The Knifepoint Horror Villain Playoffs, Round 3
Added 2024-05-20 13:00:11 +0000 UTCCast your vote! Looks like the Droditch just barely made it into the Ultimate Villain Showdown (U.V.S.), which comes after the 4th round... and as of now, features no actual human baddies.
We’re getting down to it now…. remember, if you don’t see the villain you’re most pulling for on these lists, chances are they just failed to submit their application and $15 processing fee on time.
Art by V.V. Glass, from the Knifepoint Horror Anthology
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Well, I can fall asleep to his voice as well
Eva-Lotta Romfelt
2024-06-20 19:47:06 +0000 UTCTwo of the best - Karen and the Walking People ! This is so fun
Sammie Davidson
2024-06-04 17:57:32 +0000 UTC"...features no actual human baddies" UMMMM fiona and karen?
elliot
2024-05-30 14:14:21 +0000 UTCOh baby! Throw that weight around Tarpy!
Thorne Russell
2024-05-28 11:17:22 +0000 UTCThe Walking People for sure! They were in the second episode of Knifepoint I ever listened to, so they have a special place in my heart
Luis Castillo Silva
2024-05-24 00:45:50 +0000 UTCThe pyktid from "cellar"!!
Thomas Little
2024-05-23 15:49:27 +0000 UTCKaren made me so uncomfortable when I heard "staircase" the first time. It felt like I was listening to someone describe a nightmare I had that I never told anyone about. A perfectly simple and terrifying premise.
Nick Fane
2024-05-23 05:23:28 +0000 UTCI can give you initials, which is a clue in itself…that’s as far as I’ll go
Lori K.
2024-05-23 01:04:19 +0000 UTCOh, the WORST I absolutely GOTTA know...
Soren Narnia
2024-05-23 01:02:55 +0000 UTCCan’t WAIT for the next round (I have no life)…I am trying to imagine who the contestants will be. So far, all of my picks have been eliminated but that’s alright. No accountin’ for taste. I get the feeling the final group will include my pick for worst of all time. Mwah mwah mwah
Lori K.
2024-05-23 00:59:18 +0000 UTCThat was Mike Harris. Haven't listened to that one in a long time!
Soren Narnia
2024-05-23 00:45:43 +0000 UTCI hope the art from “thrifting” submits a group application
C
2024-05-23 00:20:06 +0000 UTCSporangula was great, who was the narrator?
Eva-Lotta Romfelt
2024-05-22 17:52:39 +0000 UTCVery tough round. You could build the solid foundation for a villainous Cooperstown on this bracket alone.
Bob M.
2024-05-22 15:10:53 +0000 UTCplague is one of my all time favs so gotta go with sporangela
Amy Sloan
2024-05-22 14:13:14 +0000 UTCYeah, but you know Moonkeeper, always changing things. It’s snackshop today and like, espadrilles tomorrow. I can’t be expected to keep track of new words of the day, I have enough problems.
Emily T
2024-05-21 18:51:07 +0000 UTCSame!
Dahn (Ucongold)
2024-05-21 18:23:55 +0000 UTCfirst time ever saying this but i’m team karen
Austin
2024-05-21 18:03:42 +0000 UTCWalking People. They just give the hebegebes.
Hilde Marciniak
2024-05-21 17:11:31 +0000 UTCPs. Voted for Vonna - there is so much ambiguity in Lockbox that I come back to it again and again. It's just stunning, a masterpiece and so many levels of horror.
Karen Coaching For positive health!
2024-05-21 16:36:10 +0000 UTCI'm just so happy as the word 'Droditch' bugged me for ages and I now know HOW IT'S SPELT!
Karen Coaching For positive health!
2024-05-21 16:34:40 +0000 UTCAll the terabytes, half the carbs!
Thomas Little
2024-05-21 16:23:12 +0000 UTCI grew some sporangela just as a seasoning—works well in pasta sauce.
Soren Narnia
2024-05-21 16:20:38 +0000 UTCI also love sporangela, in part because I have grown some. I know it cannot defeat the juggernaut that is Karen, alas. I love your sci-fi pieces, they really have a minimalism to them that pairs so well existential terror, cosmic horror, what have you.
Thomas Little
2024-05-21 16:19:01 +0000 UTCI just love saying sporangela so it gets my vote
M
2024-05-21 16:02:55 +0000 UTCtarp
elliot
2024-05-21 13:35:23 +0000 UTCThis one was HARD! I was gonna vote the Walking People in solidarity for WV, but I loooove Sporangela. Even just the word sounds so good in my brain and it’s an OG goodie!
Monica Sheakley
2024-05-21 12:33:59 +0000 UTCIt’s ’snackshop’. 😉
Frequentj
2024-05-21 03:09:29 +0000 UTCSame! It’s one of my favorites. The word of the day is ‘snackshop’.
Frequentj
2024-05-21 03:08:21 +0000 UTCKaren walking up the staircase got me hooked on your podcast
Eric
2024-05-20 22:13:01 +0000 UTCHad to pick Moonkeeper here. They're all creepy but that story is one I find myself going back to again and again, and is one of my first recommendations to people I convince (buffalo) into listening.
Ariadne
2024-05-20 21:16:31 +0000 UTCI’d have to go with Moonkeeper. He sees me, I’m already dead, because I am never going to know the word of the day.
Emily T
2024-05-20 19:02:23 +0000 UTCI feel like we need an NIT tourney for the villains who didn’t make it out of Round 1.
Ryan Fahey
2024-05-20 19:00:50 +0000 UTCSporangela has always been one of the creepiest and most creative things you’ve ever put into one of your stories in my opinion
Andrew Duffy
2024-05-20 18:31:26 +0000 UTCAnother tough choice, damn! Sporangela, Moonkeeper and Karen... But... The Walking People. It has to be. Legend is my favourite KPH story, mixing classic scary place, strange event retelling with Lovecraftian isolation in the cold.
Brendan
2024-05-20 17:26:22 +0000 UTCKaren will be the most popular choice, if only because it's probably the most well-known tale thanks to the myriad vid adapts on YT but I had to go for the Moonkeeper. Just above Thresholds and Proof, the CREEPIEST episode from KPH. The scene where the protagonist is 'given shelter' by his co-worker, the door is locked and a car w/their headlights off, pure dread. Good thing we didn't have Gretchen Plauser (or Robin Song itself) in this round, as well.
Jamie G Hardy
2024-05-20 16:18:15 +0000 UTCThat sounds like a winner, Jill. Maybe someone we know on this thread will pounce on that. My memory is painfully selective but it’s at your disposal!
Lori K.
2024-05-20 15:31:09 +0000 UTCThank you, Lori. Can I borrow your memory every time Soren releases a new story? Here's an idea. How about a villain who can't remember what they've done so they keep terrifying the same victim over and over in a loop.
Jill E Merrill
2024-05-20 14:59:42 +0000 UTC"Endgame" was pretty next-level horrific, the overnight haunted house with demonic bacchanalia residue is hard to wear out, but "Staircase" it is. That's the one I I've sent people to first anytime I want to introduce them to the podcast, and I'm sure it will continue to be.
SF
2024-05-20 14:39:32 +0000 UTCThey are creepy tall apparitions from days of yore, walking silently down the road in a blizzard, and into the house of a terrified guy who climbs out the window. Then…the window raises as he cowers on the icy roof. Amazing winter evening story
Lori K.
2024-05-20 14:35:59 +0000 UTCPitting The walking people, Moonkeeper, and Karen against each other... What a contest! The peoples champs right here!
Kristoffer Carlsson
2024-05-20 14:32:40 +0000 UTCGot a feeling there will be a human baddie after this vote.
Lee Wilkins
2024-05-20 14:04:37 +0000 UTCI meant to say Karen's socially oblivious, not anxious. Sorry. Wordo. Not an anxious bone in her body.
Jill E Merrill
2024-05-20 13:34:32 +0000 UTCDamn! I’m stuck between the Walking People, who scared the hell outta me when they came inside the house and raised that window…Eeeeeee!! and Karen, who of course creeps the hell out of everybody. Going to listen to both again. Do not want to waste my vote. Edit: not that any vote would be a waste!
Lori K.
2024-05-20 13:32:10 +0000 UTCWell, I know the Walking People absolutely terrified me but I can't remember exactly who they were. So I voted for Karen. I've probably listened to staircase over ten times. Why? Those creepy crawly hands. Reciting all those pet names. Nothing like the oxymoronic socially anxious psychopath. This story's been made into a video. It's a classic. Well done, Karen. Well done.
Jill E Merrill
2024-05-20 13:31:58 +0000 UTCFirst off, how dare you raise the bar that high with such an epic comment. Second, what an epic comment.
Jeffrey Young
2024-05-20 13:27:27 +0000 UTCAs a side note: I'm not trying to disenfranchise amputees, I just think it's hard to be menacing if you can't rub your hands together whilst scheming. How can one be a dangerous villain when one is... mostly armless. By God. I did it.
Jeffrey Young
2024-05-20 13:26:23 +0000 UTCKare for sure. I think all of us know a creepy weirdo that everyone just discounts as being harmless. And yet this is a pretty common serial killer trope in real life.
Sara Fleming
2024-05-20 13:24:29 +0000 UTCUnfathomable Harvester Worms in their darting, silent spacecraft? What could be more sinister than that?
Andrew Doss
2024-05-20 13:19:15 +0000 UTC"Spor-AAHN-juh-la"!
Andrew Doss
2024-05-20 13:17:05 +0000 UTCI suppose the world-ending sporangela ought to win, but I'd rather face that than Vonna Minter. I don't want someone that unhinged yet determined coming after me.
James McClenathen
2024-05-20 13:16:59 +0000 UTCIf The Walking People have a million fans, then I'm one of them. If The Walking People have one fan, then I'm THAT ONE. If The Walking People have no fans, that means I'm wandering the snowy hills and roads of Grenza.
RetroBot
2024-05-20 13:16:00 +0000 UTCIt was definitely a tough round, Legend is one of my favourites but Karen just gives me the chills.
Nicole Michele
2024-05-20 13:15:58 +0000 UTCAlways Karen.
Albin Glasell
2024-05-20 13:13:32 +0000 UTCI mean, she is the thing from the hallway come to get you
Elliot Lem
2024-05-20 13:13:11 +0000 UTCHoly moly this is a TOUGH one
Doug Reed
2024-05-20 13:12:45 +0000 UTCSurprised sporangela isn't doing better considering it can grow literally anywhere and has those harvester worms as henchmen. I'm rooting for the walking people, in spite of the knowledge that at least one of the crew is a dadgum bilateral amputee AT BEST
Jeffrey Young
2024-05-20 13:09:22 +0000 UTCOh man. Moonkeeper; Walking People and Karen? This is too difficult to choose.
Elliot Lem
2024-05-20 13:03:59 +0000 UTCIt's gotta be creepy Karen for the win.
Nicole Michele
2024-05-20 13:03:27 +0000 UTCTough one! Moonkeeper is iconic but the walking people edge it out I think. I found them scarier!
James Moore
2024-05-20 13:03:21 +0000 UTC
