meanings:

• (x) - fits partially
• ?x? - i think this might fit, but i do't know yet
• [x] - comment

the buried

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

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

• ?(the book "into the drowning deep" by mira grant)?

the corruption

filth, the crawling rot

fears and manifestations in the show: mysophobia (dirt and/or contamination), verminophobia (germs and/or pathogens), bacteriophobia (bacteria, germs), trypophobia (cluster of small holes) - 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 book series "parasite", "symbiont" and "chimera" by mira grant)
• the tv series "the last of us" from 2023

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

• [still looking for stuff]

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

• [still looking for stuff]

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

• [still looking for stuff]

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

• [still looking for stuff]

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 book series "parasite", "symbiont" and "chimera" by mira grant)
• ?the book "nuclear war - a scenario" by annie jacobsen?

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 "sister, maiden, monster" by lucy a. snyder
• the novella "transmuted" by eve harms
• the book "tender is the flesh" by agustina bazterrica
• the movie "the substance" from 2024
• the videogame "the forest"

the hunt

blood

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

• the novella "straight" by chuck tingle

the lonely

forsaken, the one alone

fears and manifestations in the show: autophobia (being alone), 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

• [still looking for stuff]

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 book "my year of rest and relaxation" by ottessa moshfegh

the stranger

i do not know you

fears and manifestations in the show: the uncanny, not knowing, automatonophobia (human-like figures, e.g. mannequins, wax figures, statues, dummies, anomatronics, robots) - 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 short story collection "monstrum" by lottie mills
• (the book "annie bot" by sierra greer)
• ?the book "something wicked this way comes" by ray bradbury?

the vast

the falling titan, the void

fears and manifestations in the show: acrophobia (heights), thalassophobia (ocean, large bodies of water), bathophobia (depth), apeirophobia (infinity, eternity, endlessness), megalophobia (large objects, structures and/or spaces), casadastraphobia (falling into the sky), 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 book "the loneliest girl in the universe" by lauren james)
• the book "the end of everything (astrophysically speaking)" by katie mack
• ?(the book "into the drowning deep" by mira grant)?
• the book "the three-body problem" by cixin liu

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 (spiders), fear of being controlled - webs, web patterns, weaving, marionettes, spiders, addiction, tape recorder

• [still looking for stuff]