Horror Stories: A Maddening Lack Of Imagination. By Adam Smith on September 27th, 2013 at 9:00 pm. Looking through the recent releases on Steam, a casual observer might believe that there’s a horror game renaissance underway. In the last few weeks, several games have appeared, with titles like Paranormal and The Orphanage. I’ve installed a few of them, heard them go bump in the night, and then moved on. Despite some quality releases, horror is in a rut. Earlier today, I had a peculiar reaction to the footage of The Evil Within that oozed through the clogged pipes of the interweb from the Eurogamer Expo and directly onto my screen. Oh, that’s the other thing. In games, people with mental illnesses are often monsters or victims, sometimes both, and they are intended to inspire feelings of disgust, fear and repulsion.
“Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. A man enters a creepy institution and everything about the place tells us that something is wrong.
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