Just in time for Halloween!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So I happened upon this website, and this story in particular, and it's, um. Special. Really special. And it disturbed me a lot, although possibly not in the ways the author intended.

Please read it.

Please.

Please.



hxxp://www.thevoicebeforethevoid.net/north-dakota-devils-lake-2013-october-by-the-voice-before-the-void/

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Here is a teaser, if you are hell-bent on not reading this (and I wouldn't blame you if that was the case):

I awoke unnaturally, suddenly, opening my eyes, looking straight up. At the left side of my field of vision was a disembodied face.

I had been sleeping on my back on the sofa in the front room, where I usually sleep. I swivelled my eyes to look fully at the face. It was black and white: the planes of the face shone with white light; the lines of the face were dread-black. The pupils of the eyes were black and too large, almost but not quite filling the eye-slits, so that but small triangles of white shone at either side of the pupils. The nose was large and sharp and jutting, almost like a snout. The teeth were black and pointed, and the interior of the throat shone white behind them.

[Doktor Howl]

I plan to read this on Monday, in lieu of working.

[Reginald Ret]

THOSE FUCKING COMMAS.

[Reginald Ret]

This is really hard to read.
Maybe I should read it in the voice of Shatner.

[Reginald Ret]

I liked the monologue-ing against an empty kitchen but the ending sucked.

This is a much better story about the horrors of thinking meat.
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This is really hard to read.
Maybe I should read it in the voice of Shatner.

I know, right?

And I could almost taste the author's sense of their own cleverness when they used "sardony" as a word. TWICE.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

To be honest, the concept isn't so bad, even though it's horrendously overwrought; the idea that no non-corporeal horror is as terrifying as the fact that biological organisms eat each other in order to survive. The whole pigeon-killing ritual, though, was hilariously self-consciously occulty and the writing... well, it reminded me of Delgotha, so there's that.