![]() ![]() There exist far more polished examples of the form, such as " Candle Cove," which is carefully composed enough for its originator to keep his name on it. "Satellite Images" doesn't interrogate or challenge horror's main chords, nor does it emulate vernacular forms of internet writing in an interesting way. ![]() "Satellite Images" goes on to underline its insinuations, cut off mid-sentence as if the narrator were actually speaking, and end with a gesture towards the hoary IT'S COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE. The woman's introduction is flubbed sentences have seemingly been lost somewhere along the story's copy-and-paste life-cycle, so much so that the reader must go back and fill in pertinent details. The narrator of "Satellite Images," physically disabled and seemingly agoraphobic, can only "feel free" while street-viewing random cities on Google Maps s/he finds herself stalked by a blur-faced woman with red shoes from city to city. a networked effort to deliver dread in as efficient a way as possible." Will Wiles describes the genre as having "an eerie air of having arisen from nowhere. ![]() A kind of new iteration of the urban legend, with the internet as its city, creepypasta generally takes the form of as FOAFlore (ie friend-of-a-friend lore), comments on a forum, or a final, strangled pleading blogpost, posing as authentic testimony rather than fiction. The genre thrives on anonymity and slipshod writing, both of which boost the stories' presumed veracity. A few years ago, I was in a car accident.īesides unnecessarily explaining Google Maps, " Satellite Images" begins by executing exposition with brutality and an utter disregard for the show-don't-tell "rule." But this is creepypasta, an authorless horror story from the bowels of the internet. It lets you use satellite images to look at locations all over the world. It is not a good opening paragraph, as opening paragraphs go:Ī friend of mine showed me how to use Google Maps. Jon Rafman, BR-265, Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil, (2012). Archival pigment print on aluminium. ![]()
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