My take on The Northern Caves

Hello all, it's been a while! For the past two months, I've been immersing myself in spooky media in celebration of the season, and I have many, many thoughts about it. Hopefully this burst of inspiration to write will stick around for a while and I can tell you all about it. This post is very long (At around 2,500 words, it may be the longest I've ever put on this blog), and it gets pretty personal, but I think it's necessary to explain why I liked this particular story so much. Scene-settingI've been sick with a cold for the past week, so I've spent most of my time listening to Davis Morgan on YouTube while crocheting. For those unfamiliar, Davis mainly does readings and analyses of internet horror stories, as well as analyses of horror literature in general. Yesterday, I finished listening to his reading and analysis of The Northern Caves by nostalgebraist, and this weird internet horror novel(?) is now one of my favorite things I've ever read, horror or otherwise. I wanted to put…