Is there a name for this specific kind of horror ?
Although some may say Lovecraft I beg to differ because Lovecraft is horror for the sake that you are but a speck and do not understand how insignificant you are to the greater cosmic beings.
With this something feels different. The more you learn the more it feels unnatural. You have already heard of evil and the devil but never thought you would have to face it/talk to it or never thought it was real and now that you have faced it you see that evil is a lot more cunning and charming then you where led to believe.
The best example would be the Witcher's Gunther O'dimm, Ladies of the Wood and things like the Blair Witch Project.
It shares some characteristics with Southern Gothic, OP, but at the same time it isn't. It is rural, yet it isn't.
Cunning and charming is Faustian, or what some people would say is Faustian, but that isn't quite it either.
So, yes, I need to know too.
Jackson Cruz
>the Witcher's Gunther O'dimm That guy was horrifying, I noped out of that riddle at the end and just let him drag Olgierd to hell or whatever, then declined any kind of reward.
Everything else in that game I was entirely not fussed about but Gaunter scared the shit out of me. He was just so unsettling and so different compared to everything else.
Kayden Young
You’re confusing genre with delivery, and the sensation you are describing is simply called “dread”. It’s literally just horror with actual tension and foreshadowing involved instead of replacing tension and plotting with buckets of pointless gore for shock value and cheap jump scares. Nothing Gaunter O’Dimm does or says is really that crazy or unknown to fiction, even specifically to fictional depictions of the Devil. It’s even pretty easy to figure out who/what he is as soon as you meet him the second time on the boat. The difference is that the DELIVERY is rock-solid and mixed with absolute perfect atmosphere, paired with great music and background context provided by the story.
The upside? It means you don’t need to search out a special genre to find it. Just keep practicing, working on delivery, and learning from your failures, and you’ll get it eventually.
Austin Miller
>”You can control time?” >”I like to think of myself more as a talented hobbyist. Besides, there’s only four dimensions after all. Which would you prefer me to be interested in, Width?”
Proof that you don’t need to be covered in evil armor or be hugely violent or have everyone talk about how powerful you are to be scary. You just need to be written properly.
Camden James
There's heavy influence from Gothic fiction here, sort of filtered though the perspective of the pulp era Weird Menice books (like HP Lovecraft's work).
The feeling of pervasive dread and the macabre, eerie atmosphere with unresolved questions and tension.
Nolan Sanchez
It's just a guy holding a skull, user. It's not that scary
Jaxon Myers
Faustian story?
Nathaniel Brooks
I present to you the exact opposite.
Robert Ramirez
I know this is bait but I'll bite
Kill yourself because if you haven't played this masterpiece of modern gaming you don't have a life worth living.
