#marine horror

[alexlikesbooksandtea]

guys, i need you to all give me your maritime horror recs. this has been something i've loved my whole life and it's only just occured to me to search tumblr for this so, give me your recs. i've only experienced a few pieces of media like this but so you get what i'm going for:

into the drowning deep - this is my roman empire, this shit is exactly what i want. what the fuck is out there and in what ways will it fuck us up?

our wives under the sea - i wanted to love this so bad but it just,,,,wasn't it for me? i think it was too literary and not enough horror for me

eeler's choice - i listened to the first ep of this today and i am interested, what is up with those eels

also not quite the same but shout out to the voyage of the demeter section of dracula because that's got the right levels of spookiness and despair and maritime superstition

if you guys have recs for any kind of media i will take them, but especially books or games cause that's what i'm most likely to actually follow through with, but i need more of this content so

[hekateras]

Deepsea mermaid

[mo0nbugs]

Can anyone recommend books or games with a similar vibe to Dredge because I am craving the horrors the deep

[spyofspook]

[orsanedraws]

gremlin

[classichorrorblog]

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

[bradassholemajors]

Unhinged Comments I’ve Found Watching Every Single Rocky Horror Clip I Can Find On YouTube

(… obviously he’s not still young?????)

and my personal favorite:

[mysharona1987]

Not weird people at all.

Ok, but is JD romancing a couch or dolphin?

[traffrogers]

this week on traff getting obsessed with an au that barely exists

[prinz-vassago]

missed drawing guts

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

when you think about it combining thousands of supersoldiers literally incapable of fear with a strictly atheist, rational regime was a colossally stupid decision, and not for the reasons you're thinking of

y'know those cheesy old horror movies where the protagonists are spectacularly stupid? like, they find a spoopy book bound in suspicious leather and go, "haha lets read from this WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG" and twenty minutes later they're being chased by demon minotaurs or something. and the whole time you're screaming "NO YOU FUCKING MORONS WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT WAIT WHY ARE YOU GETTING UNDRESSED NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO HAVE SEX" and then the demon minotaurs kill them while they're having loud passionate sex because god forbid horny teenagers should ever have fun. ok so hear me out, astartes and primarchs in the pre-heresy are the same as the dumbass teenagers, except for the sex-having part (i think they T-pose at each other instead)

think about it. THEY KNOW NO FEAR. they're missing one of the key instincts we possess for recognizing dangerous situations. most people who find a spoopy book bound in suspicious leather are gonna be, y'know, spooped spooked. they won't want anything to do with it. the more anxious/scared will straight up leave. but astartes literally can't get spooked! they might burn the book for being xenos filth or something but beyond that there's nothing to balance out natural curiosity and/or lust for war trophies.

and this combines really badly with the imperium's rationalism! see, even if you don't fear the spoopy book, superstition/religion/fairy tales/etc. still provide a powerful incentive to stay away from it. you're gonna look at it and go, wow, that book looks satanic, messing with it might summon demon minotaurs, i should stay away. but the imperium actively discourages that line of thought! there's no way the spoopy book can do any harm, it's just a spoopy looking book! in fact, you SHOULD read the spoopy book just to demonstrate how not-superstitious you are!

yeah so this is why fulgrim walks into a creepy temple full of ritual snake orgy and thinks, hmm that snazzy sword the snake guys are obsessively fucking around would make a nice trophy. or why it never occurs to magnus that making deals with the fair folk might be dangerous territory.

[jet-teeth]

Aaand last one of the artfight batch, Vansire & Mekintel for Sadseraph!

[tamvmat]

Busying myself with some Dredge themed aberration ideas!

The Man O' War and Tripod fish are pretty weird guys naturally...so it was fun to make their mutated versions. My own ideas 🙏😌 Ink drawings

Blistered Tripod ~ This poor mass of fluid filled boils does nothing more than sit pathetically on the ocean floor. It's tough to tell if it's even alive.

Spined Siltstrider ~ It skitters rapidly through the silt and sludge on the oceans bottom, impaling any sea life it encounters to consume.

Man At Arms ~ Like a living mine, the Man At Arms is equipped with barbed spikes within its air filled membrane. The spikes erupt violently in all directions if the creature is disturbed, sadly spelling the end for the poor beast as its means of flotation is ruptured in the process.

[the-uncanny-dag]

Took me one look at this The Terror poster to know immediately exactly where it's from

To be more specific, this illustration ties to this exact part of the poem:

And through the drifts the snowy clifts

Did send a dismal sheen:

Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken--

The ice was all between.

The ice was here, the ice was there,

The ice was all around:

It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,

Like noises in a swound!

[cinematic-studies]

This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (José Mojica Marins, 1967)

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