the buried

the centre, choke, too close i cannot breathe, forever deep below creation

fears and manifestations in the show: claustrophobia, being trapped, suffocating, drowning, crushing - deep water, debt/financial issues, dirt/earth, tight spaces, caves, coffins, graves

the corruption

filth, the crawling rot

fears and manifestations in the show: mysophobia, verminophobia, bacteriophobia, trypophobia - mould, bugs, rot, decay, infection, unhealthy love, companionship, collective consciousness, loss of self/individuality

• the book "brainwyrms" by alison rumfitt
• the book "what moves the dead" by t. kingfisher

the dark

the forever blind

fears and manifestations in the show: scotophobia (darkness), what lies within the dark, the unknown - dark water, blindness, coldness, a creature within the dark

the desolation

the lightless flame, the torturing flame, the devastation, the blackened earth, the ravening burn

fears and manifestations in the show: burning, pain, loss, destruction - flame, wax, heat, burns, destruction of potential

the end

death, terminus, the coming end that waits for all and cannot be ignored

fears and manifestations in the show: death - bones, the dead, dreams, game pieces

the eye

beholding, the ceaseless watcher, it knows you

fears and manifestations in the show: scopophobia (being watched), ommetaphobie (eyes), having secrets revealed, horrible knowledge, being exposed, being judged - eyes, books, libraries, security cameras, a figure that keeps constant watch

the extinction

the terrible change, the future without us, the world is always ending

fears and manifestations in the show: catastrophic change, extinction of humanity especially by humanity's own doing, replacement as the dominant species - doomsday events, man-made catastrophes (e.g. climate change, atomic bombs), codes of strings and numbers, man-made objects, human technology, destruction of nature, destruction of natural order, destruction of human skin and tissue

the flesh

viscera

fears and manifestations in the show: body horror, dysmorphia, being killed for meat, being eaten, being nothing more than meat - meat, corpses, blood, bones, butchers, meat-related industry, cannibalism

• the book "stister, maiden, monster" by lucy a. snyder
• the novella "transmuted" by eve harms
• the book "tender is the flesh" by agustina bazterrica

the hunt

blood

fears and manifestations in the show: being chased, being prey - monsters, predators, animal instinct, animalistic traits

the lonely

forsaken, the one alone

fears and manifestations in the show: autophobia, abandonment - fog, silence, travel, crowds, things that seem human but don't have any personality to them

• the book "the loneliest girl in the universe" by lauren james

the slaughter

war

fears and manifestations in the show: unpredictable violence, war - war imagery, weapons, music, drums, bagpipes

the spiral

the twisting deceit, it is lies, it is not what it seems

fears and manifestations in the show: madness, gaslighting, your mind is lying to you, false friendships - fractals, patterns, spirals, insomnia, hallucinations, mazes, doors

• the book "bunny" by mona awad
• the book "mothtown" by caroline hardaker
• the book "supplication" by nour abi-nakhoul

the stranger

i do not know you

fears and manifestations in the show: the uncanny, not knowing, automatonophobia - mannequins, dolls, wax figures, taxidermy, skin, theatre, performances, masks, calliope music, clowns, circuses

• the manga "hikari ga shinda natsu" ("the summer hikaru died") by mokumokuren

the vast

the falling titan, the void

fears and manifestations in the show: acrophobia, thalassophobia, bathophobia, apeirophobia, megalophobia, casadastraphobia, insignificance - void, skies, falling, outer space, open spaces, deep water, giant creatures, lovecraftian horrors

• the videogame "subnautica"
• the book series "sleeping giants", "waking gods" and "only human" by sylvain neuvel
• the book series "blindsight" and "echopraxia" by peter watts

the web

the spider, the great spider, the mother of puppets, the mother, the spinner of schemes, the story spinner, the hidden machination

fears and manifestations in the show: arachnophobia, fear of being controlled - webs, web patterns, weaving, marionettes, spiders, addiction, tape recorder