The 'Squick' Factor, Tolerance and other Inane Rambles. · 12:41pm Feb 5th, 2014
So recently, on the suggestion of a friend of mine, who is a fellow fan of creepypasta, I read 'Dogscape'
Now, I have seen gore and imagery some humans find disturbing. I have been on the scene of great vehicular crashes with humans crunched into unnatural and terrible positions. I have shot, skinned and eaten animals, I can watch most horror movies quite reasonably and I have worked as a butcher's assistant. So it is hard to make me say, 'EEEEEEWWWWWWW!'
Dogscape did it.
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!
And it did it brilliantly.
This is a story of a human, who finds himself on a planet Earth radically changed. The only apparent creatures are a few remains of the human race living in tribal settlements, a few packs of dogs, and hordes of ticks.
And the Dogscape.
Oh fuck the Dogscape. (Read the story to further get the joke)
It induced me to such a feeling of unease and disgust I wanted to vomit and cry at the same time. This was like if Clive Barker and Stephen King had a sleepover and this was the result of their scary story contest.
In summation, if a guy as hardened as I am to gore and grosser things nearly vomits to it, how would you care to read it?
Also, has to be said; one of the weirdest damned creepypastas ever. In such a way that is even unusual for creepypasta.
Also, as a dog person, it made me even further disturbed.
And it has people building up a mythos for it. I just read one were the Dogscape sends out 'Jackalbeests'; African Wild Dog-like monsters the size of horses, to attack and bring the humans back into the biomass. Especially woman, because the Dogscape apparently hates the idea of humans continuing reproduction.
What's also so fucked up is that nobody knows for sure how this happened. Hell, it could be because The Thing won our Earth.
By the way, here's a story from the Thing's perspective. Because seeing your enemies as evil is all too easy. The truth is more complex.