History NightmareFuel / TheChroniclesOfNarnia

** When Caspian's initial party arrives at the Lone Islands (and not bearing any Narnian flags), the whole area is strangely deserted. Before the crew have taken a few steps onto the shore, suddenly there's a massive [[JumpScare DONG!]] that makes them jump, and Caspian warily raises his crossbow... yet nothing else follows but more silence. In an instant, they and the audience now know that something's majorly wrong, but they don't know ''[[NothingIsScarier what]]''.

* During the scene where people are being sold into slavery, the people who aren't get sacrificed to the Green Mist. It covers the boats and they're gone without a trace.

* The TruthInTelevision premise of Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe - being separated from your family (one parent left in a civilian danger zone and one of which is directly fighting a war) because your enemies are raining bombs on your home every night - UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront.

** During exploration of a then uncharted island, Caspian, Edmund, Lucy, and Reepicheep discover discarded equipment that is Narnian make, likely meaning one of the seven lords they're seeking is nearby. Further exploration reveals a lake close to them, but in its depths is a statue of a golden man. However, they soon learn that the water is cursed to turn anything touching it into pure gold. This becomes massive nightmare fuel on its own as implications of this set in. The kids could have drank or touched the water at any moment, and were about ready to, Edmund himself even remarking that he was lucky he wasn't barefoot as the toes of his boots were touching the water and became the indication of the water's curse. However, as they point out, the gold statue shows that someone, later deduced to be Lord Restimar, wasn't as lucky...
** It gets worse! Even once the water's cursed properties become known, and a test made to be positive, Caspian declares the island Narnian property and demands secrecy of it from everyone else on pain of death due to the enormous wealth the island presented. Edmund however takes massive offense to this due to being one of the Four Lords from the past. Both of them nearly draw swords on one another with Lucy growing angry over their actions before Aslan appears on a hill and everyone suddenly becomes lucid. Reepicheep notes that not only is the water cursed, but ''the whole island itself seems to be under one''. Accidentally dying due to the water's curse is bad enough, but turning on your friends and family due to the curse on the whole island is a different one altogether...

** The illustrations of Tash, it's a four-armed, bird-faced creature in Mesoamerican garbs, who resembles [[Film/TheDarkCrystal a Skeksis]], with Tash being a visual predecessor that inspired the look.

* In the hast of the final battle, Shift ends up being thrown into the tent to be devoured by Tash. AssholeVictim he may be, one can imagine the horrors he might have gone through considering what happened to Ginger just by looking at him.

-->""There are the trees," said the Beaver. "They're always listening. Most of them are on our side, but there are trees that would betray us to her."

** This is made worse by the fact that the longer you remain in the Wood Between Worlds, the more you forget, and the less motivated you become to do anything. As the Wood itself isn't tied to any specific world or Universe, it contains none of the ''purpose'' of a specific world or Universe. If you don't re-enter another pool quickly enough, you will eventually lose all memory and all motivation to act, ensuring that you will remain trapped in the Wood, outside of time and space, forever.

* The Wood Between Worlds itself. It's depicted as a quiet forest completely devoid of dotted with many wide pools of supposedly water, each of which served as a portal to a different world, with dead worlds's puddles becoming dried water holes. The eerie silence, the implications that it's essentially the physical manifestation of the multiverse, and the lack of life invoke [[NothingIsScarier a dissonantly creepy atmosphere in spite of not showing anything explicitly horrific]].

* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Island Where Dreams Come True]]. While the name sounds like a paradise, this island is anything but one. Arriving within a cloud of darkness, the Dawn Treader crew end up finding Lord Rhoop swimming away in fear. The crew comment on the name and how pleasant it sounds, until Rhoop clarifies something horrific. As dreams on this island come true, so do the nightmares everyone fears and has.

[[caption-width-right:350:''I don't know about you, but if [[EldritchAbomination Tash]], [[Main/Satan the evil bird god]], suddenly appeared and snatched me under its arm, I'd be terrified too.'']]

* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Island Where Dreams Come True]]

* Goldwater AKA Deathwater Island

** Tash in general is simply a nightmarish creature. He's only briefly referenced throughout the series in very, VERY minor and obscure points, almost like an afterthought, but ''The Last Battle'' not only brings out more of his supposed character, but reveals him in his horrific glory. His first appearance is marked by Eustace remarking on the stench of death long before Tash's presence is even noticed. When he's seen, not only is he seen as what's illustrated, but it remarks that even the grass dies at his feet as he walks, his arms stretched out as if to snatch up Narnia. The kids feel relief when they make a decision that leads AWAY from the horrible god...

* The illustrations of Tash, it's a four-armed, bird-faced creature in Mesoamerican garbs, who resembles [[Film/TheDarkCrystal a Skeksis]], with Tash being a visual predecessor that inspired the look.

*** What Tash is in the narrative. While the White Witch is [[SatanicArchetype a stand-in for the Devil]], Tash is [[TheAntiGod is the opposing opposite force]] to the point that any noble action done in Tash's name is actually in Aslan's and visa-versa. [[MadeOfEvil Being so evil that nothing good can be done in its name and any evil done in the name of good is actually in its service]].

* AssholeVictim he may be, but Shift the Ape being eaten by Tash counts.

* The hag (in the scene where they're trying to bring back the White Witch).

* The illustrations of Tash, it's a four-armed, bird-faced creature in Mesoamerican garbs, who resembles [[Film/ThDarkCrystal a Skeksis]], with Tash being a visual predecessor that inspired the look.

* The illustrations of Tash.
** Tash in general is simply a nightmarish creature. He's only briefly referenced throughout the series in very, VERY minor and obscure points, almost like an afterthought, but ''The Last Battle'' not only brings out more of his supposed character, but reveals him in his horrific glory. His first appearance is marked by Eustace remarking on the stench of death long before Tash's presence is even noticed. When he's seen, not only is he seen as what's illustrated, but it remarks that even the grass dies at his feet as he walks, his arms stretched out as if to snatch up Narnia. Nightmare Fuel indeed, for the kids included as even they feel relief when they make a decision that leads AWAY from the horrible god...

* The [[SeaMonster Sea]] [[AnimalisticAbomination Serpent]]. At first it just seems like a regular (if mildly scary) Sea Serpent but then partway through the battle... it ''opens up'' to reveal '''''hundred and hundreds of insectoid legs''''', all writhing around. It's effectively combining several [[PrimalFear Primal Fears]]: fear of drowning at sea, a huge foe, and a fear of insects.

-->“Fools!” said the man, stamping his foot with rage. “That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand, come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.” There was about half a minute's silence and then, with a great clatter of armour, the whole crew were tumbling down the main hatch as quick as they could and flinging themselves on the oars to row as they had never rowed before; and Drinian was swinging round the tiller, and the boatswain was giving out the quickest stroke that had ever been heard at sea. For it had taken everyone just that half minute to remember certain dreams they had had — dreams that make you afraid of going to sleep again — and to realize what it would mean to land on a country where dreams come true.

* Eustace goes into battle as a dragon and ends up getting stabbed by one of their allies, a man so insane he mistakes Eustace for an enemy. Eustace gets better thanks to Aslan, but by that point, he'd been turned into a strange creature, forced to re-learn how to do a lot of everyday stuff, and then forced himself to be brave enough to fight a Sea Serpent. If he died, he wouldn't even have been himself.

** All of this is also echoed in a warning that Aslan gives to Digory and Polly before returning them home as he takes them to the Wood Between Worlds one final time. Here, he shows them a dried up water-hole that the children had used as a gateway to Charn and warns them that though their world (read: ''OUR WORLD'') hadn't quite reached the evil Charn had, it had enough in it to start heading in that direction and that someone may also learn either [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique the Deplorable Word]] or something akin to it. Aslan is warning that should things continue, our world would vanish out of existence just like Charn did...

!!!The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

!!!''The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe''

!!!''Voyage of the Dawn Treader''

* The underground kingdom from ''The Silver Chair'' gives off ''a lot'' of just... quietly creepy vibes. It's very dark, only lit by dim lamps. The gnome guards repeat themselves often, giving an uncanny effect, and they're completely under the witch's thumb. Then there are all the sleeping people and animals, who have been trapped there for who knows how long, and the gnomes claim will never leave.

* The TruthInTelevision premise of Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe - [[AdultFear being separated from your family]] (one parent left in a civilian danger zone and one of which is directly fighting a war) because your enemies are raining bombs on your home every night - UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront.

* The fate of Ginger the Cat in ''The Last Battle''. What he saw in the stable didn't just [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drive him mad]], it reduced him from a talking cat to a madly insane ''ordinary'' cat. The rough equivalent for a human would be something so traumatizing that it regressed the mind to earliest childhood, or to behaving like a non-human primate.

* Goldwater AKA [[spoiler:Deathwater]] Island
** During exploration of a then uncharted island, Caspian, Edmund, Lucy, and Reepicheep [[spoiler:discover discarded equipment that is Narnian make, likely meaning one of the seven lords they're seeking is nearby. Further exploration reveals a lake close to them, but in its depths is a statue of a golden man. However, they soon learn that the water is cursed to turn anything touching it into pure gold. This becomes massive nightmare fuel on its own as implications of this set in. The kids could have drank or touched the water at any moment, and were about ready to, Edmund himself even remarking that he was lucky he wasn't barefoot as the toes of his boots were touching the water and became the indication of the water's curse. However, as they point out, the gold statue shows that someone, later deduced to be Lord Restimar, wasn't as lucky...]]
** It gets worse! Even once the water's cursed properties become known, and a test made to be positive, Caspian [[spoiler:declares the island Narnian property and demands secrecy of it from everyone else on pain of death due to the enormous wealth the island presented. Edmund however takes massive offense to this due to being one of the Four Lords from the past. Both of them nearly draw swords on one another with Lucy growing angry over their actions before Aslan appears on a hill and everyone suddenly becomes lucid. Reepicheep notes that not only is the water cursed, but ''the whole island itself seems to be under one''. Accidentally dying due to the water's curse is bad enough, but turning on your friends and family due to the curse on the whole island is a different one altogether...]]
* ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' has the scene when the heroes find out that [[spoiler:the giants killed and ate a sapient stag, and are planning to do the same to ''them'' at the Autumn Feast]]. Complete with a possible ShoutOut to Creator/DamonKnight's story "ToServeMan" [[note]]which was published a few months before Lewis finished writing ''The Silver Chair'', though the famous [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan episode]] of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' came later[[/note]] when [[spoiler:"Man" and "Marsh-wiggle" show up as entries in the giants' cookbook]].
* Also in ''The Silver Chair'', Prince Rilian's abduction and imprisonment. [[spoiler:The poor man was bewitched to forget his own identity. Perhaps even worse, the enchantment lifts every night, but he can't do anything while lucid. See, during the day, he's convinced that he'll go berserk and turn into a monstrous snake if he's not restrained at night, so he has himself bound to the silver chair before his mind returns. Plus, the villain forced him to ''marry'' her, so try not to think about what she might've been doing to him all this time she's had him under her control.]] And keep in mind that he had to endure all this for ''six years''. Additionally, the villain who did all this is a DiabolusExNihilo, which adds an air of NothingIsScarier to the whole situation.

* The [[SeaMonster Sea]] [[AnimalisticAbomination Serpent]]. At first it just seems like a regular (if mildly scary) Sea Serpent but then partway through the battle... [[spoiler:it ''opens up'' to reveal '''''hundred and hundreds of insectoid legs''''', all writhing around]]. It's effectively combining several [[PrimalFear Primal Fears]]: fear of drowning at sea, a huge foe, and a fear of [[spoiler:insects]].
* The Dark Island. In the book it's a vaguely creepy location that is never mentioned after it is visited. In the movie, [[spoiler: it is a GeniusLoci EldritchAbomination that wants nothing more than to swallow up the whole world with its own fears, and it is never explained where it came from or even why it exists, and it created the aforementioned Sea Serpent.]]

* The fate of Ginger the Cat in ''The Last Battle''. What he saw in the stable didn't just [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drive him mad]], it reduced him from a talking cat to a madly insane ''ordinary'' cat. The rough equivalent for a human would be something so traumatizing that it regressed her mind to earliest childhood, or to behaving like a nonhuman primate.

* The TruthInTelevision premise of Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe - [[AdultFear being seperated from your family]] (one parent left in a civilian danger zone and one of which is directly fighting a war) because your enemies are raining bombs on your home every night - UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront.

* The fate of Ginger the Cat in ''The Last Battle''. What he saw in the stable didn't just [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drive him mad]], it reduced him from a talking cat to a madly insane ''ordinary'' cat. The rough equivalent for a human would be something so traumatizing that it regressed her mind to earliest childhood.

* The [[SeaMonster Sea]] [[AnimalisticAbomination Serpent]]. At first it just seems like a regular (if mildly scary) Sea Serpent but then partway through the battle... [[spoiler:it ''opens up'' to reveal '''''hundred and hundreds of insectoid legs''''', all writhing around]]. It's effectivly combining several [[PrimalFear Primal Fears]]: fear of drowning at sea, a huge foe, and a fear of [[spoiler:insects]].