Psychological Horror in Call of Cthulhu

We’re back and we’re doubting ourselves. Well, that’s assuming we have any selves to doubt. Once you start plumbing the dark recesses of psychological horror, you soon realise that you can’t take anything for granted. Objective reality is a joke and identity is just a lie we tell ourselves. If we’re not careful, we’ll narrate ourselves out of existence. Main Topic: Psychological Horror in Call of Cthulhu Once again, we’re examining a subgenre of horror, trying to pick out the main tropes and work out how they might influence our games of Call of Cthulhu. In previous episodes, we’ve turned our attention to ghost stories, body horror, survival horror, cosmic horror and Gothic horror. Now it’s the turn of psychological horror to lie on the analyst’s couch and tell us its darkest secrets. Links Things we mention in this episode include: * The Appeal of Horror * Survival horror * Dead of Night * Martin (1977) * Let the Right One In (2008) * The Shining (1980) * The Shining by Stephen King * Lake of the Dead by Andre Bjerke * Lake of the Dead (1958) * Vertigo (1958) * The Usual Suspects (1995) * The Sixth Sense (1999) * Joker (2019) * I’m Thinking About Ending Things by Iain Reid * I’m Thinking About Ending Things (2020) * Before I Go to Sleep (2014) * Split (2016) * Dissociative I...