Men has been engineered by the government.
- The 'Police' woman tries to murder Keisha, and she makes some horrifying noises.
- Episode 26: Alice and Keisha expose everything, put absolutely everything out there, present the public with incontrovertible proof of the things they've been risking their lives to fight for years. Nobody cares.
