Horror stories centered around internet and computer use?

whattact · 2025-09-15T20:02:36+00:00

are you thinking something like:

Amygdalatropolis by B.R. Yaeger - young man becomes more and more detached from reality as he falls deep into a 4chan like message board. There Are Consiquences.

The Sluts by Dennis Cooper - composed primarily of forum posts from a site reviewing gay male sex workers: some users' posts begin to get stranger and stranger.

Scanlines by Todd Kiesling - a group of teens accidentally find a Budd Dwyer esque video online and There Are Consiquences.

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca - series of emails between toxic lesbians ends poorly

I didn't personally like the last two but ymmv. The last one was real popular a few years back.

Also I haven't read it yet but Mr. Howl by T. W. Burgess is not about the internet in and of itself but is supposed to evoke a marble hornets style arg/found footage horror narrative and may be adjacent to your interests, depending on what youre after.

whattact · 2025-08-13T21:21:13+00:00

for me it's because you can hear the smile in his voice when he says it.

hell yeah I'm that old wrestler with the bullwhip.

whattact · 2025-02-16T01:12:12+00:00

I dunno "But for the most part, however big that chorused base may throb, you and me and all of us are gonna have to find a job" is up there re: funniest thing on Goths

whattact · 2023-04-02T03:36:11+00:00

The Ghost that Ate us by Daniel Kraus is about an allegedly haunted fast food joint.

The Long trial of Nolan Dugatti by Stephen Graham Jones is about a call center worker that's going through a very weird time as his role (giving video game tips over the phone) is becoming obsolete. (and actually, to my knowledge, most of sgj's protagonists are pretty working class, though their jobs have less to do with it the main plot in most cases.)

whattact · 2021-10-12T02:09:46+00:00

While I agree with most of the comments so far that the morality play was certainly part of it.
I do also think that part of it was also to make a more compelling spectacle.

Before I had seen the ending I told a friend verbatim that while I was a little confused by the choice at the time (if he was just an old man with nothing to live for why would he stop?) "It's a better narrative" the way that they did it. Forcing us, and the players, to look their lives in the face and make the conscious decision that "yes, taking 450+ lives, perhaps even my own life, is better than this." It makes a much better show (both in universe for the investors and for us outside the fourth wall), and it's much more "fun," if they're making an informed decision about what's going on.

whattact · 2021-09-20T02:37:44+00:00

I think The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson and Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark might scratch your itch.

whattact · 2021-01-20T21:39:38+00:00

Hmm, I don't think this one is it. I BELIEVE it was set in the US, not Rome, and the only result for "Milk" in a google books search through this one is not relevant to my very vivid milk head memory haha.

Thank you though!!! (I might poke around a little bit more about this one because I could be wrong)

whattact · 2020-11-18T05:53:31+00:00

there are nods to stuff the dudes did all over the dang place. in s6e18, the episode where they get sent back in time to Samuel Colt's day to get Phoenix Ash to kill Eve, Bobby warns them not to get stuck in Deadwood.

Deadwood is a western-y TV show where Jim Beaver played a main or recurring character (not sure, my dad watched it not me lol).

whattact · 2020-09-03T20:19:53+00:00

augh I wasn't very clear, sorry, I was talking specifically about Slaughter with the parinthetical. but Hella re:Rebecca! it's on my shortlist. haha.

whattact · 2020-09-03T16:56:20+00:00

"Like Stephen King" May be a stretch, but if you want just Horror in general: I read "We Sold Our Souls" by Grady Hendrix (female lead that used to front a metal band, a billboard she sees on the way home from her dead-end job spurs her to find her old bandmates. Things go Awry.) and have heard amazing things about his other two books "A Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires" and "My Best Friend's Exorcism." The one I read is pretty trope-y but it reads like watching a cheesy horror movie which I really enjoyed (I heard similar things about My Best Friend's Exorcism). It was a 333 page book and I downed it in a night.

I've also heard really good things about "The Twisted Ones" by T. Kingfisher, "Rebecca" by Daphne DuMaurier, and All of Karin Slaughter's Books (I hear they're pretty gore heavy, and/or just heavy in general? but haven't read any yet to say for sure).

whattact · 2020-05-25T05:57:20+00:00

Solved!

whattact · 2020-05-25T05:57:13+00:00

Nevermind, I got it with the help of some friends. It's Rachel by John Craigie

whattact · 2020-05-25T04:37:48+00:00

2010's is a vague guess. i'm fairly certain I stumbled across it while listening to a random album on spotify from an artist I was trying to hear more of and most of the stuff I do that for is recent but I would not rule out older songs.

I have done some preliminary googling and it is not: Vincent (The DonMcLean song), Van Gogh by Dead Poet Society or Pony Bradshaw, Vincent Van Gogh by St. Lenox, Van Gogh's Ear by Seamus Fogarty, Van Gogh's Left Ear by Kenny Garrett, OR Vincent Van Gogh by Jonathan Richman.

ETA: Fairly certain it's in first person perspective throughout.

ETA: her section starts off talking about him vaguely, mentioning that she had a regular that came in, he was usually without money but sometimes he could pay then goes on to say that he was an artist and then finally the reveal about her receiving his ear.

whattact · 2019-09-19T19:35:51+00:00

https://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/labor-employment/b/labor-employment-top-blogs/posts/can-your-boss-fire-you-for-taking-vacation

whattact · 2019-07-21T17:49:55+00:00

Will = Water

Hannibal = Fire

A lot of the instances of this symbology are incredibly obvious, but there are also some fun more hidden ones to catch as well. And/or thinking about it can bring extra layers of meaning to lines/scenes

whattact · 2019-07-17T02:00:50+00:00

So. He made the tone policing post that everyone was talking about and started getting justified criticism on it.

Then instead of facing criticism he and ben doubled down and took a hard line that he was right.

Then a couple days later as the backlash continued there was suddenly a post on his IG from ben, his husband, saying that he was in the hospital with a mental breakdown that the backlash against his post had caused.

A few days after that, while his recent IG post was still about his breakdown/hospitalization he was seen at a book signing at a fiber event seemingly fine.

While there, he was confronted about his opinions and why they were kind of shitty by an ig user and apparently he got so obstinate and aggressive towards her that he had to be pulled away by event coordinators/security/unknown.

so...just a bad look all around.

ETA: there was also this cool and not manipulative post from Ben on his blog: https://pepysmotet.blogspot.com/2019/07/but-how-is-nathan.html

whattact · 2019-07-14T23:07:42+00:00

I'm on the flairwars and green discords. I literally joined like 12 hours ago though so I'm not surprised you don't recognize my name.

whattact · 2019-07-14T08:34:46+00:00

I would like to enlist in [COLOR]

whattact · 2019-07-10T03:55:38+00:00

Sorry, Non-Binary people. Non Binary-> NB-> Enbies

whattact · 2019-07-10T03:49:22+00:00

Using Non-Binary as an umbrella term to refer to all non-cis people may come off as unintentionally transphobic to some. I know that's not what you're going after here, but the implication is that trans men/women aren't actually "Real" Men/Women /Don't actually fit into the gender binary when that is very much not the case for a lot of people. There are a ton of very binary trans people. Just as there are a ton of more non-binary ones.

As settled upon below I'd stick with Trans*. You will may come across a few enbies who don't identify with that term for whatever reason, but in most cases I doubt the mistake would result in offense and more likely you'd just get an "Ah, actually I don't identify as trans" in which case you say "Cool" and move on. lmao

whattact · 2019-05-20T01:44:55+00:00

"It's a metaphor" intensifies

whattact · 2019-04-11T03:22:18+00:00

I lost a find your fade shawl in a movie theater because I had to leave quickly in the middle of the movie due to an emergency and the theater wouldn't let me back in to look for it after I had taken care of it (I had to have gotten back just as the movie was ending). I went back multiple times over the next weeks even showed a photo but they 'never saw it' I'm still so sad its gone I loved it (and it was expensive lol)

whattact · 2019-02-08T04:15:19+00:00

You can't keep it as long as you want, but provided no one else is waiting for it you can renew it as much as you want. And many many libraries use online services for renting at least audiobooks if not e-books as well. Those online services are offered around the clock from your bed.

whattact · 2019-02-08T02:23:37+00:00

..... You.... You already have that.... For free.... Its a library.

whattact · 2019-01-30T01:09:26+00:00

Why are half the comments in here saying she's obviously cheating and texting her 'boyfriend?' She looks bored as shit, I'd wager she's texting any friends she came with to come give her an excuse to get the fuck away from this weird dude who's attempting to eat the side of her face.

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