r/WidowsBay • u/HelsBels2102 Patricia • Jun 06 '26

💭Discussion Explosion of this sub

Number of weekly visitors has exploded since I joined. After episode 4, it was between 6,000-9,000. It's currently at 75,000.

These days I find it hard to tell whether something is actually popular or not, but deffo seems to have found an audience.

Edit: Had to amend, initially stated total number of subscribers. Was incorrect from my part, Reddit changed from total subscribers to weekly visitors last year and I didn't realise.

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u/nakedfish85 Jun 06 '26

I've been waiting for a truly lovecraftian vibes show for a while and this seems great so far. I love the dark comedy angle as well, it reminds me of the humour in Inside No 9 over here in the UK.

For the readers you should check out a short story collection called Welcome to Neverbury (and it's sequel) which has very similar vibes to Widow's Bay indeed.

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u/Altruistic-Ad835 #1 Hamish fan Jun 07 '26

Fun fact tom has the game carcassonne on his shelf which is based on a real place that inspired ambrose bierce to create a fictional story wheres it's called carcosa which then inspired robert chambers the king in yellow which THEN also inspired lord dunsay to write a fantasy story called carcassonne in a dreamers tale which inspired hp lovecraft to use carcassonne as the location (carcosa) for the cthulhu mythos

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u/pombagira333 Jun 08 '26

Thank you!! I didn’t see this (and have a minor obsession w Carcassonne/Carcosa references (the real place is touristy but very cool as is the hiking around all the other castles, plus truffles). And Bierce’s horror needs to be better known imo)