• Xariphon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I guess I just don’t get the scariness of it. It’s a little weird but “person feels compelled to enter hole, comes out wrong on the other side” just… idk wasn’t that scary to me?

    • Dark_Blade@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The body horror aspect is obvious, but the psychological horror is completely up to the reader. Some might find a particular relation to the whole ‘endless hole that I know I shouldn’t fall into, but I just can’t help it’ aspect, others feel triggered by the whole ‘fear of the unknown’ aspect, yet others can draw comparisons between this and self-destructive behavior of some kind.

      And others, like you, might not feel anything at all.