decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM to CreepyWikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoHenry Darger - Reclusive janitor revealed posthumously to be the author of a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript depicting young children being tortured and massacreden.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkHenry Darger - Reclusive janitor revealed posthumously to be the author of a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript depicting young children being tortured and massacreden.wikipedia.orgdecadentrebel@lemmy.worldM to CreepyWikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squarefrickineh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI mean, this seems more sad than creepy. A lot of it sounds like him processing his childhood trauma, not any desire to torture kids himself.
minus-squareWarlockLawyer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoAnd processing through his Catholic faith and culture. Martyrs and gruesome displays of the torturing of saints.
I mean, this seems more sad than creepy. A lot of it sounds like him processing his childhood trauma, not any desire to torture kids himself.
And processing through his Catholic faith and culture. Martyrs and gruesome displays of the torturing of saints.