#funhouse of frights

[tylermannart]

Clown House #18

The Demon Clown can sense the desires of it's prey, but he seems a bit confused that Kevin's desire is a "flex off", but he's not impressed by Kevin's decently muscular body. Read more Funhouse: https://tylermannart.ca/collections/funhouse-of-frights See ALL my comics: https://patreon.com/tylermannart

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: slasher

[brokehorrorfan]

Fright-Rags has released three The Funhouse designs by Jeff Zornow and Kyle Crawford. T-shirts are $30 each, and Zornow's art (left) is also available for zip-up hoodies for $55.

[spnscripthunt-inactive]

Here's over 500 horror film screenplays so you can learn about our shared cultural heritage.

Updated 12/08/2024:

The Bad Seed (1956)

When a Stranger Calls (1979)

The Shining [continuity] (1980)

Deadly Blessing (1981)

The Funhouse (1981)

Wolfen (1981)

Bad Dreams (1988)

Raising Cain (1992)

Serial Mom (1994)

Boogeyman (2005)

Bakjwi [aka Thirst] (2009)

Fright Night (2011)

The First Purge (2018)

The Substance (2024)

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[bubblybloob]

So, which run from Scarlet Hollow would you say has been your favorite until now? Any favorite trait/trait combo?

Favorite combo was the first I took of course, Mystical and Talk to Animals! You get to be so weird and everyone is so put off by your antics!

Some long ass rambling and spoilers below!

Individually, TTA can feel a little useless at some points, it’s never a passive ability so you only get use out of it when there’s animals around. It especially feels lacking in chapter 2, where there are two instance of running into wild animals (the bird and the bats) that feel weird since you don’t get to pause and chat with them and they don’t say anything noteworthy about ditchlings, the mines, the town, etc.

I get why it can feel like that, you don’t want players to feel they made a mistake choosing talk with animals by not having animals appear throughout a chapter, but you also don’t want player’s who didn’t choose it feel like they’re always missing out on important stuff by having too many animals.

I really think they should let more passive thoughts with TTA occur. The only instance I can recall of it appearing as a thought is if you’ve had Sybil’s tea and it’s like “she won’t judge you for your quirk :), go talk to her”. It caught me so off guard when I first saw it and Mystical pointing out that my thoughts were all weird made me almost stand up like “WHAT”. But even though it doesn’t sound like TTA would have passive moments where it’s not directly in action, I think it should, maybe our character is privy to random facts woodland critters have told us, or we’re more in tune with nature or something. Idk, it’s not useless and it’s incredibly hard to compare it to the other traits cause it essentially makes previously non-characters like Dustin or the Goat into characters, that’s something no others trait does.

Now for my more positive thoughts on TTA, damn is proving you can actually understand animals at the library so satisfying, and it stays satisfying as Kaneeka slowly comes to believe it herself over the course of the chapters! I'm so glad it seems to be getting taken more seriously by the characters as the chapters pass, we start by getting introduced to the trait in chapter 1, then we don't use it much in the second, then we get to talk to the mayor and, if Gretchen is alive, get the knowledge that something is up with Reese. And then we can learn that the PASTOR TALKS TO ANIMALS TOO. In chapter 4 visiting Pastor Daniel is great, I love that the game is setting up for TTA to have more of a spotlight.

Now Mystical. Mystical is probably my favorite trait. I've heard some people say it feels useless early on, and I think those people may not have played with it in their first run, cause going in blind with mystical makes you aware of a lot of stuff, like knowing someone will die out on the trails on Monday before it actually happens made me so tense, and knowing something is suspicious about Sybil when she gives you that look, or that "You're finally back where you belong" sending the shivers of foreboding up the spine!

It gives you longer visions if you have it (and are drinking Sybil's evil tea), so it's great for me who loves theorizing and lore. And the channeling of Charlie’s spirit in his funky funhouse of fright? That whole sequence with the seance options is what truly got me hooked on the game.

I also love how it seems mystical MC’s can be a little frustrated by chapter 4? The whole “hopefully my powers will finally do more than make me unwillingly channel ghosts” makes you sound so fed up with how not only are you forced into knowing things will happen and having no control over it, but also fed up with how no one takes you seriously. Like Stella seems a little excited at the prospect you could be a psychic when meeting Duke, and Avery is chill with everyone so they don’t judge you, but everyone else brushes you aside or looks at you weird. Also Sybil, fucking Sybil trying to make me feel my abilities are less than her’s during the tea reading. Lady I will find a way to have me and your daughter mystic blast you, you can’t even do anything without making people drink tea, suffer.

Anyway sorry for the rambling! I’m obsessed with this game, so much so I joined the discord, I rarely join stuff like that due to nerves, so that’s how you know the brainrot is REAL.

[lorena-art]

Traces of Magic on the Asphalt

If Bernard had known what he was getting into when he set out to investigate the centuries-old conspiracy in Gotham, he'd probably… nah, whoever he's trying to kid, he would have done it anyway.

or a little unfinished drabble about Timbern where Bernard is a conspiracy theorist and Tim is the conspiracy.

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Listen, Bernard loves his conspiracy theories.

The idea of uncovering secrets that have been jealously hidden, the act of knowing, of knowing something that few others do gives him a sense of fulfillment that few other things achieve.

He knows that most of the time what he finds is garbage, carefully planted to divert attention and entertaining enough to keep him distracted at times, his attention captured momentarily before he returns to the hunt.

But there is no way his attention can be taken for long before he returns to the path he has laid out for himself. The path he decided on when, at the age of ten, he was saved from the white, green and red jaws of death by that little feathered monster in red and black.

Robin (The third).

He remembers it clearly, even as other memories of his childhood fade and are gradually lost among the recesses of his brain, even as he cannot, for the life of him, remember what birthday present his parents gave him that year or the address of the house in which he lived the first years of his life. 

He distinctly remembers walking to the store just a couple of blocks away to buy a ice popsicle with a couple of loose change he found in the washing machine. A heat wave was stalking Gotham and his parents forbade him to turn on the air conditioning until they got home to save electricity.  He remembers being on his way back from the store savoring his prize, when someone had grabbed his free hand and started pulling him toward the alley.

"Junior, son" he remembers the voice, mocking, sour and frightening "Let's go home to mommy."

He remembers letting go of the ice popsicle from fright, trying to free himself and yelling at the figure that his name was not "Junior" and to let go, only to be met with a face that still haunts his most terrifying nightmares to this day.

The wax doll-like face, white and bony, his green eyes glowing and a smile of yellow, rotting teeth framed by red lips that opened far wider than human faces allow.

He remembers screaming for help and being mysteriously ignored as the alley grew closer and the terrifying monster's grin grew bigger and bigger.

"We'll be a happy family, you'll see Junior" the thing hummed and Bernard had felt himself about to vomit when the smell of something very rotten hit his nose and made his eyes water with disgust and not just fear "Just a few fixes and you'll be my perfect child."

Remembers the door that appeared at the end of the alley. It was painted in bright, festive colors, with stars and colorful balloons painted on the frame, identical to what a funhouse would look like. The door had opened, letting him see a black, slimy tunnel inside, and at ten years old he knew from the bottom of his heart that if he went in there, he would never come out again.

He remembers crying out loud and biting his captor's arm (he would never forget the taste of rotting flesh in his mouth) as he was slowly dragged toward the open door that was not far from a mouth preparing to swallow him.

Then he saw it.

A black and red shadow that threw itself from the roof screeching a war cry, landing on the kidnapper and severing the arm that held him with a jagged slash of its razor sharp claws. Bernard fell on his backside as he witnessed his attacker being turned into sticky mush that seeped between the alley drains, flooding the whole place with an indescribable odor.

He remembers to turn around and vomit up the contents of his stomach.

He didn't realize how much time had passed until he felt a hand tentatively stroking his back, trying to soothe him.

The bird boy (as he would call him until he discovered the legend of Robin) stayed there until he could breathe properly and had calmed down enough for them to get him away from the alley and the rotting mass they had left behind.

The bird boy was about his age. His body was a mixture of bird and human. The most striking features of his appearance were the red wings on his back and his legs, deformed to resemble those of birds, ending in long, strong, twisted fingers with claws, which he had smashed Bernard's kidnapper.

Robin covered him with those wings and comforted him, carrying him to the door of his house, while assuring him that he was safe.

"Don't go out alone from now on" the bird boy had warned him pointing at him with one of its black talons "That will find another corpse to inhabit and might come after you again if you caught its eye" there was a movement and the creature was perched on one of the light poles that lit the entrance to Bernard's building "Take care of yourself, child"

"Bernard" had managed to get that one word out of his mouth at the end of their interaction.

It had brought a smile to Robin's face.

"Take care, Bernard."

When the boy bird finally took off, Bernard found himself holding an ice pop of the same flavor he had dropped. Even to this day, the sense of security that coursed through him every time he thought of his rescuer was strong.

And he never forgot him.

And even better, he never stopped looking.

And now another ten years in the future, he is very close to finding it.

Bernard moves slowly and plugs another piece of red wool into his board.

The entire view of his room is a jumble of photographs, documents (all written down, to avoid virtual espionage) and maps of the city.

all connecting perfectly to give him the answer he have been looking for.

The red threads are tightly entangled and connected in the center of his board over the Wayne family photograph.

Or rather, the former protectors of the city.

[spacely0]

HORROR MOVIE RECS

♦ top tier ★ all-time fave

slashers: ♦intruder friday the 13th part 2 sleepaway camp 2 stage fright scream ★♦cold prey (Fritt velt) 1 & 2 texas chainsaw massacre 1 & 2 wrong turn halloween 1 & 2 & H2O A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors 1987 Child's Play 1 & ♦2 ★♦Curse of Chucky Phantom of the paradise Popcorn 1991 Club Dread My Bloody Valentine 1981 ★♦Society 1989 ♦Psychopath AKA Der Poppen Murders The Funhouse 1981 Peeping Tom happy brithday to me 1981 black christmas ★♦Sceance Maniac (the one with elijah wood) hell fest ♦Just before dawn 1981 Maniac Cop

scifi horror: The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 ♦The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 ★♦Bride of Frankenstein 1935 ★♦the stuff ★♦the fly 1958 ★♦invasion of the body snatchers 1978 ★♦the thing ♦the faculty ★♦from beyond ★♦re-animator 2 ★♦prince of darkness 1987 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 ♦Pandorum Dr jekyll and sister hyde ★♦the brood ★♦its alive 1974 & it lives again 1978 killer klowns from outer space 1988 Quaatermass and the Pit 1967

hauntings/curses: ★♦burnt offerings 1976 haunting in connecticuit conjuring 1 & 2 insidious 1 & 2 & 3 & 5 ★♦ evil dead 1 & 2 & 2013 final destination 1 & 2 & 5 house (hausu) 1977 Kairo (pulse) 2001 the grudge (japanese & american) ♦ dark water Night of the Demon 1957 ♦The changeling 1980 ★♦The Hole in the Ground 2019 Whispering Corridors

folk horror: midsomar ♦ Viy 1967 ♦ impetigore 2019 ★♦ the wickerman 1973 Burn Witch Burn the medium

catholic horror: ♦ The Devil Rides Out 1968 ★♦ the sentinel 1977 nun II ♦ exorcist III

weirdos: ♦basket case 1 & 2 ♦it follows A dark song ★♦The Perfection The Empty Man ★♦The Skull 1965 Beyond the Black Rainbow dead ringers i, madman 1989 messiah of evil 1973 ★♦The People under the Stairs 1991 ★♦The Reflecting Skin 1990 ★♦Carnival of Souls

zombies: ★♦the video dead dawn of the dead 1978 & 2004 dead and buried i walked with a zombie ♦plague of the zombies The Serpent and the Rainbow

monsters: ★♦Sweetheart 2019 The Gate 1987 The invisible Man 1933 ♦Wishmaster 1997 Warlock ♦the mummy's shroud 1967

vampires: Shadow of the Vampire 2000 ★♦ Martin ★♦Captain Kronos -vampire hunter The Brides of Dracula 1960 ★♦the night stalker & the night strangler salems lot 1 & 2 ★♦son of dracula 1943 subspecies 1 & 2 & 4 from dusk til dawn Vampire Hunter D 1985

werewolves: the howling 1981 ginger snaps the beast must die!

death traps: ★♦The Pit and the Pendulum 1961 saw escape room ★♦Theatre of Blood 1973 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 haunt

found footage: ♦Host 2020 Unfriended 1 & 2 Cloverfield Final Prayer Gonjiam: haunted asylum grave encounters hellhouse LLC ★♦Willow Creek ★♦noroi the curse occult ★♦ghostwatch ♦V/H/S 1 & 2 & viral

★♦ ALL the Amicus horror anthologies are worth watching

[selfmenticide]

@wrfstchc \ cont'd [ x ]

she felt familiar , looked so too . that crinkle in his eye , this bushy mustache . by god , it was like looking in a funhouse mirror almost ! not in a bad way , of course . william wasn't unaccustomed to a similar face or two , having collected a few friends in his own likeness in all these years , but this person almost felt akin in SPIRIT . thankfully , the colonel wasn't one for the spiritual , twin flames or all that . what was in the present , what was factually based , and what could be observed were what were most keen on his mind . a thick stache twitches as the raven pouts , brows furrowing as he noted the way the life in the other's face seemed to die all together .

will felt a tinge of concern wash over his features as the stranger stared blankly , their spaced out speech making the man instinctively raise a hand out to clasp upon her shoulder . " gadzooks , my friend . you're as pale as a sun bleached sheet ! " calloused hands go to pull wilford to sit , as if concerned she would pass out on the spot in front of him . " you look like you've seen . . . a GHOUL or a ghost ! " the colonel can't help but give a boisterous laugh , retracting his touch as he bent at the knee to crouch near the eccentric man .

" i'm deeply sorry if i gave you a fright , simply couldn't help but comment on the similarities . i'm the colonel , i assure you i mean no harm , my friend . "

[springtrappd]

just like. god i can't figure out how to articulate it, but i have very little faith that the second fnaf movie will turn out Good in the same way the first one was? for the same reason the charlie trilogy ate itself alive: it blew its load on the first installment and now has to wiggle its way out of it. like, the problem with the back half of the charlie trilogy is that the main villain is gone, they beat him, he's springtrap now! and the story must continue from that point, it requires a conflict to justify itself, but there are no antagonists on the board; springtrap is by nature on his back foot, all his power clawed back despite the odds... but that power isn't the same as what william afton wields, and that's the Big Problem, because where the fuck do you go when your primary villain is a guy trapped in a place unable to do anything? how do you start a game when you've played all your pieces?

it's the problem that tto found itself in: it needs to draw charlie back to freddy's, but you can't have a new freddy's open when the franchise is dead, and you can't have springtrap control the animatronics when they're either settled or detained, etc etc etc. so instead you have an entire book about getting afton back in a place where he can do, like, actual things, and not just loom over the narrative ominously -- and that's not inherently bad! i think tto does a pretty good job at what it has, and it's probably the one i had the best time reading overall because of its unique ideas and heavier mystery angle. but it's also the one that ends with classic freddy tearing apart a horde of balloon boys in the middle of a bloody battle royale in henry emily's secret psychedelic funhouse basement, so. you can kinda see how you eventually get tfc out of that.

and tfc is just, like, the end result of a dozen different drafts you've switched through in a couple of months with no time for anyone to ask you what the fuck you're doing. most of it doesn't make sense, it's paced like shit, the main character gets fridged, it retcons the retcons made in tto, contradicts itself all the fucking time and -- perhaps the most emblematic of how obviously it wasn't planned -- afton just crawls out of the springtrap suit and is afton now, with an entire scene dedicated to how that was dumb and stupid and they're doing this now. complete with... a new freddy's joint and animatronics! (you didn't think i was pulling those examples out of my ass, did you?)

it's the kind of writing you get when you're too scared to introduce a new antagonist and when you don't have anyone to tell you that an idea is bad, which is -- funnily enough -- the exact same problem with frights, and pre-mimic steel wool era (and post-mimic cataclysm, i gotta be honest), and it's a problem that's very difficult to solve when you're stuck in a situation like this. thankfully, it's one that's made much easier when you have additional support to lend their ideas! it's... just a question of whether that support is allowed at all.

tldr please pray that they keep smacking scott's hands away from the SURPRISE ROBOT button

[vexic929]

Spooky prompt 11 please... And... Uh... Your choice on who since I don't know you well yet.

#11 "I wish these teeth were real" from this prompt list info on Berrie here

Siv belongs to @negative-speedforce Berrie is mine

"I wish these teeth were real." Berrie said, prodding the fake fangs Siv had helped her apply.

"No you don't, then you'd look like Eoland all the time." Siv said with a snort, adjusting the cape of their own costume.

"Maybe I want to, you don't know." Berrie countered, baring his teeth in the mirror. "Should I swap out my smiley piercing? I want double fangs."

"It'd just cover the other fangs up." Siv argued. "C'mon, let's get going."

The moment they'd left the building, Berrie made a beeline for the Halloween carnival, buzzing with excitement and ready to eat her weight in sugar.

"Funhouse or cotton candy? Ooh or the mirror maze! Look, there's a hayride and they're selling those giant Pixi Sticks!" Berrie said, talking a mile a minute.

"You're going to end up swallowing one of those fangs." Siv teased, but their smile showed she was happy to indulge Berrie's enthusiasm.

"A haunted house, let's go!" Berrie said, grabbing Siv's hand and pulling her along behind him.

Berrie and Siv entered the haunted house, both eager to be spooked. Siv wasn't particularly impressed with the low budget frights but Berrie jumped and squealed at every scare. By the last room, Berrie was clinging onto Siv's arm and practically hiding behind them.

"It's not that scary." Berrie said but his voice was muffled as his face was hidden in the back of Siv's shoulder.

"Then why are you hiding? Come on, it's the last room. Then we can go get candy." Siv coaxed, tugging Berrie along slowly through the dimly lit room.

Berrie slowly removed his hands from Siv's arm and took two more hesitant steps forward, peering around with wide, hazel eyes. As soon as he saw there was nothing to fear, he broke into a fit of giggles and then bolted for the exit.

[sweethoneyrose83]

 Fazbear Frights

Dr. Rabbit

Gregory peered through the grimy window of the abandoned strip mall, his heart pounding like a jackhammer. This place had an eerie reputation, especially since the incidents at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. But he needed to find something here, something that could help him understand what had happened to his friends.

As he cautiously pushed open the rusted door, a wave of dust and decay assaulted his senses. The air felt heavy with secrets long buried. Gregory swallowed hard, pushing down the fear that threatened to paralyze him.

His flashlight flickered to life, casting long shadows on the cracked linoleum floor. The sound of his footsteps echoed in the empty corridor, making him jump at every creak and groan.

Gregory scanned each storefront, searching for any clue that could lead him to the truth. That's when he spotted it—a faded sign that read "Dr. Rabbit's Funhouse."

Curiosity mingled with dread as Gregory approached the entrance. The once vibrant colors of the sign had faded to a sickly hue, and the gaping maw of the rabbit's mouth seemed to leer at him menacingly.

Steeling himself, Gregory pushed open the door and stepped into the darkness beyond. The air was thick with the smell of mildew and something far worse.

His flashlight swept over the dilapidated carnival games and faded posters plastered on the walls. There was something unsettling about the way the eyes of the cartoon characters seemed to follow him.

As he ventured deeper into the funhouse, Gregory's sense of unease grew. It was as if the very walls were closing in on him, suffocating him with their silent malevolence.

Suddenly, a noise shattered the oppressive silence—a low, guttural growl that seemed to reverberate through the very foundation of the building. Gregory froze, his heart hammering in his chest.

He turned slowly, his flashlight illuminating the source of the sound. Standing before him was a grotesque creature—a twisted amalgamation of man and machine, its eyes glowing with a sinister light.

Panic surged through Gregory's veins as he stumbled backward, his mind reeling with terror. This was no ordinary animatronic—it was something far more sinister, something beyond comprehension.

With a primal instinct, Gregory turned and fled, his footsteps echoing through the darkened corridors. Behind him, he could hear the creature's unearthly howls growing louder with each passing moment.

He burst through the door, his lungs burning with exertion as he raced into the night. He didn't stop until he was a safe distance away, his heart still pounding in his ears.

As he caught his breath, Gregory knew one thing for certain—he had stumbled upon something far more sinister than he could have ever imagined. And whatever secrets lay hidden within Dr. Rabbit's Funhouse, he was determined to uncover them, no matter the cost.

[goryhorroor]

favorite horror movies (61-90)

[funbonded]

/ oh yes spoilers for ruin below one of the many secrets in the game so you've been warned if you want to go looking for secrets. BIG SPOILERS TOO SO AVOID.

The blob appears very briefly in chapter 1 blink and you miss it. But it got me thinking though I have a verse here for Blobby it's more in the same vein that some William muns have a Burntrap verse still too. I feel like because Funfred and the gang actually left their bodies via scooper that this amalgamation is probably just collecting animatronic masks the same way mimic collects mascot costumes etc. But I like to think it's a mass of past souls/animatronics and is separate from Funfred. That being said it's wearing my pandas mask and he was last seen in the Pizza Place so he could still be apart of it.

It's kind of like in Count The Ways the main antagonist pulling all the strings at the end of the Frights novels was Eleanor. It's okay to ignore it if its more fun for you to do so. It's okay to still have a Burntrap verse for William even if you feel deflated by cannon that it may not be him. You can also perceive the mimic being slightly in a different part of the sinkhole as a blessing to see the Afton ending however you want. Funfred doesn't cannonly have a Funhouse or even appear other than on the Blob in Security Breach at all but I'm still doing this bs. The point is do as you will you're so creative just write what makes you happy

Same with Gregory. I don't hate him, I don't think people should hate him but if they do that's fine too, with all the vocal mimics around, not just the mimic can imitate by the way, it could have been anything you like or ended in anyway you want to perceive that's the beauty of FNAF. It's all shrouded in mystery.

I don't mind the mimic tricking Cassie though I saw it coming and I think a lot of people did.

[scribblescomic]

What happened to the cats (CMYK)?

They got turned into hot dudes:

From my NSFW comic Funhouse Of Frights, loved the idea of basing a group of four characters off of the CMYK model again XD

[writerofweird]

Karl has a frightful night.

[cocktailsfairytales]

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Lake Cree by Apryl Baker

Come one, come all to the Lake Cree Amusement Park, where you won't find just games, rides, and a funhouse, but a park full of ghostly haunts!

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Ella Grace loves Halloween. It's her favorite holiday. What other holiday celebrates scary rides, haunted houses, haunted hayrides, candy corn, and all other manor of frightful things?

Eli is not so in love with the holiday that celebrates all the things that can hurt you.

But he does love amusement parks.

So, when Jordan invites them all to attend the soft opening of the Lake Cree Amusement Park, he grudgingly gives in to Ella and they all head to the park where they will be locked in for the night.

Only the park is the home of an ancient force and an even deadlier presence, the very land itself bloodsoaked with a dark and violent history.

And all Supernaturals know that on All Hallows Eve, the veil between good and evil, the living and the dead, is at its weakest.

Can they survive long enough to find a way off the island, or will they be the next victims of Lake Cree?

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