#ill have to find a written version but one just autoplayed on youtube while i was biking and it was like

[foulserpent]

ive been on about this before but ive been listening to horror narrations again recently and so im going to be on it again: it literally drives me INSANE how like online horror people are so averse to writing from the proper perspective

like so many stories include what are supposed to be like, excerpts from newspapers, but the writing of whats supposed to be an article is like “they said it had unnaturally long arms, with eyes that felt like the were staring into your very soul in a way that crushed every drop of hope out of you.” or like it will be supposd to be a transcript of someone talking in an interview or conversation, and the person talking will be speaking in purple prose like “i felt my soul slowly being crushed the longer i looked at it... its unnaturally wide smile and needle-like teeth were unlike any creature ive ever seen”. they dont write in the proper tone or in the way people actually talk, and the kicker is it would be a lot SCARIER with the more vague details or fragmented description youd get from actual conversation

or the story will set the stage that the narrator is frantically typing this out as some monster bangs on their door and they open the story with “i dont have much time left. itll get me soon. i wish it could have ended differently but all hope is lost for me. i can only just hope that my death will be quick and that ill be able to write this all in time, but by the way its banging on my door im not sure it will.” and then launches into a detailed prose-heavy story while still expecting you to believe that its being typed in a desperate rush