How Reddit published the most disturbing horror story ever

Equal parts flash fiction, conspiracy theory and trolling, _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 was an anonymous masterpiece of viral Lovecraftian storytelling

I’m usually a little sceptical of content warnings, but I think today’s post is worth a quick heads-up: there’s passing but substantial mention of both the Holocaust and violence against children in the next 3,000 words.

In retrospect, the fact that the first section of what would become _MOTHER9HORSE9EYES was posted as a comment on r/mildlyinteresting –…