Not sure how i feel about this one. Another story that grabbed me with a basic image…just not sure how i feel about it. Odd, yes, but not sure if it's really creepy enough.
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(account deleted)As soon as I saw that picture, I knew that Gears wrote this. As usual, I was not disappointed.
Could be worse.
You just get the refined product, i have the deal with the raw horror sludge that i seem to collect daily.
God help us all if i ever figure out how to work that one dream with the burning clouds and the demon skeletons coming out of the tap in to a story…
Where do you get all these amazing pictures? The story didn't really grab me until I saw the picture, at which point I stopped thinking "What SCP could have done this?" and started thinking "OH SHIT! ZOMBIE-MUMMIES!"
I pick them up here and there, wherever and whenever i see something unsettling, creepy, or odd. The hope is, at some point, they'll inspire me, or fit an idea i have, somehow. I also think it's odd that mummified zombies haven't been explored more in fiction. Yes, they'd probably be more stiff and such, but if you're going to have the dead walk, they may as well shuffle too.
It's the old woman's expression that gets me in this picture. There's this…resignation in it that is kind of compelling.
Where's the actual picture from? Aside from the story, it's kind of funny to see this old lady with a huge zombie prop
"This is the image of 1934 - Greece, Vezoneus family had a strange hobby, collecting the embalmed corpses of their loved ones …"
(Does knowing make it better, or worse?)
IT MAKES IT WORSE BECAUSE ITS NOT A PROP AAA
http://archive.org/stream/humanpaleopathol00ortn/humanpaleopathol00ortn_djvu.txt
According to this report, the townspeople had been burying clergymen and such underneath their church since the thirteenth century. During remodeling in the 16th and 19th centuries it became apparent that the corpses had been mummifying in their tombs.
So they weren't actually storing corpses of loved ones, which is less dramatic, but does allow one to sleep at night…>.>
Every time I found out something was written by DrGears, I cautiously scroll down to see if there's a scary/creepy and disturbingly realistic picture at the bottom….You did it with SCP-106, Sa Jin (Photo), this one, who knows what others…I think you've managed to invent stationary jumpscares.
heh, thanks. I've worked a few years at haunted houses, and the best scares are the "set up" types. It carries over in to written work as well…just keep people watching what your right hand is doing, while the left lights a firecracker. The key is to suggest just enough to make the brain work…then hit with something more solid, like a photo. The brain, already in a imaginitive state, suddenly has a foundation to build on…and oh mama, does it build.
at least, that's how i've always viewed it. it's actually rather hard to find photos that fit really well…i'll have to go digging again soon, see what i can turn up.
I'll just say what everyone actually wanted to:
FOR F███'S SAKE! DON'T. PUT. PICTURES. THAT. WAY!
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[E] Sorry for that, I guess. The jumpscare really hits if you turn your head to other side, scroll down and then there is a granny with a mummy on your screen.
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