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. You Have Been Warned.
"The Cornerfolk are transdimensional species."
The Corner Folklore (Stylized as CORNERFOLKLORE) is an Analog Horror series, with its main format being Found Footage and Mockumentaries. It was created by Alex Kansas/Mister Manticore, also notable for creating THE MONUMENT MYTHOS, The Trinity Desk Project, and The Ningen.
The series tells us about the small interdimensional visitors known as the Cornerfolk and their effect on the people who encounter them. These visitors can travel through dimensions via what Riley Tillon, the protagonist of the first episode, refers to as "corners," points where realities, mostly Two-Dimensional planes, intersect. Hence the name "corners," due to the shape they theoretically have.
Its first episode centers around a man named Riley Tillon documenting his discovery of the beings and his fall into obsession with them, eventually culminating in him entering their homeworld, which he dubbed the "Cornerworld."
This series provides examples of:
- Admiring the Abomination: Riley Tillon and implicitly, the inspiration for him become extremely obsessed of the Cornerfolk and the Cornerworld, up to the point they lose their job over their investigation of them and find themselves unable to stop dreaming about the Cornerworld.
- Apocalyptic Log: Riley Tillon documents his Sanity Slippage in video, he eventually tries to travel to the Cornerworld and ends up with his organs folded in many axes. As of 2020, he is under the care of his close friends.
- All Caps: The title of the videos and the series itself are stylized using all caps and no spacing between words.
- Ambiguous Situation: Most of the information we have from the Cornerworld are merely theoretical and/or fictionalized in CORNERFOLK, leaving it unclear what's real and what's not.
- Author Avatar: CORNERGIRL reveals that Alex Kansas not only is a canon character to the story, but he also created the first CORNERFOLK video in-universe, with whoever's filming the video being the inspiration for Riley Tillon.
- Canon Welding: The series was originally its own thing, but as of the season 2 finale of The Monument Mythos, it has been retroactively connected to it via The Multiverse.
- Dimensional Traveller: The titular entities are this, using corners to travel between the Cornerworld and multiple realities, mainly Two-Dimensional ones. And as revealed later, Alex's Inspiration is able to do this as well.
- Eldritch Location: In the little that we see of it, the Cornerworld seems to be this. It's entirely made out of, well, corners. It doesn't seem to be very kind to the human body, as it's shown it'll fold your organs into axes and likely turn you into worshipping them.
- Evil Tainted the Place: The Deanverse, the main setting for The Monument Mythos, is implied to have become the Cornerworld as an aftermath of the Great Division.
- Fun with Subtitles:
- Played for Horror. In CORNERFOLK, you can see that as the subtitles vanish during the presentation of the concept Cornerworld, you can see the words "prison" and "nursery" overlap it.
- In CORNERGIRL, something similar happens, showing a hidden monologue of the man recording."She was too old for the nursery. Too young for prison. But she made the perfect gift. Watch the corners."
- Hell Is That Noise: The sounds heard in the Cornerworld consist of various distorted screams. These are presumably caused by Special Trees or by the corners forming the Cornerworld, as similar screams could be heard in Wonderland in LIBERTYLURKERS back in The Monument Mythos.
- Human Sacrifice: In CORNERGIRL, the man recording the video is apparently sacrificing a girl to the Cornerworld, calling her a "perfect gift" for the Cornerworld despite being "too old for the nursery" and "too young for prison."
- Implicit Prison: Both Alex and his inspiration call the Cornerworld "prison" or "nursery".
- Inn Between the Worlds: Riley suspects that his home may act like a place to rest for the Cornerfolk when he's not around, as travelling through dimensions seems to tire them up.
- Ride the Lightning: The Cornerfolk moving between dimensions is shown as a brief flash of an unknown energy appearing from the corners they go in and out from. The origin of this energy is implied to be related to the Special Trees, which flashed electricity whenever they activated.
- Ripped from the Headlines: An in-universe example. The first episode, CORNERFOLK, is revealed to be inspired by a real man's story, who first appears in CORNERGIRL.
- Room Full of Crazy: By the end of CORNERFOLK, Riley has been drawing the Cornerworld for weeks and hanged most of his drawings to his room.
- Show Within a Show: The very first episode is revealed to be this in the description, although it does say that the folk are infact real.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: Mixed with Creepy Monotone in CORNERGIRL. During the author's monologue, the voice of a man explaining what corners are can be heard.
- Time Dilation: The Cornerworld is implied to cause this to its victims. Riley claims that he lost his job due to repeated absences, but he feels like he just left his office just hours ago. It's implied that this quality of the Cornerworld is directly inherited from Wonderland.
- Transhuman Abomination: The Monument Mythos reveals that the Cornerfolk were once the inhabitants of the Deanverse, who were transformed into the Folk after The End of the World as We Know It.
- Transhuman Treachery: After their travel to the Cornerworld, Alex's Inspiration is clearly not well-intended, and willing to sacrifice people to the Cornerworld.
- Stealth Sequel: The season 2 finale of THE MONUMENT MYTHOS reveals that the survivors of The Great Division have transformed into the Cornerfolk.
- You Can't Go Home Again: This is the situation Alex Kansas has to go through, the reason being that he's a "cthonaut," charged with the mission to spread the story of his now destroyed homeworld with this new universe.
- Was Once Human: The Cornerfolk are none other than the survivors of the destruction of the Deanverse.
"Although this work is fictitious, the Folk are not."
