Silent Hill 2 remake devs Bloober Team reveal Layers of Fear 3 via creepy poetry reading

There's nothing more spooky than having to neatly get your message across in a limited number of words which may or may not have to rhyme or stick to iambic pentameter. That's something Polish horror devs Bloober Team clearly understand, since they whipped out some William Blake poetry over the weekend, in order to reveal that Layers of Fear 3 will be a thing.

The folks behind 2024's Silent Hill 2 remake and Cronos: The New Dawn used this reveal to close out a Valentines' weekend showcase commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Layers of Fear series, which kicked off with 2016's Layers of Fear. In this cinematic teaser for the next entry, a creepy bloke creepily read through Blake's The Sick Rose while sitting in a creepy chair surrounded by creepy portraits, one of which was of a strange hairless creature with no nose and two pointed fangs. The poem goes as follows:

O Rose thou art sick.

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night

In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy

Midway through the creepy bloke's reading, one of the paintings falls off the wall. Rather than blaming shoddy sticking apparatus, the man instead said: "Don't you worry about my little friend there, he tries to help. But the poor thing hasn't quite got the hang of the afterlife yet."

The teaser ended with the creepy bloke getting creepily serious for a second and turning over an hourglass. Sadly, there was no indication of when Layers of Fear 3 might arrive, so it remains to the release dateless void for now.

"Layers of Fear is an effective scare 'em up but the sense of dislocation and the lack of character development left me feeling as if I'd enjoyed a thematically messy series of shocks rather than a cohesive horror story," Adam Smith (RPS in peace) wrote in his review of the first game in the series. "It's a collection of scary things that are tangentially related to the idea of creative blocks and familial cruelty rather than an exploration of the artist or his personality flaws. By the time the credits rolled, I knew very little about this particular painter that I couldn't have learned by reading a brief synopsis."

Here's hoping Layers of Fear 3's spooks delve a bit deeper and deliver an undeniably through scarening.