TITLE: TALES FROM THE GNYAR GIANTS PEN





“This is a collection of the best horror stories of Reddit (from 2010 - 2016)





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Collected here, are the Gnyar giants’ recommendations for terror.





The most inclusive selection of horror stories from subreddits like ‘nosleep’ and ‘The library of shadows’, the most terrifying, vile, chilling and unbearable short stories around. Stories giving a cross section of the most unique styles of terrifying writing and interactive fiction on the internet right now.





The internet. Yes. How it has consumed us. Every day we seem to make new connections, to lives fleetingly intertwined. We know so much of the life of others in this illumined age, and yet in the scheme of things we see so little. Should it really be any wonder that in the mutualised stories of our intertwined lives, some of us should start to notice : plot holes?:

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When reading and interacting become merged, the line between the author's pen and the killers knife is sometimes harder to differentiate, which is precisely what our protagonist found out in : correspondence :

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Once you start to read the Gnyar giants stories. You can't stop. This is precisely what the Gnyar giant wants. To draw you into the nest, and so we hope to stop you from thinking altogether and unleash that sticky film over your eyes, that sweat of utter absorbtion, that you may drop your defenses and enter: autopilot :

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Fear.

Fear is driven, often not by the monster under our bed, or the superstitious demons of the legends of our ancestors, but comprised of much smaller things. Sometimes clues and signs present themselves. These lead to obsession and compulsion, the very fabric of our sanity is slowly torn away as we start to look: Beneath the surface :

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Andrew Harmon achieves unique levels of tension and suspense in his story ‘The Deer Gods’. Casting a new mystique to a classic American hunting trip setting, Harmon doesn’t fail to create a supernatural chill which lasts beyond our first reading:

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Perhaps no evil has the power to chill as horribly, as that of ‘Mr Grabs’:

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Then, there is the rather terrifying artist ‘Antithesis’, who creates his own horrific and engulfing performance art, in: ‘The art of transubstantiation’:

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Spider_J explores the new storytelling medium of links and imagery, providing an ominous sense of the reader’s mind being drawn deeper into darkness. As if by fate, the reader does everything to avoid his curious instincts and disobey the warning to ‘Never, ever, go into the Morgue’;

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Exploring the medium of interactive fiction ’The Labyrinth’ provides a simple and pleasing method of links based choice, a labyrinth of anxiety stretching out in infinite directions, utilising perfectly the medium of the internet:

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For exploration of the medium, we also admired the writer of ‘Cavern exploration’ for creating very real tension and fear:

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For interactive fiction in the horror genre of course, one can’t go past the critically acclaimed ’Anchorhead’ by Michael.S.Gentry… which still stands as the undisputed giant in Lovecraftian interactive fiction. A must read for disciples of the Gnyar giant:

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As you slowly make your way through these stories, you may come to understand some underlying meaning, beyond it all, perhaps you will no longer find yourself innocently browsing ‘Reddit’ or ‘4chan’…but you too may understand the metaphor of ‘www.wallhorse.com’:

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For those who love the dark, they will be pleased to find how deep the night runs. In this strange tale directed by that elusive director of everything, the avatar known only as ‘Italiangoat’, one may find, like the protagonist in this story, you are being pulled deeper and deeper inside ’The Shadow Web’:

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Horror has taunted us, long before the world wide web was around,… How perfect a portal into the unreality of the past, tearing also our understanding of the present apart, is that which is portrayed in ’The Painting of a hallway’:

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Wdalphin’s use of the abstraction of space is perfect in creating a sense of claustrophobia, with the menacing figure in the painting seeming to become more and more powerful as the story goes on, culminating in the chilling sequel ‘All doors lead to the hallway’. So was this the same doorway that our protagonist looks out onto in the chilling tale of cosmic terror ‘The Beast and the Businessman’?:

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For more recent horrors, nothing could be more terrifying than the chilling tale of 'The Crimson Dandelion':

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Never has the unwanted invitation to terror been so well expressed as in the macabre tale: 'The New Caretaker of Cherckerspot Island'

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In so many of these strange cases, the medium is the message. Watch as the horror gets closer and closer to you, the ghost in the machine creeping into every device and technology you once saw as safe and protected from evil. For, horror is only ever a light ‘beep’ away in this modern world, we may still learn ‘how a single twitter message can really screw your night up’:

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The more we are exposed to it, the more nausea starts to encompass everything. An incoming horror, permeating from the corner of everything has never been so well expressed as it was in the demented tale ’Ripter Syndrome’:

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Faced with so much death. We may actually begin to prey to those dark forces, that would play with the very forces of nature, to raise up the dead. This short poem, which serves as a light of hope… to a transhumanist world, where death is conquered, makes us say a short prayer to the necromancer, to end the death and suffering, and find some satisfaction of eternity …Find some solace, in this, the haunting prose of ’The Lich’;

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If you enjoyed this wonderful collection brought to you by ’Black-lab’ don’t forget to check out ‘The Supervillain’ (If you haven’t already) where perhaps you may get a chance to glance upon the works of a true 21st century Necromancer:

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Finally we say goodbye and leave you with the short obituary that is ’The things that go on forever’;

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THANK YOU FOR READING ‘Tales from the Gnyar giants pen’.





COMING SOON to ‘blacklab’ publishing ‘THE EDGE OF REALITY’



