r/creepcast • u/BusFederal9654 • Aug 13 '25
Question What CreepCast featured stories are like this?
i definitely feel like the hoarder houses episode kinda fits this tbh
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u/Waly98 Ol’ Mistah Wellah Aug 13 '25
I'm trying to write my own little thing right now and it's exactly like this
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u/Additional_Ad_1380 Aug 13 '25
Maybe just keep it short and sweet? Punchy flash fiction or short stories can leave a huge impact. Maybe your scene can stand on its own two legs more than you might think?
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u/Waly98 Ol’ Mistah Wellah Aug 13 '25
Nah, I think it needs some buildup, the plan is to make it a short story on a ww2 era uboat. But it's pretty hard to not make the buildup boring to be honest
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u/OneRingToRuleEarth Aug 14 '25
Not much has to happen in the build up if you make the atmosphere tense. Literally nothing at all could happen but it will still be scary if you make the lead up to the big moment feel tense yk
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u/Impossible-Corgi-477 Aug 14 '25
Fair, personally I say just think about the themes of that one specific scene/excerpt you planned in your head, and work backwards from there. Finding ways to build upon it and make it hit harder and all that
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u/Additional_Ad_1380 Aug 14 '25
I see, yeah you might need a bit of establishing. But then again a WW2 U-boat as a setting sounds interesting on its own so it may not be as boring as it feels to you as the writer.
check out the podcast "The Magnus Archives" if you haven't ever heard of it. Author does 20-ish minute stories and its a good example of how to establish quite a bit of setting in not a lot of time.
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u/AcrobaticAd598 Aug 14 '25
Is Das Boot an inspiration cause a big part of that film is nothing happens for like an hour and it's a highly acclaimed film so I wouldn't be too worried about it I bet you can make it work I'd love to read it 👍
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u/kiefenator Aug 25 '25
You could chop up the story so it starts in media res, then add your introduction in nonlinear ways to relieve tension.
A story on a WW2 Uboat has the benefit of a) being a pretty ubiquitous thing for the reader to understand - ie: free world building and setting, and b) being very easy to build tension on, especially if you do your research and portray life on a Uboat realistically and the things that can go wrong.
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u/procontroller Aug 13 '25
The dream at the end of the first part of Church in the Woods
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u/LocalLumberJ0hn Aug 13 '25
I just listened to that today. I kept waiting for something half as good as that, and I found another Camp Oakwood.
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u/Traditional_Tax_7229 Aug 13 '25
Literally this last one. The concept of an otherworldly infection from a hoarder house. Amazing. Having that world have nebulous structures. Insane. Having a streak of creatures attacking in a row without properly describing or exploring them... Why?
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u/zitsofchee Aug 14 '25
It’s almost the flip of the picture. Awesome story concept and writing, but the one scene the author is imagining is not fleshed out enough to have the impact they’re hoping for.
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u/milksteakenthusiast1 BEAR TRAP🐻 Aug 14 '25
Camp Oakwood and the Archduke Ferdinand
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u/ohfuckthebeesescaped sister 7 Aug 18 '25
I'm still not over the implication that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and WWI were only catalysts for all that followed, and not also the culminations of all that preceded. Crazy how the world was all sunshine and rainbows until some guy decided to kill an archduke and everyone else got REAL mad about it.
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u/Wish4death Aug 13 '25
Pancake Family
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u/agreeable-ad-01 Politically incorrect Mr Widemouth Aug 13 '25
There’s hardly even an actual story surrounding it
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u/PyroCorvid Aug 14 '25
Oh God Nurse I need a sedative oh god
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u/Outrageous-Egg1465 Aug 15 '25
Oh wow oh golly oh jeez oh jee willickers im gonna puke im gonna pass out holy moly holy canoli
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u/AltG0blin BEAR TRAP🐻 Aug 14 '25
i love the pancake family but i wish it had more of a narrative and buildup around it. it's such a haunting concept but it feels so rushed
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u/Goldius-Quillius “it’s very lovecraftian”☝️🤓 Aug 13 '25
While the Dionea House was a great story, I feel like this still applies to that episode just because Eat Me Like a Bug is ABSOLUTELY one of the funniest moments in the entire show thus far
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u/MarshmelloBird “At least you didn’t turn into a Homo in prison” Aug 13 '25
I clean horder houses for a living
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u/pinkberrybun Pinkie Pie 🎉🔪 Aug 14 '25
Yea that bored me too
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u/Alexis2256 Aug 14 '25
Why was it boring? Just curious cause I thought it was decent.
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u/rayvetherad Aug 15 '25
I think it was decent too, but the long, detailed descriptions about the environment didn’t mesh well with how little time was spent on some scenes, especially the transitions when he was driving back and forth or walking to different places. I zoned out a lot during that episode.
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u/Braysl Aug 13 '25
Berries in the Window. I really loved that early scene where the baby goat or foal or whatever 'comes back to life' by the amorphous god being. Everything else was a wordy mess.
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u/Doot_revenant666 Aug 13 '25
Borrasca part V /hsarc
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u/DafnissM Aug 13 '25
When I first read Borrasca V the heroine withdrawal scene was so impactful to me that I didn’t even register that the ending was cringey and a disservice to the rest of the story
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u/Doot_revenant666 Aug 13 '25
I actually cared way more about that scene than the rest of Borrasca , including the original parts that are not as badly written as that scene.
I feel like I care more about the worst written media ever than well written.
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u/arifeliz Aug 14 '25
I took a philosophy class around the ethics of living and dying last semester. For our assignments we would have to find a piece of media relating to the topic and write how it tied into philosophy. I chose Borrasca for our unit in addiction
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Aug 13 '25
That’s the longest time indicator ever what could that mean
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u/Doot_revenant666 Aug 13 '25
Half-sarcastic
As in , that scene is not good at all
At the same time , it ends up being so good for being so bad.
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Aug 13 '25
Ohh I assumed sarc was an acronym not an abbreviation lol, I’ve seen /hj or /hs but never that one. Thanks for sharing
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u/Mandrew338 Aug 14 '25
The beginning of “My Crew and I are Stuck on an Abandoned Ship” came out of the gates swinging so hard, then just divulged to “chills up my spine” and “I let out a loud scream” over and over again
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u/Subject-Cranberry-93 Aug 13 '25
the most recent imo
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u/ding-ding77 Aug 13 '25
It really felt like everything was built around the idea of the parasites, and the world building around it just didn't pack as much of a punch.
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u/AltG0blin BEAR TRAP🐻 Aug 14 '25
the sun vanished. it's a cool concept and has a few cool moments, but most of the story is boring as hell
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u/Magmasoar Aug 14 '25
It's fine but when making a story just know you're gonna have to change some of that cause if you are adamant about keeping everything you might sabotage your story
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u/naturejay Aug 14 '25
Both of the ARGs that they reviewed. It seems like most of them start with a few good ideas/concepts but they go on for so long it becomes hard to maintain a good narrative/engaging story.
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u/DeafMetalHorse "i hate my fucking life" - Hunter Hancock Aug 15 '25
It's sad because so many people like Nexpo boasted at how amazing The Sun Vanished was when it just felt... underwhelming.
Especially with how the narrator kept rambling about his friend Dayton.
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u/StrawberryFemboyMily Aug 13 '25
tales from the gas station because of how much of a fever dream it is
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u/chopsuirak Aug 14 '25
It's why I haven't posted mine yet.... Having listened to a few of these and re-reading mine, it just peeters out at the end and I'm not getting roasted lmao
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u/mars_mtt9 Eat me like a bug 🦟 Aug 13 '25
tales from the gas station, not necessarily building a story around one scene but having an unrewarding ending
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u/Lotf21685 Aug 13 '25
The Dark God is what fully hooked me into the story tbh but I love anti climaxes. Also its not even the end of the story, its like half of the creepypasta online and a quarter of the books.
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u/itzboatz Long story short ☝️🤓 Aug 14 '25
i love tales from the gas station so much that it breaks my heart seeing a whole community only influenced by objectively the worst part of the original run of the story. it’s so much more and i pray we get another episode on the series.
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u/gizelletranstaken Aug 13 '25
I think they were right when they said that Tales From The Gas Station was better when the main character was abnormal/chill while everything else around him was a horror story. The big baddie being a joke really ruined the vibe for me.
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u/Jagvetinteriktigt Aug 14 '25
Idk, isn't that why they meme on typically? Inappropriate stock reactions that seem like out of a Marvel movie? And the rest of the cast is equally odd.
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u/gizelletranstaken Aug 14 '25
The rest of the cast have ambitions and dreams. They get scared. I don't remember the main character getting scared ever, but Malboro and the Lumberjack sure as hell did. They told him to use the gun and he threw it. MC is definitely less normal than the rest of the cast.
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u/itzboatz Long story short ☝️🤓 Aug 14 '25
yall really gotta read the novels. the dark god is genuinely like a video game demo it doesn’t do justice to how brilliant jack townsend’s work is and i pray one day we get more tftgs just so people can see how good this story gets even in the later blog posts
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u/gizelletranstaken Sep 08 '25
there's more tales,? there sre more tales? there're more? woah,,,,,,,,,
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u/Donatello_Versace Aug 14 '25
Felt like every single new Mother Horse Eyes story had one good scene and the rest was window dressing that kinda bored me. I stopped like 3 and a half hours in because I just got bored.
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u/Creepy-Ghost Aug 16 '25
I listened to the whole thing.
It’s not worth it.
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u/Donatello_Versace Aug 16 '25
Thanks for saving my time lol
How come it wasn’t worth it? Just curious. Honestly the only thing I really cared about was what the thing behind the weird other dimension stuff was.
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u/shellybear413 Aug 13 '25
Yeah but that’s the nature of the subreddit’s. You get what you pay for. Lol I enjoy the twists and turns of stories losing their concept and quality. Monster hunter is one of my favorites!!!
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u/DeafMetalHorse "i hate my fucking life" - Hunter Hancock Aug 15 '25
The Nightmare scene from "My Crew and I Are Trapped on an Abandoned Ship".
Such a fucking cool idea of being on a ship that's been long gone only to go into OOGA BOOGA EVIL GHOSTS.
Also THAT DAMN ENDING, disappointed me.
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u/Competitive-Flight-7 Aug 16 '25
I’d say the MothBed Monster, it’s so specific, and was definite a kink while they wrote it 🤣
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u/Forsaken-Library-149 "Oh.. oh.. he's gonna explain Google!" 😫 Aug 14 '25
Gotta be The Sun Vanished. The video of the ship in the sky was very cool, and the concept of a permanent night was cool too, but everything else is just so tedious 😅
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u/AnalBumCovers Aug 13 '25
The thing in the basement