I want to feel something watching me
What I really want is…
a fear that crawls, not screams
to be gently unnerved
the uncanny stitched into everyday life
Lyrical Horror / Existential Gothic / Surreal Dread
Mood Tags:
introspective · subtle · internal
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“Reality is always more disturbing when it insists on being reasonable.”
Samanta Schweblin

“I write about the monsters that live next door and the angels that forget to close their eyes.”
Caitlín R. Kiernan

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
Shirley Jackson

“He was not afraid of the human, he was indifferent to it.”
Patrick Süskind

"The line between ordinary and absurd is thinner than you think."
Sayaka Murata

“All of us are cursed, but some of us manage to live in such a way that the curse becomes a blessing.”
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

"The absurd isn't something to fear. It's home."
Franz Kafka

"Some violences are loud. Others are tender.”
Han Kan

“If there’s horror in what I do, it’s the horror of being trapped in a consciousness that can’t get out of itself.”
Brian Evenson

"Horror is not a genre. It is a condition."
Thomas Ligotti
I want to feel something watching me
What I really want is…
a fear that crawls, not screams
to be gently unnerved
the uncanny stitched into everyday life
Lyrical Horror, Existential Gothic, Surreal Dread
Mood Tags:
eerie · romantic · unsettling· dissociative

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Sayaka Murata

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Han Kan

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Brian Evenson

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Thomas Ligotti

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