forum USA Gothic (help me please)

Started June 09, 2019 by @hollow-boned

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i mean my story revolves around a forest that is more of an entity itself with several entities on various levels of evil living in it

Base it in a cornfield it will be so much scarier
But if you are doing it in the forest…
Forests move, that’s fine.
Mounds of dirt with moss? Those are graves hun.
Avoid bones for reasons listed above.
What sounds like many coyotes is really just one or two.

excellent content, thank you
it absolutely has to be a forest because the point of the story isn't the setting itself, it's the main characters (also they end up having to run away to said forest)
also the forest itself isn't supposed to be Scary and Evil, it's just true neutral and some things in it are terrifying to us simply bc they're much older than us and operate on a different level

(also can i pm you some ideas that i wrote down)

Oh, trust me, the cornfields are something else. People wander in thinking "oh, this will be easy to navigate!" People that arrogant never come back out. And with how hypnotizing the patterns are, who can blame them? Scientists debate if the people who don't come out waste away in there, too mesmerized to cry for help, or if something far more….sinister….is at play.

Oh! And don't mind the werewolf, he's generally quite friendly!
And remember not to walk into faery circles, or the fae own you.

Never go into one alone

Maybe that's what's in the cornfields…..

Yeah, never go into fae circles. Everything else is really friendly though - Hey, I’m a witch!

Be careful when walking in the woods at night. You will see things you don't want to, and not see things you should know about.

there are regularly loud banging noises in suburban neighborhoods. They could be anything from guns, fireworks, or…something else.

Oh, indeed. Every small town has that one crazed man with a cannon.

no town is complete without it. :). Also, those random lights that turn on? The weird scratching noises you hear? I mean, you can look out the window, but you won't see anything. don't go outside though

I would suggest locking your windows, especially if you live in an area where Satan's ducks are common. They can be quite…aggressive.

Same with cicadas. Don't want one of those nasty buggers in your room, now do you?

Cicadas scream a lot. I suggest not wondering why.

don't peer down holes in tree trunks or under rocks, please. unless you want something following you home.

i just googled them and ewww fuck those r ugly

If you make it home at all, that is.

I live in a pretty small townish- rural area. Really deserty/farm-y and very dry and hot. There's a lot of side roads, alleys, strange dark nooks. To me, it's like perfect for creepy things to go down. One of my fav english teachers must agree- he wrote a creepy short story about our town and read it to the school. So like on pretty much every corner in the main part of town, there's like these rusty yellow metal boxes. They're like big enough for a small kid to crouch down in with the lid closed, but the lids have locks, so no one has every opened one. They aren't electrical boxes, or anything… they're just there. What's creepy is that people who've lived here for years haven't noticed them until someone pointed them out. Heck, I've lived here quite some time and I didn't notice them until my English teacher wrote the short story about them. I keep noticing more and more. It's like they just appear. Idk. I guess that's it, there is no set urban legend that "everybody knows". Just weird to me. Strange yellow boxes just lingering…

i just googled them and ewww fuck those r ugly

Indeed! They leave their empty skin shells on trees. Along with their souls.

true. you keep looking back and the same insect wing is still on the sidewalk every time…

I live in a pretty small townish- rural area. Really deserty/farm-y and very dry and hot. There's a lot of side roads, alleys, strange dark nooks. To me, it's like perfect for creepy things to go down. One of my fav english teachers must agree- he wrote a creepy short story about our town and read it to the school. So like on pretty much every corner in the main part of town, there's like these rusty yellow metal boxes. They're like big enough for a small kid to crouch down in with the lid closed, but the lids have locks, so no one has every opened one. They aren't electrical boxes, or anything… they're just there. What's creepy is that people who've lived here for years haven't noticed them until someone pointed them out. Heck, I've lived here quite some time and I didn't notice them until my English teacher wrote the short story about them. I keep noticing more and more. It's like they just appear. Idk. I guess that's it, there is no set urban legend that "everybody knows". Just weird to me. Strange yellow boxes just lingering…

this is terrifying i love it

I live in a pretty small townish- rural area. Really deserty/farm-y and very dry and hot. There's a lot of side roads, alleys, strange dark nooks. To me, it's like perfect for creepy things to go down. One of my fav english teachers must agree- he wrote a creepy short story about our town and read it to the school. So like on pretty much every corner in the main part of town, there's like these rusty yellow metal boxes. They're like big enough for a small kid to crouch down in with the lid closed, but the lids have locks, so no one has every opened one. They aren't electrical boxes, or anything… they're just there. What's creepy is that people who've lived here for years haven't noticed them until someone pointed them out. Heck, I've lived here quite some time and I didn't notice them until my English teacher wrote the short story about them. I keep noticing more and more. It's like they just appear. Idk. I guess that's it, there is no set urban legend that "everybody knows". Just weird to me. Strange yellow boxes just lingering…

this is terrifying i love it

It's not fiction tho

this is terrifying i love it

It's not fiction tho

i know thats what makes it incredible