Echo Bazaar/Nightmare Fuel

Let's just say that although Fallen London looks lighthearted and cheery on the surface, there is some seriously messed up stuff in it you look closely enough, especially later on. Though, really, this should hardly surprise you -- Echo Bazaar is, after all, a Cosmic Horror Story... -


 * Even though the Recurring Dreams storylines increase your character's Nightmares attribute, they aren't actually that bad... Except for the ones that unlock at Nightmares 6, where.
 * Polythreme. So far it's only appeared in the sidebar text, but it's terrifying. The city is enchanted with a magic that makes inanimate objects alive. This doesn't sound so bad until you realize the implications -- as the sidebar gleefully points out, this includes things like candles.
 * Best illustrated by a card you can get if you play as a :
 * Best illustrated by a card you can get if you play as a :

""Get me out of here. I don't belong here. I'm only here because they think I'm possessed. Why am I here? I don't know how my family will eat now. I'm not possessed, I'm not possessed, I'm not possessed. I'm only here because I chased a cat! Where am I? For God's sake let me out. You there! I'm only in here because I organised a strike. Give me a mirror! Give me a mirror!""
 * The way to Polythreme is now open. From the hints dropped about it, one would expect a nightmarish hellscape, but it is actually...surprisingly upbeat. It comes off as more quirky and bizarre than legitimately terrifying. (Even the option to write a travelogue condemning it as a horrible place actually comes off as comical, because the only "horrors" you end up writing about are the milder ones.)
 * It even gives your character nightmares just from walking around and hearing the screams!

"It must be, in part at least, frozen water: when it melts, it refreezes as black ice. Tiny, desperate fish and insects can be seen frozen in the ice, no larger than a fingernail, eyes distorted with fear."
 * In the "Light Fingers" Ambition,
 * The very concept of "snow" in an underground cavern.


 * The Cantigaster.
 * Also, the poison it excretes is one of the few ways to permanently kill someone in the Neath. Make of that what you will.
 * "Welcome, delicious friend." It's charming yet so very frightening.