never look at a movie the same way again!

[intertribal]

If you feel like reading something utterly creeptastic, may I suggest "each thing I show you is a piece of my death" by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer?  It's in several anthologies, including Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year Vol. 2 and Clockwork Phoenix Vol. 2 - the latter of which has graciously shared it in pdf form online.  This is one of the few pieces of horror fiction I've read that has actually caused a physical stress reaction in me.  Very much along the same lines as Kairo (Pulse) - like Jonathan McCalmont pointed out in SF Signal, this is essentially the best kind of J-Horror in fiction form.  Which of course sends me screaming for the hills. 

I really dig this whole docu-fiction thing that Gemma Files does.  

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I thought it was totally awesome as well, and it genuinely SCARED me, which is rare for me, for fiction. I sent it to my sister and brother-in-law, who run a media company, because they could totally be the protags in the story.

Gemma Files's fiction is great. Do you know she has a livejournal? ()

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean! There were several lines - the first mention of suicide and the thing about the mask slipping off and an eyeball being visible - that genuinely made me feel like, a sinking pit in my stomach.

Uh oh, I hope they couldn't ACTUALLY be the protags in this story. When the story mentioned that Background Man had been spotted in House (which I watch a lot of), I was like, ohhhhh shit.

I do now - I added her as a friend!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

not actually-actually--but they're always putting together stuff and editing stuff and doing lots of quick cuts and things... so in that sense, I could imagine it only too well (which added to the creepiness)