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What are some of your favorit horror words?
Published on 20 August 2009 - 23:06:22
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I'm actually running a dark heresy campaign, but the foul horrors of chaos are sometimes quite lovecraftian. So what words are some of your favorite to describe the horrors from beyond?

And maybe... what do they mean?

I kinda like Lothesome as a descriptor but I'm trying to think of a way to describe how wrong the chaos tainted language might sound. And how they might experience their brain boiling away if they try to understand it.

For the emperor!

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Reply #1 | Published on 20 August 2009 - 21:34:25
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You should read Shoggoth's Old Peculiar, a short story by Neil Gaiman. There's a whole discussion of HP Lovecraft's literary style, it reminded me of your post

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Reply #2 | Published on 23 August 2009 - 08:41:33

well you could go the route of the lovecraft quote i have in my signature. dont describe much of anything. leave them in suspense.

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Reply #3 | Published on 05 February 2010 - 18:32:22

Hmm, I would have to say eldritch or noisome. Non-Euclidean is a good one too, especially for the 40K Demons.

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Reply #4 | Published on 06 February 2010 - 07:57:14
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People I know are quite adversive to the words "Moist" and "Taint". 

Reply #5 | Published on 17 April 2010 - 11:40:01
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this thread is ghastly, macabre and shockingly repellent .

Reply #6 | Published on 11 July 2010 - 23:17:57

"Flopped" sounds quite yucky and unsettling IMO.

"Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true…written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us…vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called…re-membered…re-cognized…as that which is already inside us."   Peter Solomon, The Lost Symbol

Reply #7 | Published on 09 September 2010 - 12:02:53

I always liked how environments were "basalt" and "cyclopean".  Feels tall and unsettling.

Gibbering.

Squamous.

Sklitch.

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Reply #8 | Published on 11 September 2010 - 12:23:11
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I'd go for the obligatory 'unfathomable' and 'ululation' :D

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Reply #9 | Published on 07 February 2011 - 10:18:49
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 What about 'silence'?

It is always there just before havoc is unleashed!...

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Reply #10 | Published on 05 March 2012 - 21:31:56
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 How about 'blood curdling'?  I'm not sure what curdling is exactly, but I know for a fact I don't want my blood to start doing it.

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Reply #11 | Published on 06 March 2012 - 17:06:56

ungulating gooey proboscis comes to mind

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Reply #12 | Published on 21 May 2012 - 23:06:22
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 Chittering :D

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