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Nightmare Fuel / Mickey Mouse Works

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  • Pluto being buried alive by Minnie in "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto".
    • There’s also the part in Hell, where Pluto’s shoulder devil grows to a massive size and laughs maniacally.
  • Huey, Dewey, and Louie fooling Donald into thinking they're zombies and that he had killed them in Donald's Halloween Scare. They eventually chase him into an empty grave, shovels in hand...
    • Donald poses as a Jason Voorhees Expy to scare the kids out of their candy, but his initial appearance is pretty frightening nonetheless.
    • The nephews posing as zombies who were scared to death is pretty creepy and they threaten to bury Donald alive for it.
  • The Donald's Goofy World short. It has Donald dreaming that everyone in the entire world have turned into copies of Goofy up to and including Donald himself. It's creepier than it sounds.
    • Although much of the cartoonish music makes this somewhat Nightmare Retardant.
    • The short bears an eerie resemblance to Philip K. Dick's short story Silvia Everywhere with a few minor changes (including the All Just a Dream ending). That was a story for adults; this is a cartoon for kids.
  • And the Organ Donors short, where Mickey, Donald, and Goofy donate pipe organs, but they get called by a creepy toymaker who wants to steal Mickey's heart to bring a giant doll to life.
  • One "Pluto Gets the Paper" segment involves Pluto getting sucked into a street sweeper, and landing in the tank. Several other visibly terrified dogs are trapped in there, prompting Pluto to flee back the way he came, leaving them to whatever fate they face.
  • "Mickey's Mechanical House": The robot chef becomes a control freak over Mickey's life and is nearly invincible during his ensuing fight with the mouse. Mickey eventually causes him to crash when water is poured on him, and he's forced to flee with Pluto from the destruction of their new home.
  • Goofy, and eventually Donald, are literally killed for How to Haunt a House. Even though it's temporary and played for laughs, it's still pretty frightening to see Donald and Goofy die.
    • The title cards for the short are also spooky in set up, a cemetery at night during a storm.
  • "Dance of the Goofys": The kid who taxidermizes insects is rather unsettling. He sees that the Goofy's are perfectly sentient beings but he's still out to kill them.
    • Earlier in the short, one Goofy is Eaten Alive by a frog. After that, two more each get eaten by a fish.
  • The witch from Hansel and Gretel fattens up Mickey and Minnie and then runs downstairs in a mad fit of glee, and immediately prepares her kitchen to cook roast mice. Mickey realizes something is up, and the witch's approaching shadow is pretty creepy. They then run for their lives, besieged by the Witch's magical candy and sweets.
    • The two fail to escape and are caged. They see the witch's kitchen and realize what she's planning to do to them. She then looks them over and decides to kill and cook Mickey first while Minnie is initially helpless.
    • The two mice end up in the witch's oven, which is more like a chamber of a hellish inferno, and barely escape.

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