SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation is a collaborative speculative fiction writing project that launched in 2008, and is based primarily if not entirely within the SCP Wiki, a wiki-based website that is styled as the in-universe database of the titular fictional organization. The Special Containment Procedures Foundation is a secret organization that is responsible for capturing, containing, and studying various paranormal, supernatural, and other mysterious phenomena (known as "anomalies" or "SCPs"), while also keeping their existence hidden from the rest of society.
The collaborative writing project includes elements of many genres such as horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy, and its literary works have received praise and recognition for its originality, the ability to convey horror through a quasi-scientific and academic writing style, and their high standards of quality. Most of these works consist of both "SCP files", the site's primary feature consisting of mock confidential scientific reports with documentation of various SCPs, their associated containment procedures, and relevant interviews and logs—there are also "Foundation Tales", short stories featuring various characters and settings in the SCP universe. The project does not strictly adhere to a singular canon across all entries, leaving writers free to construct narratives and timelines as they see fit.
Description
The SCP stories have been compared to the writings of American author H. P. Lovecraft: their casefiles generally lack action sequences and are written in a pseudo-academic tone, thus highlighting the tensions between their detached scientific tone and the unsettling, horrific nature of the stories being told—the wide variety of concepts and writings combined with the inclusion of detail and "tongue-in-cheek style" also lends itself to exhibit many different styles of horror.
Many of the SCP entries take cues from the aesthetics and presentation of the broader Cthulhu Mythos, among numerous other influences and inspirations, and its influence on NetHack consists primarily of various creatures being adapted partially or wholesale in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack.
Monsters
External links
- SCP Foundation wiki on WikiDot
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