fridge horror

Noun

fridge horror (uncountable)

1. (neologism, slang) A seemingly innocuous detail in a story, which, upon further contemplation, carries disturbing undertones.
   • > How would you like to live forever, cut into little pieces? Seem like if we were immortal that or something equivalent would be the common fate. There is the Greek myth of someone who was granted the boon of immortality and just kept getting older and older.
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     Different types of immortality have...2011 October 21, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor), “Arithmetic”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 24 Aug 2022
   • It's possible that his expedition, unknowingly, was traversing the southernmost portion of the globe Oz and its surrounding lands and seas occupy... now THERE'S a crossover fanfic of body horror AND fridge horror (pun intended, don't look at me like that, you'd do it too) waiting to be written.2015 June 5, David DeLaney, “HPL upside down in antarctica in At the Mts of Madness?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 24 Aug 2022