Archive - The Unnerving

The Unheard Anguish of the World

How to prioritize your goals, clear your head, and find inner peace at last

Nov 1 •

July 2024

How to Disappear Completely

Or how to quit social media in three easy steps

Jul 21 •

May 2024

Enter the Dollhouse—The Stories of Thomas Ligotti

Puppets and manikins; the horror of unliving objects; the infinite, inhuman cosmos; artificial intelligence; the uncanny valley; Ligotti, Lovecraft, and…

May 22 •

April 2024

A review of the Apple Vision Pro—a totally normal device and not at all a dystopian prelude of horrors to come.

Apr 7 •

March 2024

A Manifesto for Failure

Welcome to The Unnerving - Year Two. Here things will be different.

Mar 9 •

December 2023

November 2023

The Thing in the Bedroom

A young girl is disturbed by her father's strange behavior. He disappears for most of the day, shut up in his room, from which she hears strange…

Nov 24, 2023 •

Concordia Flight 1337

When a family attempts to take a holiday flight, their journey is derailed by a toxic fog, Kafkaesque security checks, and a wormhole that sends them…

Nov 17, 2023 •

And the Smell of the Ground

Buy the next generation of The Locket™ today! It knows you better than you know yourself. It can do everything—if you only give it a chance.

Nov 10, 2023 •

October 2023

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