If this is the take, then its shallow. Cthulu / Great Old Ones, Lovecraftian horror, has a simple "solution’ to the question I pose.
“If you drop a cell phone into the hole, and see what’s inside of it, it only compels you far more deeply than ever before”. Lovecraftian / Cosmic Horror is about how observation is itself an act, and the act of observation is all you need to do to fall prey to Cthulhu’s mental control of you. And the more you understand the situation, its your very understanding itself that draws you deeper into the horror story.
Let me tell you a horror story. Lets say the god of this world is evil. But not only that, the very act of me telling you that “god of this world is evil” is enough to put you on god’s hitlist. The fact that you’ve even read this sentence, the omniscient god already knows you’ve been tainted by my words and its too late for you to be saved. (This is the story of “The Ring”. If you watch The Ring, it will haunt you, because its the very knowledge of the video-tape that traps you into the situation).
Okay, so I’m not a good writer. But there’s all sorts of ways that “intrusive thoughts” have been turned into a horror story by many different writers. There’s “better ways” to invoke a horrifying a mind-virus upon the reader (or in the case of “The Ring”, the viewer).
If this is the take, then its shallow. Cthulu / Great Old Ones, Lovecraftian horror, has a simple "solution’ to the question I pose.
“If you drop a cell phone into the hole, and see what’s inside of it, it only compels you far more deeply than ever before”. Lovecraftian / Cosmic Horror is about how observation is itself an act, and the act of observation is all you need to do to fall prey to Cthulhu’s mental control of you. And the more you understand the situation, its your very understanding itself that draws you deeper into the horror story.
Let me tell you a horror story. Lets say the god of this world is evil. But not only that, the very act of me telling you that “god of this world is evil” is enough to put you on god’s hitlist. The fact that you’ve even read this sentence, the omniscient god already knows you’ve been tainted by my words and its too late for you to be saved. (This is the story of “The Ring”. If you watch The Ring, it will haunt you, because its the very knowledge of the video-tape that traps you into the situation).
Okay, so I’m not a good writer. But there’s all sorts of ways that “intrusive thoughts” have been turned into a horror story by many different writers. There’s “better ways” to invoke a horrifying a mind-virus upon the reader (or in the case of “The Ring”, the viewer).