Reading Mexican Gothic, apparently it’s supposed to be creepy. Either it’s actually not as creepy as people say it is, or my creepy-tolerance is really high. Idk about you, but fungus is not creepy. I think it’s a well-written book, but not as creepy as I had been expecting it to be.
Then I wondered, well, if not that, what is creepy to me? Creepy can leak into the gore section.
If there’s a detailed description of how a person’s stomach is sliced open with a knife but somehow they are still moving and alive with maggots crawling in the raw cavities and folds of bloody tissue, and then a spider emerges from the guts, dripping with blood, and crawls out…then yes, I would hold my stomach during those scenes, creeped out. Sorry if I creeped you out
What creeps you out other than insects? I think insects coming out of places they’re not supposed to creeps most people out. But what else?
Dead things. Graves, cemeteries, morgues, dead bodies in general. My worst nightmares involve those things—literally, I’ve recently had a nightmare involving cemeteries and dead bodies—and they just creep me out a lot. Funnily enough, my mind likes to linger on this one scene involving a funeral, so idk???
Abandoned places also creep me out, I guess. Sometimes when I pass by a place that’s clearly abandoned, I wonder what’s lurking over there. Is it just abandoned? Is it haunted? Are there secret experiments or other sinister things being conducted at that site? It’s also a bit creepier if it’s in a city, because it just looks so dead compared to the lively area around it.
Now I want to read this scene… I find stuff like that gruesome but awesome. Haha
Well yes, insects and insects coming out of something like a broken doll or moldy food is creepy. That reminds me of a time when I bought dog food and started pouring it out and a bunch of crickets (alive) came out of it… I was freaking out.
Other things that creep me out?
People who are too nice. I don’t know why hahaha
Phone calls. My anxiety thinks it’s creepy.
The darkness. Very spoopy.
Clowns.
Motels in the middle of nowhere. All sketchy.
Being alone with a man I don’t know.
Dolls. I used to love them as a child, but now they’re creepy…
People sleep walking or sleep talking.
People who hunt and then display the animal on the wall as a trophy. Creepy and sickening.
Dead bodies creep me out, including the concept of a morgue, but I’m also drawn to weird things like that. Like, I find the cemetery to be a peaceful place despite its creepiness. I’ve wanted to visit one and walk around, look at how far back the years go, and even go at night… maybe even play the ouiji board. Or read or write there haha… I also used to want to be a mortician or a medical examiner. But zombies also creep me out and would make me think it would happen too haha.
Abandoned places, specifically hospitals and asylums. I find them creepy, but would still visit it.
There’s different levels of this: intellectual and emotional, for example. There’s things that are logically revolting: most things that get labeled triggering are plain creepy things that people shouldn’t have to endure.
And I’ll write some of that being intellectually disgusted with it, especially if I have to dwell there for ages to write it out.(Sometimes the most carefully handled scene takes a while, where you’re stuck thinking it out. It can be a bit like selling your soul.)
But emotionally creepy is different: it’s often something that is intellectually creepy, but not always. This is where you’re squirming because you’d like to crawl backwards out your chair to get away from this thing. It freaks you out. It might scare you. It reminds me of Pet Cemetery. Nothing wrong with resurrection, intellectually, but the twists Stephen King put to that is mentally disgusting and I’d like to not experience that again.
But I was very young when I read it. I might reread it and not be creeped out, being older.
Look, my dad had a habit of teasing his kids. Swiped his son’s ramen. Dad and I aren’t particularly visual, but we started talking about how ramen looked like a mass of wriggling tapeworms and he just handed it back and walked out, trying not to gag. He never had that thought before and he couldn’t adjust.
If the lighting was a little bit darker then yes. But in really good lighting like that? Meh, just weird-looking. Hasn’t crossed into the threshold of creepy.
My sister and I used to pretend we were aliens that only ate bugs and inedible nature things. Long noodles were worms, shell noodles were beetles, and rice was ant eggs mm delicious
in real life the feeling of my own body hair moving freaks me the fuck out. particularly my eyebrows.
in less real life the lady on the ceiling stuck with me more than any other horror story i’ve ever read or heard for some forsaken reason and i still have moments where i refuse to look up.
I find stuff like that gruesome but awesome. Haha
mm delicious