Season 1 episode 2 is pretty creepy. Ophelia finds the withering corpse of Alvin Carter in a closet, and with each wrongful mouse click, the portrait of the elderly woman in the upstairs hallway starts bleeding from the eyes, and the painting slowly transforms into Ophelia, who — upon the complete transformation of the woman — jumps from the window above the cavern at the bottom of the cliff.
The next episode — while better-lit (at first) — is just as creepy. The crazy farmer you met in the first episode? He dies in the Cold Open of episode 3, implicitly as a result of Demonic Possession, and if you click aimlessly too much, he'll come back to life with a pair of red eyes, and start to hunt you down.
In the séance episode, Ophelia encounters the Cardinal in the future. He hands her the Death Tarot card and taunts her, "Look who dares defile the temple of Shub-Niggurath. Prepare yourself to suffer, like the mad witch who gave birth to you!" Then he does ... something to make her eyes bleed, then she looks down at her hands and sees a pair of eyes. Which then turn into a skull. The final moments of the vision have the room suddenly flooded with skulls.
From the same episode, Ophelia travels to the future and looks around at Gregor, Prescott, and the Baroness. The latter two have become withered and elderly. But Gregor? He's become a skeleton, still sitting in the exact position as he is in the past and present.
Unlike previous Elder Star servants who will be oblivious to your presence unless you walk right in front of them, Barnstable will notice and kill you if you linger near him for more than just a few seconds- a rather rare situation in the series where the player can die while completely idle.
Just ... all of episode 2 of season 2, especially the first half before Ophelia descends the ladder beneath the statue. She awakens in her dressing room, has a frightening vision of the Cardinal, sees a man fall from a height, and is chased by a shadowy Eldritch Abomination. The background color scheme and the music doesn't help, either. Oh yeah, and once she reaches the subterranean vaults, she has to get the correct combinations to open them or else she will eventually be crushed by the ceiling.
The Cardinal. He may not look quite as monstrous as most of the horrible things encountered in the series, but knowing that he's just a man (albeit immortal) and has the power to seal the fate of the human race in his grasp is highly disturbing. It doesn't help that seemingly everything the heroes do to try and stop him is futile, and he's bested them twice. Even the implication that he was eventually beaten at his own game doesn't help, as it seems that his defeat was only temporary, if the meetings between Bishop and Ophelia mean anything.
