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UHF78: Ultimate Horror Fiction

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Patrick Storck
Mar 07, 2024
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This one came from the same place a lot of my horror stories come from. I learn about something then my brain wonders the worst way that could happen while I try to sleep. In a short window I listened to podcasts that did overviews of synesthesia and “the devil’s tritone” and dissonance in general. I had the nightmare mashed up then somehow from outline to script then to Ryan’s art, it wound up looking pretty much just like the nightmare. Only animation could get it closer, really. I take it as a compliment that someone told me they lost sleep over one of my stories. Sometimes, like this, so did I.

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