THE SHARED ANATOMY
Memory, names, silence, testimony, return, place, forgetting, and the body connect every story.
ALL WORKCONTACT ↗Independent Creative Exploration// DARK MATTER GRID / CASE STUDY 06
EDITORIAL / EXPERIENCE / MOTION
LOSING THE SELF
A horror anthology identity about memory, names, testimony, and the terror of being undone before you die.READ THE STORY ↓
DISCIPLINEEDITORIAL / EXPERIENCE / MOTION
ROLESTRATEGY + EXPERIENCE DESIGN
PROJECT TYPEORIGINAL ANTHOLOGY WORLD
PATHSTRATEGY → SYSTEM → EXPERIENCE
01
THE CHALLENGE
Start with the tension.
Five novels needed to feel like one collection without collapsing into generic darkness, gore, or one repeated plot. The shared fear had to become legible before the stories were explained - and each book still needed its own anatomy.
02 / THE ORGANIZING IDEA
“Treat identity like an archive under pressure: memory can fail, names can disappear, testimony can contradict itself, and a person can return incorrectly.”
03
THE DESIGN LOGIC
How the system works.
ERASURE BEFORE DEATH
The collection’s horror comes from being undone - not simply from being killed.
FIVE DISTINCT FAILURES
Each novel breaks the self through a different mechanism: imitation, repetition, silence, faith, or memory.
THE ARCHIVE AS INTERFACE
Search states, damaged records, and identity errors turn navigation into part of the unease.
04
THE IDENTITY
The idea becomes visible.
The identity behaves like damaged evidence: formal enough to be trusted, unstable enough to make that trust feel dangerous.
Not the fear of dying. The fear of being undone.
GEISTEDITORIAL / TITLE
GEIST MONOARCHIVE / SYSTEM VOICE
ABSENCE#050505FIELD
RECORD#EEEEEAEVIDENCE
WOUND#8B1717RUPTURE
ASH#55565BMEMORY
05
THE VISUAL LANGUAGE
FIVE WAYS TO DISAPPEAR.
Each cover is a different failure of recognition. Together, the five images read like recovered records from the same impossible archive - specific in subject, consistent in dread.
06
APPLICATION
AN ANTHOLOGY WITH ONE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
The covers, archive language, and thematic index create a collection architecture that can hold five different stories while making their shared obsession impossible to miss.
THE SYSTEM, APPLIEDAN ANTHOLOGY WITH ONE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
The covers, archive language, and thematic index create a collection architecture that can hold five different stories while making their shared obsession impossible to miss.
07
EXPERIENCE
THE READER ENTERS THROUGH A BROKEN RECORD.
The site opens as an identity search that cannot resolve. From there, the archive exposes the collection’s themes, shared anatomy, and five novels without explaining away the fear.
FAILED AUTHENTICATION
The opening makes loss of identity a lived interaction.
THEMATIC INDEX
Memory, names, testimony, and forgetting orient the collection.
STORY DOSSIERS
Each novel retains mystery while declaring its unique mechanism of fear.
08
THE RESULT
A system with gravity.
The anthology gains a thesis, not just a look. Five different novels now share one disturbing logic: horror that erases before it kills - and an experience that makes the audience feel that erasure begin.
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