[blewin]

Which book in SE's Malazan series contains the eeriest scene?

which leads to that book being the eeriest out of all.

the eeriest scene to me was when that Senger lad came back to life in MT. Didn't get a nightmare, but had chills down my back when I went to bed!

[Dancer+]

if i had to vote off the top of my head i would conclude either capustan and the tenescowri moving onwards devouring all in its path or the scenes you've just described. Its hard to say whether either scene was eerie to me however, its one word i've not felt so far as such.

[Tif the Barber Boy]

I vote for Midnight Tides for 3 scenes which raised my hackles: [spoilers follow]

The first was when Trull is fighting through the snowstorm. Somehow SE really conveys the sense of reality slipping away, the entire world just becoming Trull and the cold and the shapes materializing out of the snow to attack him again and again and again... that scene wasn't frightening, but it was eerie and powerful and uncanny.

The second was Sengar's return to life... the horror was compounded with the previous description of the coins being melted on to the body...

And the third scene would be the battle where the whirlwinds created by the Edur annihilate the armies of Lether outside the capital. The savage power being unleashed and the sheer helplessness of the Letheris was frightening indeed.

[Called-by-the-Voices]

Memorise of ice- the siege of Capustan, horrible. And Y'Ghatan in theBH, although that was more tragic then eerie.

[Tiger_sword]

[Spoiler]
I went for HoC for the scene with the mountain of bones. Eerie stuff. I think it was also the fact that none of the characters knew anything about what was going on. It was like they were realising how insignificant they really were (with the exception of Karsa of coarse)

[blewin]

Bonehunters is eerie?? um...

where's that mountain of bones scene, Tiger? I can't recall.

[Tiger_sword]

Do you remember when Karsa et al are climing down the mountain and they have to walk down stairs of bones then they realise that there are bones everywhere (T'lan Imass) which [it is believed] Icarrium was the cause of

[letheriisteele]

toc getting crushed and healing again and again in the insane matrons arms. raw deal.

[Abyss]

For sheer 'eerie' as in weird/creepy, i have to go with RG,

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when Errant stabs FW, so she yanks out his eye... with Brys' severed finger!... AND THEN EATS IT. And then things get really fucknuts.

A close second is MT

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when Udinaas encounters Menandore for the first time... first there's the dead guy dragging him... and then there's the choking... and then the sex... oh yeah, that was weird...

As a third, it skirts the edge of eerie, but in DoD...

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Withal basically giving Mommy Dark crap... "Mother Dark you bitch, hasn't Sandalath suffered enough?" and she answers "Yes.". Yes, that's right Withal, the creator of the universe just heard you call her a bitch...

[Crow Clan Baby]

The Deadhouse Gates crucifixion - "there was no shortage of spikes". Took my breath away, I just couldn't believe what I was reading.

[HungLikePung]

Memories of Ice. When the building is bulging with blood and bile.
But also I'm only halfway through MT so I've probably yet to encounter some more goodness.

[worry]

 Tif the Barber Boy, on 21 January 2007 - 01:01 PM, said:

I vote for Midnight Tides for 3 scenes which raised my hackles: [spoilers follow]

The first was when Trull is fighting through the snowstorm. Somehow SE really conveys the sense of reality slipping away, the entire world just becoming Trull and the cold and the shapes materializing out of the snow to attack him again and again and again... that scene wasn't frightening, but it was eerie and powerful and uncanny.

The second was Sengar's return to life... the horror was compounded with the previous description of the coins being melted on to the body...

And the third scene would be the battle where the whirlwinds created by the Edur annihilate the armies of Lether outside the capital. The savage power being unleashed and the sheer helplessness of the Letheris was frightening indeed.

When the Sengar bros. meet Serenity in MT:

'I am Forkrul Assail. I am named Serenity.'
'You are a demon, then?'
The head cocked. 'I am?'
'This is not your world.'
'It isn't?'

[Traveller]

Eeriest?

Lots, probably, but first to spring to mind is from TTH when Nimander and co realise that the scarecrows in fields around them are corpses hanging there... with black fluid running out of their faces onto the ground.

[Ceda Cicero]

 First Tiger, on 31 December 2010 - 10:48 PM, said:

Eeriest?

Lots, probably, but first to spring to mind is from TTH when Nimander and co realise that the scarecrows in fields around them are corpses hanging there... with black fluid running out of their faces onto the ground.

Yeah the scarecrows in TtH were super eerie.

I tend to think of eerie as goosebumps subtle sense of impending doom kind of scary as opposed to downright gratuitous graphic leaves me feeling disturbed and drained scary. A lot of stuff that makes my skin crawl, like the Tenescowri and many events on the Chain of Dogs, are terrifying, but if we're going for the former category, I actually have to say I thought ICE did a fantastic job with the setting in Night of Knives. There were very few openly jarring or disturbing scenes, but the way the fog covered the island and we kept hearing Hounds and buildings and streets were shifting in and out of reality... spooky. Spooky as hell.

[ShadowRaven]

I have to go with the tenescowri scenes in MoI. The atmosphere is especially creepy when Itkovian and co. arrive at Jelarkan's palace and find Anaster and his cronies feasting on the Capustan court, and when the women of the dead seed are first shown properly. I also agree with Ciceronian, ICE did a very good job with the creepy atmosphere for the whole Shadow Moon thing in NoK.

[Blueiron]

I thought the Vathar Crossing in DG was the creepiest. Those butterflies... I barely repress a shudder every time I think of them. It just has the feeling of one slow-motion disaster after another, and the contrast between all the fighting and these serene butterflies - which themselves are drowning in such numbers that it slows Stormy's boat, its all just so unsettling.

I think a close second goes to the scene where Icarium and Mappo find the crucified dragon in the Nah'ruk skykeep. The surreal setting, paired with the revelation that someone has been torturing dragons for Hood's sake, just gave my this sinister feelingthat someone seriously evil and seriously ingenious was at work.

EDIT: damn I forgot about those scarecrows.

This post has been edited by Blueiron: 10 January 2011 - 05:34 AM

[MWKarsa]

There are been plenty of eerie scenes in this series but the one that has seared a horrible memory into my brain was:

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Hetan's treament in DoD after Tool's death. The hobbling was terrible and then the public and humilating rapes in front of a cheering and jeering crowd that was once the tribe she had helped lead was absolutely brutal to read. When she "lifts up" to begin the first rape is just a searingly crushing and brutal scene to read and imagine- in some ways I wish I had never read it. After all that happens to her to imagine her lying down on the ground all alone and dying after all that had happened is probably one of the most terrible and powerful images I've ever imagined while reading a book. Utterly heartbreaking.

This post has been edited by MWKarsa: 10 January 2011 - 05:55 AM

[Use Of Weapons]

While Hetan's scenes are gruelling, I would hardly describe them as eerie. Eerie, to me, is 'looking over your shoulder hoping not to see the thing you just read about happening RIGHT BEHIND YOU NOW!!'

[Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast]

Eerie
adj. ee·ri·er, ee·ri·est
1.
a. Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.
b. Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious.
2. Scots Frightened or intimidated by superstition.

Indeed most of those scenes probably couldn't be described as eerie, though I do see where you're coming from. For me, I would have to agree that the eeriest scene, or scenes, are definitely the ones with the scarecrows from TTH.

This post has been edited by Green Pig: 10 January 2011 - 12:13 PM

[Gothos]

Hm. I can't really thing of exactly 'eerie' feelings, but I did shiver in Deadhouse Gates when

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1. The scale of the Jade Finger
2. When they travelled through the Azath and found out each of the little tiles were actually continents... and how the room seemed endless.

Not to sound Sanderson-fanboyish, but there's just about nothing that would give me the feeling I get with

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the mist-figures in The Well of Ascension. I mean... the allomantic pulse is there, but there's NOTHING IN THE... oh SHIT! SHIT SHIT SHIT!
Please note that I haven't finished that book yet so maybe it gets less scary once/if it is explained, but right now, I had trouble sleeping.

I guess the scarecrows in TTH might fit though.