YMMV / The Dark Pictures Anthology

• Complete Monster:
  • The Devil in Me:
    • Henry Howard "H.H." Holmes himself, real name Herman Mudgett, was America's first serial killer, and its deadliest. Having ran the World Fair Hotel as a front to kill his guests in painful ways, Holmes kept the skulls and rings of his many victims for his own amusement. Killing an innocent couple in the prologue before moving on to murder a mother and son, Holmes is found to have amassed a body count of over 200 victims, his influence inspiring the likes of fellow killers Manny Sherman and Granthem Du'Met.
    • Manny Sherman was a small-time Serial Killer who left behind a sinister legacy. Known as the "Beast of Arkansas" who sought to leave his mark on the world after being inspired by H.H. Holmes, Sherman would lure female realtors to abandoned houses near airports so that he could murder them as planes flew over them, happily knowing that nobody would hear their screams no matter how hard they yelled. With thirteen murders under his belt, after being arrested and put on Death Row by FBI Agent Hector Munday, Sherman manipulated the mentally deteriorating Munday into becoming a serial killer like himself, allowing him to become the dreaded Granthem Du'Met and kill hundreds of people, just as Sherman hoped would happen.
• Memetic Mutation: Due to Little Hope's controversial ending, there were jokes both from fans and critics of the series that the succeeding episodes would also be a dream or hallucination. This likely played a factor in House of Ashes having objectively real monsters.
• Spiritual Successor: The entire series shares a visual aesthetic and gameplay mechanics with Until Dawn, Supermassive's previous interactive horror breakout hit. To further underscore the connection, versions of "O Death" are used as the credits song for all of the games, starting with Until Dawn and continuing through every Dark Pictures game.

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