What Do You Think Are The Most Nightmarish Places and Characters in all of Fiction ?

[CYRUS]

Fictional places that you'd never want to go to it theses places were real and fictional characters that you would dread encountering if they were real people.

And what makes both so dreadful and nightmarish?

 

[GNTLGNT]

...anything by Lovecraft, he was a maestro of menacing atmosphere...

 

[Tery]

(Fixed the title for you)

 

[CYRUS]

...anything by Lovecraft, he was a maestro of menacing atmosphere...

The sunken city R'lyeh where Cthulhu sleeps. Imagine being out on the ocean and having that nightmarish city rise the depths in front of you and worse, seeing giant figure of awakened Cthulhu staring down at you. Find that The city alone is bad enough but being the subject of Cthulhu's regard. Game over. More frighten still is the fact that in Lovecraft's universe there other things that are as bad if not worse then Cthulhu.

 

[Zone D Dad]

The Sunlight Home from The Talisman.

 

[AchtungBaby]

The Marsten House.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Some would consider ‘Hot Topics’ in the SKMB, but I kinda like it there. It has a warm and fuzzy feel.

To me it would be Malebolge (The 8th Circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno). No Ka in that wheel. Heights are bad enough for me let alone having to deal with demons guarding the place.

 

[Doc Creed]

Great choices. From the Stephen king universe, I have two:

The swamp that separates the pet "sematary" from the Micmac burial grounds. (Pet Sematary)

The underground lair that Ralph Roberts finds under Derry, full of macabre souvenirs. (Insomnia)

Both of these scenes made my skin crawl.

 

[Zone D Dad]

The Marsten House.

Oh yeah. Ditto the basement of Eva Miller's boarding house.

 

[RichardX]

Dracula's castle. Lots going on there - the dying out of the aristocracy, the "sisters" etc. Combining themes of death and sex. Pretty weird and menacing even today. I think almost every horror story since owes something to Stoker's Dracula.

 

[CYRUS]

Shadar Logoth the cursed city in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series.

 

[Zone D Dad]

Continuing on the SK theme - I guess one of the obvious choices is room 1408.

 

[danie]

Jessie Burlingame's bedroom or back seat of her car. Anywhere that Space Cowboy might be...
(~Gerald's Game)

 

[mjs9153]

Canavan's Backyard,much like SK's grass forest in his short story..Crouch End,just a rundown section of London,streets that dead end and never go anywhere..also The Dead Valley,by Ralph Adams Cram,a frightening bit by an old author..story, “The Dead Valley,” which H. P. Lovecraft later singled out for achieving “a memorably potent degree of vague regional horror through subtleties of atmosphere and description.”

 

[CYRUS]

The Spaceship in The Tommy Knockers .

 

[CYRUS]

The Eye of Terror in the Warhammer 40K universe.

 

[kingricefan]

Dracula's castle. Lots going on there - the dying out of the aristocracy, the "sisters" etc. Combining themes of death and sex. Pretty weird and menacing even today. I think almost every horror story since owes something to Stoker's Dracula.

So, it's the kar-trash-ian's house then?

 

[kingricefan]

Hill House. Ayuh.

 

[kingricefan]

The house from The Exorcist. You know I'm right......

 

[kingricefan]

Wouldn't wanna meet Rhea Of The Coos (that b*tch!).