Occult

Secrets, patterns, and what moves unseen.

The occult is about what hides behind the ordinary. It includes horror, yes, but also magical realism, spiritual inquiry, and slow intrusion. These tools are for players and gamemasters who want to shape stories where the unknown is present, personal, and never just a metaphor.

What Occult Means Here

In Lightspress games, the occult isn’t a genre. It’s a pressure. It can frighten, transform, or quietly change the rules of a world that otherwise looks like our own. Horror lives here, but so do quieter stories, rituals in abandoned homes, dreams that cross thresholds, or characters who begin to notice what others ignore.

These tools help you build stories shaped by secrecy, pattern, inheritance, and belief. You decide how visible the strange becomes. There are no monsters unless the story needs them. The fear comes from implication, not spectacle.

The occult isn't fantasy with new labels. It belongs to a different emotional register. These stories are about the present bending, not another world appearing.

How to Use These Tools

You can use these books with The Simple Approach or fold them into any modern, surreal, or supernatural game. They’re modular by design. Each one gives you narrative scaffolding and world traits that shift slowly, steadily, and meaningfully.

These tools work well for:

• Folk horror and ritual unease

• Magical realism and subtle surrealism

• Paranormal discovery and inherited power

• Quiet dramas touched by something other

Whether your story unfolds in a farmhouse, a hallway, or a city that no longer feels the same, these tools help you hold the tension of what lies just outside ordinary sight.

The occult shapes what people sense but cannot name. These tools give that shape narrative weight.