>>40707060 (OP)Depends on human culture. In general I think this anon is right
>>40707847It's things that are abominable and shouldn't exist, but beyond there they're forces of predation in a culturally relative sense. There was a time when people thought vampires were scary, and they were monsters, but that time has passed because our cultural consciousness has matured beyond finding them frightening. We understand what they represent now, and it's no longer horrifying to us. Disease and mental illness are relatively well understood. Same thing with werewolves. Dragons were considered monsters at one time too, but that came from a period where humanity was really at a risk for things like getting attacked by wild animals just by going about our business. As time has gone on, the monsters people find frightening have gone from looking like animals to people, and now they don't look like anything on earth. We have a pretty solid understanding of how things work here. What's really frightening to contemporary people is shit like cosmic horror, things that are intentionally unknowable and operate by arbitrary rules that often don't have a win state for us. I think that's why shit like analogue horror is really popular now.
