Nightmare Fuel / Fan Works A To M

35MM: A Musical Exhibition

• Similar to the animatics for Heathers songs, some fans have started to make animatics based on "The Ballad of Sara Berry."
  • In annapantsu’s animatic, Sara’s murder victims are represented by silhouettes drawn on her bedroom mirror. Every time one of them dies, a bloody red "x" appears over them.
  • YewShrub’s animatic has a viscerally horrifying moment. When Sara’s father scolds her for the second time, she sees him as a black silhouette with only raw gums and teeth visible, and then the teeth extend from his mouth using fleshy tentacles and cling onto her face!

The Amazing Digital Circus

• In Vent Art, Gangle draws a picture that make her happy, but Jax cruelly tears it in half for no apparent reason, and it's implied he does this regularly. Some time later, after Pomni has arrived, Jax gives her a tour of the circus grounds, including Gangle's room (which he refers to as "Crybaby's room"). She's left her closet open, and Jax opens it to see dozens of pictures Gangle drew of him being set on fire, hanged, torn into pieces, dismembered, crushed with anvils, etc. One of them just shows Jax's eyeball floating in a puddle of blood. Another one shows his entire face peeled off and dangling from his skull while his eyes are bleeding.
• In this comic, Jax has a nightmare where he gets Abstracted, but retains his consciousness even after being tossed into the cellar and fusing with the other Abstracted. He hears Ragatha confide in Pomni that she feels relieved about Jax being gone because he was such a jerk. That's the last time they ever mention him, and he remains in the cellar for years, fully conscious and in terrible pain, regretting how he treated everyone and slowly forgetting who he is.
  Jax: I slowly forgot myself as well. Though that's more than I deserve.

Animal Crossing

• With New Leaf came the possibility to share dream versions of your town via the Internet. Inevitably, creepy places started popping up. Nintendo apparently didn't notice, as the only reason the towns were taken down is because all towns were taken down when the Welcome amiibo update was released, with all dream towns needing to be uploaded from scratch (which happened with at least one such town).
  • Aika, a village that does something unlike any other: it tells a story. It's a horror story filled with more interpretations than this game has items. It's all VERY unsettling and completely out of place in such a cute series as Animal Crossing. The dream address is 2D00-002A-49A0.
    • The aforementioned Hypno K.K., a song that is creepy in its own right, has been infamously used with Aika village to the point where the song can barely be brought up without any mention of the town. K.K. Synth also gets used in a maze in one of the houses. It balances Nightmare Fuel with being rather sad.
    • It is actually possible to become temporarily trapped in one of the player houses. One house's main room is a maze made up of barely visible blocks and stools that you have to jump on and rotate. When leaving the room at the end, it's possible for the player villager that owns the house to show up. Due to the layout of the house, the villager will spawn in such a way to block any exit from the house, forcing you to wait until they leave.
    • And now for a bit of Fridge Horror. Aika is a popular dream town that's visited by lots of players via the Dream Suite. After an update, it gained a new feature: various parts of blue and pink PJ outfits scattered throughout the town, with creepy skeletons buried near some of said parts. The implications here are terrifying, to say the least.
  • Although the dream town is not completely empty, it still feels creepily vacant; main street is blocked off by a perpetually frozen train and the town hall is closed. However, the worst has to be Re-Tail, sounding almost post-apocalyptic; when interacting with the door to the shop, it reads,
    "Re-Tail: Temporarily closed forever."
    • Though granted, every Re-Tail in the dream world says that. But Aika's atmosphere makes it feel like it just "shouldn't" be like that, despite being normal.
    • Every dream Main Street is also blocked by a train, softening things a bit... But, again, given Aika's atmosphere, it still works. It almost makes you wonder what Main Street would look like if it could be altered to match the rest of the town.
  • Another horror village is Hitokui, the cannibal village. While it's not as ambiguous or well-known as Aika, it's very detailed and disturbing. You can find an in-depth walkthrough here.
  • There's also the town of Shachipanda, which features a little girl, a fallen superstar, a drug addict, and some very creepy basements.
    • In a previous version of the town, the two girls were occasionally represented by two actual villagers — Francine and Chrissy, a pair of rabbits who are popular to have as a matching pair and are frequently interpreted to be sisters. The things that were implied to happen to the girls of Shachipanda, mainly to Yamii/Chrissy, weren't exactly fun; imagine applying that to one's own Chrissy. The town has since been updated and lost most of the creepy rooms (aside from a special few), but tours of the previous version still exist.
  • There's a town called Aniville that gives off the boarding school of horror themes... as well as some Silent Hill feelings to it....
  • This [1]dream town themed around the smug squirrel villager Marshal is deeply unsettling. A story of stalking, the Mayor of the town is obsessed with Marshal. The wallpaper, furniture, and flooring has Marshal's face on it, there is a perfect replica of Marshal's house in the back room of the Mayor's house, there is a pattern of Marshal in a sexually suggestive pose on one of the beds (and in the same room there are a bunch of cribs with pictures of Marshal in front of them, the implication being that the Mayor and Marshal had many children), there is a telescope in a room of the Mayor's house pointed towards Marshal's house, if you rotate the wedding room there's an axe in the corner, and there are two graves side by side in the town, one with Marshal's Japanese name written on it and the other with the Mayor's name written on it. It makes you want to find Marshal and tell him to run for his life.
  • Although not an actual Dream Town, with Animal Crossing Plaza for the Wii U allowing people to share Dream Town codes, Video Game Cruelty Potential arose. Simply put, people could share these or even MAKE THEIR TOWN scary, and then people wanna just kick that Wii U controller.
  • Here's an entire index of horror towns. Sweet dreams!
  • In New Horizons, it is possible to meet the human player inhabiting the island, or rather, their "dream" version, for a lack of better words; they behave similarly to villagers, but when we talk to them, they have only one line of dialog, which is whatever they wrote as a short comment on their passport, making them extremely Uncanny Valley.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• The fanfic The Chong Sheng Trilogy. The first installment, War, ends with Ba Sing Se being carpet-bombed to rubble while the characters are trapped underground listening to it and freaking out. The second installment, Peace, involves, among other things, Katara witnessing Jet's torture and murder at the hands of the Rhinos, and subsequently going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge... using their own blood to rip them apart, a side-story involving some original characters where a troubled soldier tortures his own father by slowly removing his skin in small patches and giving him an occasional hit of opium just to keep him conscious through it, and lastly, Zuko confronting and killing Ozai, who has lost his mind entirely to the point that he thinks he's fighting Iroh instead. Also, one of the aforementioned original characters is a borderline pedophile, and very heavily implied to be sexing it up with Azula.
• The Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfic "When All Your Dreams Come True." The premise: Zuko succeeds in capturing Aang and his friends sometime during Book One and takes them back to the Fire Nation. The reality: Sokka immediately gets tortured and killed, since the Fire Nation has no use for him. Katara gets her tongue cut out and turned into a gladiator-style "training exercise" for Fire Nation soldiers, to get them to practice fighting a waterbender. She eventually loses an eye, becomes known as the Widowmaker, and evolves into a sort of proto-Hama. Aang gets both his eyes put out and thrown into prison to live out the remainder of his life in misery. He goes insane. Toph wasn't even in book one, but also gets killed off for no good reason but to add angst. Finally, Zuko goes completely mad from guilt and drinks himself into oblivion, conjuring up detailed delusions of himself joining the Avatar and teaching him firebending, falling in love with Katara, bringing down his father, and ending the war. After reading, you feel like you want to scrub your brain clean of the images.
• The Avatar: The Last Airbender Fanfiction, Bad Ends, is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. It's a series of one shots depicting a rather different ending to what we're expected from episodes and moments in the show. For example, Katara, in her little undercover mission to save Haru from the Earthbending Prison, is captured and sentenced to the barrocks for the men to play with. Then, Remember when Zhao said he wouldn't kill the Avatar, but keep him alive, but just barely? He's strapped to a table and has all four limbs chopped off with red-hot garden shears, and is blinded with a hot poker. Honestly, it's a Darker and Edgier retelling of most of the series, and once you read them, you'll be glad the series had the endings that it DID.
  • Some of the worse endings include Appa being killed and eaten by the swampbenders (and then when Aang is freaking out, they offer some of the meat to him), Suki being killed on the day of the comet leading to Sokka being incinerated by Fire Nation soldiers and Toph falling to her death, Azula's lightning hitting Katara at the Last Agni Kai and Zuko inadvertently gutting her with his swords, young!Azula and young!Zuko being caught listening in on Ozai and Azulon and Ozai murdering Zuko with lightning right there, Katara accidentally ripping Aang, Sokka, and Toph apart with bloodbending.
• The Avatar: The Last Airbender fic 31 Days of Maiko is mostly Heartwarming Moments with a bit of Tear Jerker thrown in, but Chapter 17 is definitely nightmarish. Azula, after an indefinite amount of time being mistreated by the asylum guards, decides that enough is enough. She spends her time collecting small sharp objects, which the guards and doctors don't notice, and waiting for Zuko and Mai to visit her. And when they do...
  Azula: (falsely cheerful) I feel as though good things are coming. I think I'm going to make a mark.
  Zuko: Oh? How?
  Azula: I've been planning something.
  Mai: (knows this is leading nowhere good and tries to pull Zuko away) Let's go, Zuko. We should go. (Zuko won't move)
  Azula: (whips something sharp out of her pocket and slices her own throat open, spraying Zuko and Mai with blood)
• Reluctant Hero has a subplot about the spiritual imbalance in the world, since the Avatar was unable to serve as a bridge between the two realms. It's introduced by Sokka, Katara, the Kyoshi Warriors and the children they are keeping safe stranded in a mountain full of jiangshi - hopping zombies sucking the life-force out of you. They're impossible to kill since they're already dead, so they need to be buried in rice, or a sacrifice has to be made to the Mountain Spirit.
  • The reason why Sokka is so afraid of spirits? When he was young, he met some old man who talked about two villages from the South Pole, which disappeared in one night when something came in the night. The old man was the Sole Survivor, but he knew the spirit was after him and begged Sokka to not look what was going to happen to him. Sokka ran home but still glanced back and the thing crawled within him. The boy did his best to keep quiet about it as he feared the thing would gain power from acknowledgement, but when he confronts the Mountain Spirit, it identifies the thing as a seed of wendigo and "purifies" Sokka by making him vomit. Oh, and the wendigo being gone means something else can now try to take its place inside Sokka.

Azumanga Daioh

• "Control" is extremely well-written, includes some well-crafted Fan Characters, it takes some "controversial" approaches to some characters (especially Yukari) without straying too far out of line... and if you've ever considered trying hard drugs before reading this, you never will again. It's rated M not just for some Lemon scenes (some involving rape) but also some of the most graphic violence ever seen in an Azumanga fic (as well as explicit accounts of the horrible pain of drug withdrawal).

The Brave Little Toaster

• The aptly named horror fic Nightmares. The story is a series of first-person vignettes, detailing the horrific dreams of the other four main characters during Toaster's Nightmare Sequence. It starts out only slightly unsettling, but gradually builds up, accumulating in the truly horrifying Chapter 4.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

• Counts of Blood is a good Buffy the Vampire Slayer that crosses over with the Muppets, but its portrayal of Count von Count is terrifying. For starters, he apparently cut up a mathemetician into over a hundred pieces and put them in small boxes, and early on in the story, removes the feet of the poor sap who took the pills he needs to curb his violent tendencies!
• Angelus in Zeppo: Halo is far more terrifying than canon where he was occasionally Narmful. He kidnaps Harmony, tortures her to death, then leaves her strung up from a lightpost as a message to Xander. Angelus also kidnapped Cordelia, torturing her into insanity and while we don't know everything he did, what we do is incredibly horrific. It's even mentioned that only a considerable amount of healing magic has kept her alive for the past two weeks. Finally, Angelus is still pretending to be Angel around Buffy and having sex with her almost nightly.

Codename Kids Next Door

• Rough Halloween shows what would happen if a bunch of teenagers ganged up on two kids in real life-Numbuhs 3 and 4, in spite of all their training and making sure the teens who attacked them don't get off lightly, end up getting a brutal beating, with both ending up unconscious and the former getting her nose broken while the latter is beaten so badly that Numbuh 86 describes his leg as looking like an L and he ends up needing surgery.
• Everything related to Cree's situation in Reunited. Just to start with, the one from the events of canon isn't even her, but rather her Evil Counterpart from the mirror world, Eerc. After making her way to the main world, Eerc kidnaps Cree and takes her place, but not before dumping her in an abandoned broccoli mine (aka, a place where no one would look for her and it's pretty much pure luck she's even found) and breaking her back, just to ensure she couldn't escape. Cree was then forced to spend three years surviving on what is basically poison in the KND world, barely able to move, let alone stand up, all the while knowing that her mirror counterpart is living the life that rightfully belongs to her, dragging her name through the mud and attempting to hurt and even kill her younger sister. Talk about a Fate Worse than Death.
• That time a bomb in Moonbase teleported us to a fantasy world is nightmarish on concept alone, considering that a bunch of kids, some as young as seven, are Trapped in Another World, but most of them land in places that are either safe (Sector V all land fairly close to civilization) or were able to find someone to help them (Lee and Sonia get assistance from the king in order to adapt). The moonbase operatives, however, aren't so lucky. They all land in a desert wasteland and have to spend two weeks looking for any type of civilization and by the time the story checks in on them, they're all pinned down by monsters and Numbuh 86 is sick and unconscious.
• The beginning of The Candygirl is utterly nightmarish. It begins four years before the main series, back when Cree was still an operative. While she and her version of Sector V are investigating a warehouse, an explosion destroys the whole building. While Numbuhs 8A, 8B, Maurice and Numbuh 5 all are able to escape unharmed, Cree isn't so lucky, getting pinned under flaming debris with Maurice noting that he could see the flesh on one of Cree's arms literally melting off her bones. Predictably, she ends up losing the arm as it is too far gone to save.

Doctor Who

• Old, old Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane fanfic in which SJ awakens from a nightmare, in which she and the Doctor have suffocated in the TARDIS control room. At which point he comforts her, pecks her on the forehead, and carries her through the closed doors of the TARDIS, holding her so that she can't see the two dead bodies on the control room floor.
• This Doctor Who Auton-centric fanfic has a moment at the beginning that involves a girl falling into a vat of plasmatically-charged plastic... and being torn apart, molecule by molecule (though she gets better eventually, by being reborn as a non-Auton living mannequin). Doesn't help that one of the original characters is a serial killer bent on "tying up loose ends", and the implication that all of the Doctor Who monsters are real.
  • The sequel features—among other things—Seducer Autons, female Autons that drown their victims in liquid plastic while kissing them.

Dragon Ball

• From Dragon Ball Multiverse we have Universe 16 Pan being strangled to death by Bojack. When it looks like she is about to break out of it, he SNAPS HER NECK.
• In the Dragon Ball fanfic Troop of Beasts, Kakarot never hits his head, with the result that many things become Darker and Edgier. Nightmare Fuel ensues.
  • Since Kakarot never hits his head, he's not the happy-go-lucky All-Loving Hero he is in canon, but a bloodthirsty marauder. Not only does he slaughter huge numbers of people, many of them innocent, but he becomes a Serial Rapist after he forces Colonel Violet to demonstrate how women make children.
  • Speaking of the Red Ribbon Army, they're given a good deal more gravity in this fic, especially since Dr. Gero's early experiments are a major plot point. Suno and the Ox King being forcibly converted into Androids is one of the many, many horrible things they do in this story that didn't happen in canon.

Doki Doki Literature Club

• As if the scene in question wasn't disturbing enough already, this fanmade dub of Yuri's confession is just downright bone-chilling. Besides the creepy image that accompanies it, you can just hear the Sanity Slippage in her voice, and added details like her laugh glitching out and her struggled breathing before finally collapsing add to the unnerving factor.
• Doki Doki Eldritch Horror Club is either this, a Funny Moment, or both, depending on your perspective. In case you don't want to click, it's a sprite edit of an apparent attempt to fuse the "best traits" of all four girls plus Buff Natsuki into one girl, only for it to become a Body Horror monstrosity straight out of The Thing (1982).
  • The best part? It has a name now: Reginald.
• Lesser known Youtuber BryanCroiDragon had some exceptionally brave moments during his Lets Play of "Doki Doki Literature Club." The aforementioned moment of Monika fading into the foreground during Yuri's rambling however had him run to get a crucifix and for the rest of the video he had it with him. It is half Funny Moment and half Nightmare Fuel but eventually the latter takes over. During the take over of the Nightmare Fuel, Jesus actually falls off of the crucifix.
• Things You Missed in Doki Doki Literature Club is actually a very informative and thorough video detailing all the hidden scares and easter eggs in the game. Too bad it's riddled with its own scares courtesy of the video creator. When explaining a particular scare that involves the screen going black, his commentary momentarily becomes unintelligible as an incredibly creepy image of Yuri with a Nightmare Face appears.
• The fan song "Just Monika" is mostly just Black Comedy, but the ending is legitimately creepy—After MC deletes Monika and reunites with the literature club, he promises Sayori that he'll walk home with her. Sayori proceeds to do...this...
  Sayori: Just Sayori...
  Just Sayori!
  Just Sayori!
  Just Sayori!
  Just Sayori!
  Just Sayori!
  Just Sayori!
  JUST SAYORI!
• Another fansong, "Why Did I Say Okie Doki?" by Stupendium, which tells the tale from the perspective of the MC. At the end, they effectively find themself trapped forever with Monika because they can't bring themself to delete her.
  • There's two Minecraft animations of it, each with a different ending—in the "A Version", Stupendium deletes Monika, but in the "B Version", they desperately try to float to the "delete" menu before Monika grabs them and drags them away with a sinister grin on her face, gladly willing to imprison them with her forever.
• WHAT DID MONIKA SAY TO SAYORI? is a fan animation about Monika's 'talk' with Sayori when the MC notices the latter's is acting off. Monika, under a guise of Brutal Honesty, verbally rips Sayori a new one, stating in no uncertain terms that MC does not love her romantically and that any hints otherwise are out of pity. And if that wasn't bad enough, Monika's recording everything she's saying and when finished, replays it in Sayori's head ON LOOP.
  • And after that, at the end of the video, she returns to the other classmates, giving absolutely no fucks about what she just did to her former friend, and her gaze subtly turning towards the front of the screen...
  • Making this worse is that Doki Doki Literature Club Plus revealed that Monika was the first person that Sayori confided in about her depression, so having someone she trusted so much say to her face her depression is the only reason that MC would ever agree to be with her would unquestionably be emotionally traumatizing even without Monika's Mind Rape on top of it.

Fairy Tail

• Beastly Possession is a Fairy Tail fanfic of almost non-stop Nightmare Fuel and gore that borders on Squick. The writer even warns the audience "Don't read while eating."

Five Nights at Freddy's

• This comic is based on a theory that Foxy's behavior in the game is him reliving the last moments of his life. He hid in Pirate's Cove and waited for the right moment to run and get help, but wasn't able to before the killer caught up to him and finished him. So every night when the security guard manages to close the office door before he can get in, he relives his last moment of terror before death.
  RUN
  NO
  DON'T SHUT ME OUT
  HELP
  Too late
  I'm already lost.

Glee

• Dalton contains the thoroughly crazy stalker Adam Clavell. He's got a wall covered in photos of his lust object, Julian, he stuck them to the wall with his own blood, and he's made a hit list consisting of a bunch of photos with the faces mutilated and the words off with his/her head written on the back.
  • The final part of chapter 26 begins with this author's note:
  TRIGGER WARNING for blood, violent acts and images, and the behavior that revolves around this theme. If you are not comfortable with these types of scenes and images, I strongly urge you NOT TO CONTINUE.
• Missing has Sebastian kidnap Kurt and hold him captive for a year, heavily drugging him, conditioning Kurt to be his baby, and threatening to kill him if he resists his "daddy." The forced infantilism is bad enough, but the scariest parts of it are Bud and Kari (Sebastian's friend and the girl he kidnapped and conditioned the same way) and their relationship, and both of the sex scenes.

Harry Potter

• The description of Azkaban in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality — especially the woman who accidentally killed someone, immediately went insane with remorse, and then is forced to relive the moment of the murder over and over by the Dementors. Also, the scenes where Harry is walking around protected by the True Patronus, giving momentary relief to the prisoners in the cells he passes, but forced to keep walking and leave them again to the Dementors, and hearing their screams to stay. The in-story Aesop is that Azkaban is simply evil, and afterwards Harry concludes that because the nominally democratic magical government allows Azkaban to exist and in fact runs it, he is under no obligation to obey the wishes of the majority.
• We Are Nothing, a crossover between Harry Potter and A Nightmare on Elm Street by Ruskbyte. While the murders featured in the story are par for the course for Freddy Krueger...geezus. When someone is able to make you feel sorry for Umbridge or cringe at Big Bad Voldemort getting curbstomped to death, you know that evil has just been turned up to eleven.
• In Core Threads, the horcrux in Harry Potter is shown to have been influencing the Dursleys. Unlike the usual Fandom-Specific Plot, it doesn't make them more violent, not directly. Instead, it leaves them feeling like there's a horrific monster in the shape of a small child inside their house. Before Harry destroyed it, Vernon would sometimes black out and see horrible red eyes and hear Voldemort's laughter and when he came to, he'd see Harry's beaten form at his feat. Likewise, the Dursleys not only had constant nightmares, but Vernon likened sleep to knowing there was a monster sitting in the corner watching him and waiting for him to open his eyes. Vernon stayed home as often as possible (cutting ties with many friends and giving up his hobbies) because he refused to leave that thing alone with his family.
• Evil Be Thou My Good, a crossover between Harry Potter and Hellraiser. While the story is very well-written and absolutely terrifying, here are some choice moments:
  • The off-screen seizing of the Dursleys. This is also a Moment of Awesome for everyone (read: the entire fandom) who wanted these characters to get their just deserts. The same goes for Fudge and Umbridge at the end.
  • The entire scene in the Great Hall. Voldemort orders Harry to open the Lament Configuration for him. If you've ever seen a Hellraiser film, you know what happens next.
  • Harry's own disturbing nature throughout the whole thing. After opening the Configuration as a boy and causing the death of the Dursleys, he ends up... well, different. His obsession with rebuilding the box, his Briar Patching to get Voldemort to call upon Pinhead and company, and especially the steps he's willing to take, including allowing Ron and Hermione to get hit by the Cruciatus Curse to reach the above, show how warped he's become.
• There's a sequel which is even more disturbing, All Problems Solved, due to the constant undertone of dread that permeates it. Draco wakes up at St Mungo's with a hole in his memory and slowly begins to realize that something has happened to his wife Pansy Parkinson and most of his associates. As he tries to fill in the gaps in his memory, it's pure Paranoia Fuel to spice things up. The worst part is what's become of Harry and the puzzle box: Harry runs a successful company that creates things based on the magical theory behind the box. As for the box itself, he keeps it at company headquarters, behind security that's laughable, despite the numerous attempts to steal it. He and his circle even had a bet going on how long it would be before Draco came for the box.
• The Never Never Land A Harry Potter fanfic where McGonagall takes in the grand-daughter of an old friend. It turns out the grandmother had possibly gone mad and created a series of potions to freeze the girl at ten. It's implied that the girl has also been kept locked up in the house for years with only granny and a house elf for company and was probably abused emotionally as well. Also, the kid is one Creepy Child. She talks like a robot and needs precise directions. When the grandmother kicked it, she spent about four days in the house with the dead body, going about her business. The author promises Body Horror in later chapters.
• In Broken Chains after getting abducted by Sith Lords, Harry is paralyzed and Forced to Watch as they dissect Sirius right in front of him.
• Several from Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin.
  • At one point, to force Ron's compliance, the Diary causes the arachnophobic boy to hallucinate a swarm of spiders crawling up his throat and and out his mouth until Ron gives in. Later, while possessing Ron outright, the Diary gets him out of the way by trapping him in a nightmare about being buried alive in a coffin full of spiders.
  • Luna Lovegood's memory of her mother dying after casting the Imago Dei is terrifying enough, but when Harry and his friends quickly exit the memory, the spell tries to follow them out!
  • Nearly every scene in Year 3 involving that Dementor.
  • The Hogsmeade Attack arc includes Peter using a spell from the Anathema Codex to target Theo and several others with sentient Fiendfyre that gleefully promises to burn them slowly.
  • Several hit wizards who badly underestimate Peter Pettigrew are caught by one of the Toymaker's devices and cursed to permanent laughter. Months later, they're all in St. Mungo's still laughing hysterically and would have starved to death but for magical life support.
  • Peter's escape from the Ministry HQ involves him unleashing a plague of magical replicating rats.
  • Year 4 begins with a harrowing scene (at Euro Disneyland, of all places!) in which a mob of Muggles under the influence of Harry's scar attack him and try to throw him onto the tracks ahead of an oncoming rollercoaster, all the while madly chanting "Kill the Freak!" in French.

Hazbin Hotel

• Mistakes: Adam claims he’s never made a mistake in his life, but an unknown voice in red text reminds him that’s not true. “It may have been long ago. But you remember it all. The two sons you FAILED.” Followed by a bloody and graphic panel of a weeping Cain after he bashed Abel’s head in with a rock.
• My Precious Angel: Angel Dust is feeling down about something, and Husk tries to cheer him up by listing everything he loves about him. They share a tender kiss...but Husk starts to cough violently, as pink tendrils of smoke start surrounding them. Angel suddenly stands up, wreathed in more pink smoke as his eyes turn into hypnotic pink rings with visible tears in them, and a pair of clawed hands can be seen clasping around his chest.
  Valentino, speaking through Angel: (laughing evilly) Oh, Husk...he may be many things...but he was never yours.

Heathers

• Many YouTube users have created animatics for the various songs from the musical adaptation. They have excellent animation, but some of them can be terrifying in ways that can't be expressed by any stage production.
• MissyAsylum's animatics are full of them.
  • "Our Love is God":
    • The last minute or so after Kurt and Ram die is sheer Nightmare Fuel. J.D. looks entirely deranged as he holds Veronica, complete with Slasher Smile, Red Eyes, Take Warning, and dark, skeletal hands. He embraces a sobbing, traumatized Veronica, with the scene flashing between their real forms and one that depicts him as a bloody specter drowning out Veronica's light. His blood red color starts to seep onto her hands and wrap around her like a spiderweb until she's entirely red, and looks like she's screaming in agony with Tears of Blood running down her face, and she looks absolutely desperate and broken as she sings the last lines with him.
    • On the last note, there are fast flashes of the puddle of blood from the murders, of the discarded gun, of blood dripping from the leaves of a flower, and then a lovely image of the bodies of Kurt, Ram, and Heather Chandler wrapped in a bloody spiderweb stretching out from Veronica and J.D..
  • "Lifeboat":
    • Heather McNamara imagines herself in a lifeboat out at sea surrounded by faceless students, with black ghosts (representing the dead students) reaching out of the water, silently wailing in agony.
    • One of the more low-key terrifying moments is when Veronica moves towards McNamara, likely to comfort her, but is stopped by Ms. Fleming. It shows that she really does not care about her students' well-being and is just using their suffering to prop herself up. Made all the more clear as Ms. Fleming is later shown to be smiling as McNamara continues to break down.
    • As she looks at Heather Duke, the other girl gives her a hateful Death Glare, before turning into an eerie silhouette outlined in red with a Slasher Smile, lashing out at her with clawed hands.
    • During the line, "Everyone's pushing, everyone's fighting!" a giant wave looms over the tiny lifeboat, and the other students, now also red silhouettes, violently shove Heather McNamara down into the black water.
    • More sad than scary, but at the end of the animatic, a black silhouette resembling McNamara herself emerges from the water and faces her, with tears running down its face. As she takes its outstretched hand, it smiles before shifting to red for a split second, then back to black. Heather allows it to pull her down into the black water, as the other students gently push her down to her watery grave.
  • "Yo Girl":
    • Throughout the video, Veronica is surrounded by the ghosts of Heather Chandler, Kurt, and Ram, each sporting Eyeless Faces and red Slasher Smiles as they taunt her about Martha's suicide attempt.
    • This entire sequence:
      Ghosts: Guess who's right down the block? (Veronica looks terrified as she sees J.D. suddenly appear in the window)
      Veronica's Mom: Your problems seem like life and death!
      Ghosts: Guess who's climbing the stairs? (Heather Chandler looms over Veronica's shoulder)
      Veronica's Mom: I promise they're not!
      Ghosts: Guess who's picking your lock? (Heather Chandler points a taunting finger at Veronica)
      Veronica: (to her concerned parents) You don't know what my world looks like!
      Ghosts: (wrapping a noose around Veronica's neck) Time's up! GO SAY YOUR PRAYERS!
    • Veronica flees up the stairs with the ghosts trailing behind her, blood dripping from their mouths. When she opens her bedroom door, she falls into an empty black void. The ghosts, now red, swirl around her as Veronica pulls the imaginary noose tight around her neck, a second before J.D. appears right behind her, ominously saying "Knock knock." Though the end of the animatic has a bit of Nightmare Retardant with J.D.'s goofy face after Veronica pushes him out of her bedroom.
• scribs's "Shine a Light (Reprise)" animatic:
  • As Heather McNamara is trying to commit suicide in the bathroom, she is taunted by hallucinations of the other students and of Heather Duke, represented by a black silhouette with a horrifically exaggerated face that consists of a single glowing red eye and a HUGE Slasher Smile. she reaches out and grabs Heather McNamara by the throat, choking her with her bare hands.
• Elemental FA’s "Our Love is God" animatic:
  • The scene and audio of JD chasing Kurt after Ram is shot is completely cut out. When Ram is shot, the scene switches to a black background with white (and red) outlines, and the audio is replaced with the sound of a heart beating as Kurt looks down in shock at the sight of his best friend (and in the case of this animatic, lover) dead. The heartbeat turns into deafening silence once he’s face to face with JD, pointing a gun at him. *BANG*
  • During the moment afterward where JD sings to Veronica, her expression goes from tearful anger at what he’s done, to shock, to fear. And as he repeatedly sings “Our Love is God”, he looks at her with an almost deranged look, his pupils in the shape of red hearts. Never have Wingding Eyes looked so terrifying...

Hetalia: Axis Powers

• Awakening has Canada and America being taken as prisoners of war by the Germans. They are then sent to Auschwitz and experimented on by Dr. Mengele. Canada has blue dye injected into his eyes, while America is dissected alive and infected with tuberculosis and typhus.
• The Weakest Link has Forced to Watch to ensure maximum Nightmare Fuel. Four of the youngest nations; Iceland, Latvia, Estonia, and Sealand; are kidnapped by a villain who sends America, Sweden, England, Lithuania, and Russia videos of the children being tortured. Scenes include Latvia's vivesection and Estonia being set on fire to make sure you can't sleep.
• Seven Little Killers, a Hetalia: Axis Powers fic in which... well, everybody dies. It starts when Switzerland is murdered, and Italy walks in on his dead body. Everybody blames one another, and at first it's all just he-said she-said and pointing fingers, but then the bloodbath starts. The fic is based around the idea that there are seven killers on the loose, each named after the color of the mask they wear, lead by the infamous, shadowy Black and trying to kill off enough nations to completely reform the world order. Japan, Italy, and Germany are the ones on the hunt for the truth. Some of the nightmarish highlights are America masquerading as Canada masquerading as America killing several characters and crushing Japan's fingers as payment for letting his other captives- including Canada-as-America-as-Canada- free, China murdering New Russia on the orders of the killer Yellow and then going bonkers over it, several cities being completely decimated to weaken their nations, America manipulating Canada into killing a boatload of people, including Alaska and Hawai'i- whose death scenes are both cut right away from, although Hawai'i's is over Facebook, for crying out loud- and... well... the entire thing really.
• The comic version of the Hetalia: Axis Powers AU fic The First Cut: Or, The Angels of the Rye takes the implied horror of what the protagonist witnessed and shows it to the reader/viewer, showing aptly just why the titular first cut was hidden away. Namely the haunting images of Poland and Lithuania, who were last reported killed during the Terror several decades before the story, staring right at you, pleading for help. Also, the protagonist is their grandson.
• This Hetalia: Axis Powers fic tells about five times in history that France died. Four of them (the Black Plague, the Battle of Hastings, the American Revolution, and the German invasion of France in World War II) were frightening enough, but the worst was the French Revolution, which tells how France was beheaded in front of his own people, was still conscious some time after, and finally awoke to represent France as a republic.

Homestuck

• Volume 7 of the Homestuck Album has various indescribably awesome songs, but there are some that just make it their job to be creepy as hell.
  • The Carnival: Honking in the tune of Harlequin.
  • Havoc to be Wrought: The whole track gives off a sense of foreboding, but definitely nothing scary... until the last 30 seconds, where we get the lovely sound of something from the bowels of hell itself screeching in agony into a broken microphone. ^note It's a barn owl screeching with effects added on.
    • If you listen closely, it actually sounds like someone choking or screaming. We could have been hearing the demise of the Sufferer or Equius being strangled to death.
• Volume 8 gives us Frog Forager. Initially, this seems ridiculous, with the seemingly adorable artwork and with the song at first just sounding like some peaceful music from EarthBound. Then around twenty seconds in, an eerie, high-pitched, off-kilter sound starts playing in the background and persists throughout the song, and eventually the EarthBound-iness just stops and the song is just those sinister sounds before returning to normal for the ending. And the artwork? Take a closer look. See anything wrong with it? The song and artwork both seem happy but have that subtle malevolence that makes it incredibly frightening.
• If you want to get into the scary shit going on in the albums, give Red Sucker from Cherubim a listen. The odd crying noises that come up in it make it sound as though Caliborn is beating some cute little creature to death during the track. Euch.
  • And Fridge Horror makes it worse! Remember what Lord English is allegedly doing to the Horrorterrors, who look like cute little creatures to us?
• The last two tracks on "The Wanderers." "What A Daring Dream" has eerie whispering voices that seem to be quoting the Morse code from WV's nightmare and "Nightmare"...well, it's called "Nightmare" for a reason.
• "The Felt" brings us "English", the theme of, well, Lord English. It starts off with a slow, almost sad piano section, which serves as a prelude to the main section. At around 0:40, a tense buildup starts while the piano section keeps going. Around the 0:50 mark, a harpsichord tune starts playing, with a warning feeling, letting the listener know that something is wrong. At around 1:07, another buildup starts, this time with an almost triumphant feeling, before transitioning smoothly into the main song. Here we have a tense bassline played on piano, with the melody played on piano for a bit. It then goes into a section where the melody is played backwards, and from there, it gets intense. This is where you really know the shit's finally been plain wrecked by the fan.
• Homestuck is a very bloody comic, but the effect is less shocking, as most of the blood is technicolor. Some people have edited some of the troll's bloodier panels red, and the results◊ are not◊ pretty◊.
• Heinoustuck. Basically, it takes place in a world where kids have to go through a rite of passage known as "transmutation" when they turn thirteen, a process that mutates them horribly, is implied to be painful, renders people immortal, takes four days to complete and, in Rose and Jade's cases alters their personalities. The results we see include Dave having been changed into a grotesque human/crow hybrid, with a beaked face like a plague doctor mask and a katana through his abdomen (think Davesprite), Rose being given long tentacles for arms and a stitched on Cheshire Cat Grin, and Jade being fused with Bec turning her into a radioactive Multi-Armed and Dangerous Reality Warper who has become quite emotionally imbalanced after gaining omnipotence. John is, understandably, terrified of it happening to him and avoids his dad throughout the story to make sure it doesn't happen (and speaking of his dad...) but the handy manual shows us that it's inevitable.
  • Vriska's appearance does not look like one that would be appreciated by people who are afraid of spiders.
  • And now we get to see what Mom Lalonde (and by extension, Roxy) looks like. Mother of God...
  • The rest of the trolls (and the post-scratch kids)◊ are no better: Sollux's body has been ripped in half down the middle and crudely stitched back together (not to mention the two heads, with one eye each), Kanaya has insect-like fangs and six insectoid legs like her mother grub lusus, Tavros' jousting lance has been impaled through his chest, Dirk's jaw is hinged like Lil Cal's, Feferi is an eldritch horror with dozens of tentacles sprouting from her head and too many eyes, Jane's fork is sticking out of her head (with a bit of brain on the end), Jake's helmet IS his head, etc., etc., etc. Oh, and absolutely everyone is dripping with blood and covered with stitches. Yeesh.
  • Word of God has stated that transmutation is not painful. However, agitating the wounds is. Not that that helps much.
  • Rose's fate in particular becomes a nice bit of Fridge Horror considering what happened to pre-recton Rose. Cheshire Cat Grin? Check. Cat ears and a hat? Check. Tendrils? Check, albeit in different places. The most disturbing part however might be that her personality is altered in a similar way, becoming more cheery with occasional cat smiles, which is cute... until you think too much about what she's actually saying.
• Remember when Calsprite was laughing his ass off at Dave near the middle of Act 4? Well, the good folks over at Let's Read Homestuck replicated this using - are you ready? A mixture of Heaven Smile from Killer 7, Laugh from the beginning of Feel Good Inc., Gruntilda from Banjo Kazooie, Tidus from Final Fantasy X, Woody the Woodpecker, Joker (Hamill), Joker (Ledger), Joker (Romero), Joker (Nicholson) or the laughing box at the end of '89 batman, Mandark from Dexter's Lab, Jack Spicer from Xiaolin Showdown, and Kefka from Final Fantasy VI. Oh, and as if that wasn't enough, they then looped it for a whole hour. Good luck sleeping tonight.
  • Speaking of "Let's Read Homestuck", Scratch's "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO KILL HER!" line is even scarier there, with his Voice of the Legion and how uncharacteristically angry he sounds. And by "angry", we mean "enraged".
  • Their version of his "S u c k e r s" line isn't much better; it echoes.
  • Scratch is also aware of the medium and the change of medium. Think about what that implies...
  • Another one from Let's Read Homestuck is the reveal of Lord English. While the above line of Doc Scratch's is frightening, but not his normal voice, English sounds downright (yet understandably) hellish, with this cacophony (skip to 46:36) being his normal voice. Thank GOD he doesn't talk much...
  • Sober!Gamzee's murderous rant is even worse when voiced, especially the part about the slime. You can hear the pure rage and loathing in his voice. Given that he sounded like a stoned idiot before this, it's utterly terrifying to hear him start screaming and whispering.
• One of the Ask Nepetas that Master Yorgi had voiced was a question regarding Nepeta's opinion of dogs. She starts saying "Well, they're ok-", but suddenly remembers the destruction of Derse. Screaming, crying, growling, and demonic music combine into a terrifying entry in an otherwise light-hearted series.
  • For Halloween, Master Yorgi made this. Enjoy. If you're too scared to click, it's Gamzee just after he ripped the trolls' heads off, rambling to himself, hearing the trolls' voices in his head, crying and begging him not to kill them while simultaneously hearing both his own voice and Lil' Cal's urging him to kill them and Cal cackling insanely in the background. To make matters worse, Gamzee repeatedly flips between a relatively normal look and a nasty, Zalgo-like look, and it culminates in him singing "Bicycle Built for Two" to Tavros' severed head. Tavros' last line is humorous, but still... Can double as Tear Jerker when the viewer is attached to the characters.
    • Similarly, this Ask Gamzee video has someone ask the question of whether Gamzee would ever kill all his friends or not. Gamzee says with a sad expression that he would never and that it's not cool... while the screen flickers between regular stoned Gamzee and a nightmarish sober Gamzee accompanied with screams.
  • And just for a bit more Nepeta, definitely this.
  • Octo's Homestuck Alarm Clocks has a lot of hilarity...and then Lil' Cal appears.
  Cal: AHH HAA HAA HAA HEE HEE HEE HOO HOO HOO! It's time to wake up! You'd better get up! Or else.
• A tumblr theory on what happens to the God Tier players left behind failed sessions. Also can double as a Tear Jerker.
• The Kink Meme fill Reprise managed to upset its requester, who had specifically wanted Torture Porn, to the point that she's now co-writing its spinoff Hivefled, which has the potential for a happy ending, but is putting everyone through the wringer on the way.
• Contract, Feferi?
• The 'Homestuck The Musical' fan project, though not complete, has Welcome to the Dark Carnival, a Villain Song for Gamzee sung in the tune of the aforementioned Carnival song.
• This MSPARP showing an encounter between Dualscar and the Handmaid. Especially when the Handmaid bursts into maniacal laughter near the end.
• The fanmade Oh Hi There, Lil Cal would not sound out of place in a horror film. Considering its subject...
  • It also fits surprisingly well with the MSPA Reader: Mental Breakdown flash, being about the same length, though this is most likely just a coincidence.
• This comic takes the interpretation that Bro was messed up because of Lil' Cal's influence and runs with it. The result is horrifying.
• HELP US.
• This comic, where Nepeta was the one who went crazy on the meteor, and murders everyone, even Equius! It's also been dubbed. Thrice.
• GUESS AGAIN MOTHERFUCKERS.
• While this flash animation of the trolls' battle against the Black King is mostly awesome and hilarious, it has its nightmarish moments.
  • Terezi scaling up the Black King and impaling the large eye of one of his heads with her cane, causing it to be covered with blood as a result.
  • At one point in the battle, Terezi throws one of Gamzee's slime pie conntainers at the back of his head, causing his expression to change to a deranged Slasher Smile and furiously leap towards one of the Black King's heads while brandishing his clubs. The Black King seems to scream as images including sober Gamzee, Karkat's fearful expression from [S] All Behold the Glory of Zillyhoo, and Lil Cal flash across the screen and it briefly cuts out as we hear the sound of thunder. When it comes back, Gamzee is back to normal as Karkat stares at him in shock while blood rains down from the sky, and we see that Gamzee absolutely obliterated one of the King's heads. When Karkat said Gamzee dealt the most damage in a single blow out of the whole group, he meant it.
• This extension of Eternity Served Cold manages to be creepy due to a little "easter egg" thrown in - The artwork for the video features Calliope and Caliborn. Caliborn looks a tad creepy with the blood on his fangs and spirals in his eyes, but it's not too frightening. Then around the 12 minute mark, the artwork begins to fade as static sounds interrupt the song, and the artwork fades completely as the laugh from The Lordling plays. The artwork comes back... except now Caliborn is in the center, alone, and staring at the viewer.
  • Made far worse for those familiar with Undertale, due to the laugh being the same as a certain flower's.
• While this fic was mostly just Tear Jerker, it describes (in thankfully not too much detail) Sollux's death. His powers painfully burn him away from the inside out.
• This Tumblr post, a set of gifs containing messages from the trolls and kids, who have somehow been transformed into horrorterrors, implied to be the result of a deal Rose made with them gone horribly wrong. Each one features a squiddle icon in a troll's or kid's color, with the character alternating between declaring how happy they are in their new form and screaming in agony while begging to be saved.
  Karkat: I FEEL SO GOOD / I'M NOT MAD ANYMORE / I CAN'T I CAN'T / FUCK FUCK HELP
  Kanaya: Please Join Me I Am Doing Quite Well / Please Save Yourselves / I Am Dying
  Terezi: 1 LOV3 TH1S!!! / H3H3H3H3 WH4T FUN / NO NO PLE4S3
  Vriska: This is gr8!!!!!!!! / I have all the 8uddies. All of theeeeeeeem! / please aaaaaaaanyone / H8LP ME!!!!!!!!
  Gamzee: ThIs DrEaMs ThE bEsT / HoNk HoNk :o) / iTs FuCkIn LoVeLy HeRe / oH fUcK oH fUcK / pLeAsE mAkE iT sToP / PLEASE MAN PLEASE
  Eridan: im feelin just fine / im not pathetic noww / im havvin lots a fun / HELP ME
  Rose: It's better than I imagined. / The Old Ones love me. / They love us all very much. / MY FAULT MY FAULT / PLEASE FORGIVE ME / PLEASE!!!
  • Among the trolls, poor Feferi's is probably the worst...
  Feferi: I was so scared at first / )(ow was I so silly? / I'm with mom now 38) / W)(Y MOM?? / YOU'R-E MY LUSUS
  • John isn't even flipping between happy and terrified. His message consists of him screaming in horror and begging the horrorterrors(?) to spare his friends and kill him instead.
    John: i / i can't / please just stop / oh god!!! PLEASE!!! / LET ME GO / OH GOD NO / LET MY FRIENDS GO / HURT ME INSTEAD / KILL ME INSTEAD / I DIDN'T WANT THIS
  • It doesn't even end at the main characters; Jade's message implies that EVERYONE was turned into a horrorterror.
    Jade: everyone's here!! even grampa and bec!!
  • Another blogger reblogged the gifset and explained its backstory, which makes it all the more horrifying—apparently, the gifs were made in response to earlier mentions of the dreambubbles. At the time, dreambubbles had only been vaguely alluded to by the comic, so the artist considered the possibility that maybe they weren't as pleasant as they sounded, especially since they were made by the Gods of the Furthest Ring. The end result was them portraying the dreambubbles as a sort of illusory paradise where everyone is perpetually Mind Raped whilst falsely believing that they're being given everything they want in the afterlife. This is why, for example, Dave's says "i cant wake up" and why John (who was God-Tier and thus functionally immortal at the time) was unaffected.
• From the unofficial album Homestuck for the Holidays, the song "The Squiddles Save Christmas" is mostly adorable and silly, until Nog Baby sics the Squiddles on the robotic Skipper Plumbthroat to stop him from ruining Christmas. One Squiddle declares, "There he is! Let's attack him with a tickle fight!" followed by about 15 seconds of distorted screeching.

The Hunger Games

• In The Funeral Rites of Tributes, every year after the Hunger Games, each district has their way of honoring their dead tributes when they're brought home...except District 1, who considers their tributes failures if they die. Their corpses are thrown into a pit and left to decay. The whole district can smell them rotting on hot summer days, "a reminder of the choice between what you had to do in the Arena, and what you could allow done to you."

Invader Zim

• An fanfic called Dark Harvest by Swing-21. Even the name screams Nightmare Fuel. It's rated M for a very, very good reason. Starts out creepy, ends up with a horrifying Twist Ending... of Dib actually kidnapping Sara, and the poor reader learns that HE is the one that is stealing organs to keep Zim alive, who had apparently lost his own. Zim isn't stealing organs this time... ALSO, the mental image of Keef, loyal to Zim and... ahem... "donating" his organs, covered in blood and stitches gives the chills. Darker and Edgier, anyone?
• Possessed, an Invader Zim fanfic where Dib is captured by the Irkens at the same time that Zim and GIR are captured by Professor Membrane. Dib is brainwashed into blieving he is an Irken invader named "Bid," while Membrane and his team of scientists kill GIR offscreen and perform horrific experiments on Zim, eventually CUTTING OUT PARTS OF HIS BRAIN to make him more tame and completely forget who he is, reducing him to a shadow of his former self with the naive personality of a young child.
• Euphemism of Love is the rare Invader Zim fanfic that doesn't derive its horror from anything supernatural or extraterrestrial. It's about Gaz and all the ways she physically abuses Dib (shoving him down the stairs, breaking his kneecaps and worse), and because she's younger and a girl, nobody lifts a finger to stop her. This keeps on going and going throughout their lives, until he gets a transmission from his mom, who was abducted by aliens when he and Gaz were three, telling him that the abuse is his sister's way of showing love.
  You're all she has left. You have to take care of her.
  
  She loves you.
  
  Love her back, love her more. Love your sister; take care of your sister. She's helpless without you. She needs you to protect her. She's lashing out because she's traumatised over the death of your mother. You must support her; you must give her the affection she craves.
  
  Don't you love your sister? She loves you, more than you love her. She expresses her love in different ways. You don't hit your sister, you love your sister. Love her more, be a better brother. Hitting girls is bad. Talk to your sister; hug your sister. Give her more affection than she gives you, Dib.
  
  Dib?
  
  Are you listening, Dib?
  
  Dib?
  
  Dib was eleven and two hundred fifty-five days when he took the kitchen knife and loved his sister more than she loved him.
  
  Dib was eleven and two hundred fifty-five days when he loved his sister to death.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

• Not His World, a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fanfic, has Dio resurrect Jonathan as a vampire using the same method he used to revive himself... and it's played for horror, especially with the Wham Line at the end of the fic:
  Frozen in time, Jonathan Joestar stares horrified at the star shaped birthmark at the back of his neck.
• There exists a short comic from Jolyne's point of view. It starts off adorable, and quickly descends into creepy when she starts to talk about a friend only she can see. Hint: it is not her stand.
  My name is Jolyne Cujoh
  Mama call me JoJo
  I love Mama
  I like K too
  K is shy
  Only I can see him
  [a crudely drawn picture of Kakyoin with his eyes seemingly gouged out and his torso bleeding out]
  • Is it any wonder that Jotaro is scared to death, with his eyes open wide upon discovering Jolyne's drawing? Kakyoin was his friend and a fellow Crusader, and he was brutally killed by DIO via the World punching a hole in his abdomen. And then the actual Kakyoin's corpse appears, with the same black eyes and what appears to be a Glasgow Grin on his face, seemingly trying to shush Jolyne.
  • Now animated in SFM!
• 8-bit and 16-bit renditions of "Traitor's Requiem"? Cool. But, about 2.5 minutes in, an atonal, distorted version of Diavolo's theme cuts in, accompanied by an image of King Crimson with a human skin tone staring at the viewer!
• The Diavolo Bad End Week series, featuring multiple scenarios in which the members of Bucciarati's team fail to save Trish from her father and all of them meet horrific fates. Underground features La Squadra suffering the same tortures as the one Diavolo inflicted on his mother, Roses to Ashes has Trish being forced to watch Bucciarati's team being burned alive before the same happens to her, and Flesh, Bones || Skin, Soul has Diavolo transforming an unwilling Fugo into a cannibalistic monster.
• From the same author as Diavolo Bad End Week comes No Fun, in which Doppio falls in love with Narancia and kidnaps him to save him from being killed by the Boss. The first problem is that Narancia obviously doesn't want to be there. The second is that every time he rebels or lashes out with his Stand, Diavolo mutilates him as a form of punishment and as a way of rendering him immobile. By Chapter 5, Narancia has lost both hands, both feet and one eye. Yikes. Even though the story was left abandoned, the writer revealed their original plans to have Giorno eventually rescue the two at the end after beating Diavolo, at least having their suffering eventually pay off.
  • In Chapter 7, Narancia complains to Doppio about the sound of rats scratching and scurrying underneath his bedroom floor and keeping him awake at night. Later, Doppio holds a small birthday celebration for Narancia and gives him a "present": Fugo, who is being held captive under the floorboards with his mouth stitched shut, just as Diavolo did to his mother long ago.
  • From a certain point of view, the scariest part of the whole thing might be Doppio's Ambiguous Innocence. He seems to genuinely care for Narancia to some degree and want to make him happy, yet doesn't see anything wrong with mutilating or even raping him, and treats him like a naughty child who needs to be punished when he misbehaves. He also doesn't seem to understand why Narancia would be horrified at realizing Fugo has been locked under the floorboards and starved for days.
• One comic by ChloesImagination recreates the events of when Kira killed Reimi and her family. The unease begins when Rohan, who is staying with Reimi's family that weekend, saying he saw a ghost out. Reimi reassures him that they'll be fine with Arnold the dog downstairs and her family in the next room. But before she can fall asleep she hears dripping downstairs. Thinking her mom might be in the kitchen, Reimi heads down... only to find Arnold sliced at the neck and his corpse dangling from a coat rack. She rushes to parents room and finds Kira, sitting over her parents corpse with wide deranged eyes.
• Toys in the Attic describes Narancia becoming a sadistic Torture Technician for Passione who revels in interrogating prisoners. For those more accustomed to the usual fanon portrayal of him as an innocent, childlike character, it's an unsettling reminder of how Cute and Psycho he can be when given the chance.
  They're toys, toys, toys and it’s all a game.
  
  They're tools for Narancia the working man.
  
  They're brushes for Narancia the painter.
  
  They're instruments for Narancia the musician.
  
  They're toys for Narancia, the child of the mafia.
• In Fate is truly a Cruel Mistress: Remake, after Diavola gets the Requiem Arrow and wins, she summons all the members of Passione to a private event at the largest theatre in Italy. What they see is a gruesome display featuring the mangled corpses of Team Bucciarati and La Squadra as a warning to those who defy her. Just to rub it in, she gives Fugo a front-row seat to the horror to show him what became of his comrades.
• In Pushing Your Luck, Melone tries using Baby Face on a bad-tempered, drug-addicted prostitute to see what will happen For Science! The resulting Junior is in terrible pain from the moment of its birth, is filled with hatred toward its mother, and grows into a malformed, homicidal, Ax-Crazy beast that tears apart both her and the target like they're made of rice paper. Then, right before it attacks Melone with the intent of becoming a Self-Made Orphan, he sees three words appear on the screen: "I SEE YOU."
• Kira's new family: This Gender Flip fic does this through dread from Yoshikage Kira. It starts with him searching for a woman to kill for her hands and runs into Higashikata Tomoko, planning to perform his usual killing with Killer Queen. However, he ends up getting enamored by her hospitality as gratitude for helping her with his groceries and takes an interest that her daughter Josuko also has a Stand like him. It's enough that he decides that they might be the missing piece in his life... which through his twisted eyes means killing Tomoko and taking her remaining hand as his wife, then taking Josuko home with him to raise her as part of his new obsession.

Let Me In

• A Cold Winters Night features two vampire attacks from the victim's perspectives, with the second one overlapping with elements of a tearjerker.
  The smell was overwhelming now, and it was the smell of dead things and graves and her mother's blood. The monster loomed over her. It was so close now, so terribly, horribly close.
  Emma's scream died in her throat.

Miraculous Ladybug

• The Karma of Lies:
  • The premise of the fic is that Adrien suffers from all the Laser-Guided Karma that was originally aimed at Lila, thanks to his insistence on shielding her from the consequences of her actions. By the climax, he finds himself Hated by All, Convicted by Public Opinion of being an accessory to his terrorist father, having lost his Miraculous, his freedom, his friends, and everything he cared about.
  • Word of God makes this worse: this fate would have originally befallen Lila or Marinette, depending on which of them won the conflict between them. Meaning that Marinette could have suffered the same consequences, through no real fault of her own, thanks in no small part to her partner's Skewed Priorities and insistence on protecting a Con Artist and letting her scam their friends.
• The Miraculous Ladybug fanfic Lila and the Anger Management Class has a few, mostly centered around Lila...And just how twisted she is, even when trying to do good deeds:
  • When Chloe threatens her using the fact she's the daughter of the mayor of Paris, Lila shows she was recording the conversation, reminds her she's the daughter of two high-level foreign diplomats, and wonders what would happen if a foreign power were to give the French government evidence the mayor of the capital is abusing his power to spoil his daughter... Or, in other words, threatens to ruin the political career of Chloe's father if she doesn't stop using her father's position to get away with everything.
  • Lila is later seen talking to Chloe, and admits to Adrien she's basically blackmailing her into being nice... By threatening to ruin Chloe's friendship with Adrien. And she admits it after proving she could have. Her only saving grace is that she plans to admit to Chloe it's a bluff after she had a few days to realize that Good Feels Good and told Adrien about it to make herself unable to do so...
  • Apparently, Marinette and Adrien used to have nightmares about Volpina, Lila's Superpowered Evil Side created by Hawk Moth, even if they are the heroes who defeated her... And after the above incident they fully expect them to resume.
  • The fic is named after the anger management class that Gabriel Agreste, upon realizing her temper, offered her because, in Lila's own words, he fears her to snap and turn into a junior high school shooter, even if she says that would never happen... Because all the guns in the Italian embassy (where she lives) are under heavy guard. Good thing she accepted those classes...
  • Lila's rant in Italian about why she never got those classes before, in which she calls her father a "sperm donor" and her mother an "incubator" and details how she's going to scam them into letting her go to the anger management classes, hints at her being the victim of severe parental abuse. Marinette, who understands Italian thanks to her grandmother, is obviously unsettled...
• The Long May She Reign series is a very long one, for a simple reason: Marinette's being evil the whole time, playing the hero role because it would keep Tikki from suspecting her true nature while she looked for the Butterfly to start on greater plans. And then she succeeds... And recruits Lila, who is so fascinated with Marinette's true character that she falls for her... And turns into a Yandere.
• Putting on the New Self is a slow-burn horror taking place after Marinette and Adrien defeated Hawk Moth and started dating. Throughout the story, Adrien often gets better for Marinette's benefit, from removing a human that she found annoying during a stressful project to not needing any sleep so he can take care of their daughter Emma while she gets rest. It's not until the end that Marinette and the audience find out the truth: that Adrien has been using the Peacock Miraculous and his Amok to "fix" himself for her.
  • When a horrified Marinette ask how does it not kill him, he happily answers that it does, but he fixed himself.
  • The reason for Adrien's behavior? As a Sentimonster, he was created by his mother to be the perfect child for her to dote on. And now with Emilie dead and his father arrested, he will make himself the perfect husband and father for his family, no matter the cost.
• Marinette getting akumatized into Seamstress in Tender Words for one big reason: she isn't in control of herself. Because she refused Hawkmoth's offer, he took control of her, complete with sewing her mouth shut. Thankfully, she is freed from it. However, unlike the other victims of Akumas, she remembered everything.
• The Miraculous Ladybug/Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover What the Cat Dragged In offers many:
  • A superhero willing to use lethal force going against an Akuma victim without knowing they're possessed and can be cured. Good thing Adrien warned Tony before he blasted the first Akuma victim he met...
  • The effect Akumatizations could have had on Paris had not the mayor not clamped down on the news.
  • Speaking of the mayor, can you imagine what he thought when Nick Fury showed up in a setting full of Meaningful Names and with a supervillain capable of corrupting anyone into a supervillain from moments of emotional weakness? It was Played for Laughs, but Andrè Bourgeois all but dragged Nick out of the city limits and started stonewalling SHIELD because he was terrified.
  • Clint is scared when he enters Adrien's room... Because there's no mats under his climbing wall. The fact Adrien is not injured in the least doesn't calm him down.
  • The powers of the various Akuma victims are reviewed, and they're obviously as scary as in the show. Then there's the Puppeteer, whose power to turn anyone into a minion by enchanting their dolls is made much scarier when Tony pronounces three words: "Hulk action figures".
  • The theories on why Papillon targets Marinette and Adrien's school so often: he figured out they're keeping an eye there and is using the place as a trap, or that Alya's determination to find out Ladybug's secret could help him. And he may have had the idea from her revealing to the world she has a history book from that specific school.
  • The SHIELD's theory on Papillon's long-term plan to get the Miraculouses: ruin Ladybug and Chat Noir's civilian lives and cause them to become vulnerable to Akumatization. Then there's the question of what would happen if he Akumatized a serial murderer or a convicted inmate... Or the fact his habit of targeting whoever helped Ladybug against an Akuma means he may now aim to Akumatize Black Widow, Hawkeye or Iron Man.
    • And Papillon then does just that: when Fury orders the Avengers to pull out before they're targeted, Tony, who has started seeing through the glamour that keep Ladybug and Cat Noir's identities secret, gets angry because he wants to stay and clean up his own mess, and as soon as he leaves the room to try and calm down an Akuma swoops in.
  • The potential uses of Cataclysm are brought up. Good thing it's Cat Noir who has it... And not, say, someone willing to drop the Eiffel Tower on someone, as was once done by Ladybug.
• SorryJustAnotherPerson, the author of The Adventures Of Panthera Noire and There's More Magic Out There, took the notion of the Kwamis being born from the concepts of reality, then expands on that their show's apperances are the results of their Miraculous's giving them cute and comprehendable forms, but return to their true Eldritch Abomination state when the Miraculous is destroyed. Four of them are presented here, though beware of Body Horror.
  • Tikki, the Kwami of Creation, is a writhing mass of red fingers with numerous eyes all over, especially over her head. What's worse is that she's still calling out for Marinette, which makes for a jarring scene.
  • Plagg is the tamest even as the Kwami of Destruction, being a single floating mass of Catacylsm with a singular green eye.
  • Daizzi, the Kwami of Jubilation, is the Boar God from Princess Mononoke up to eleven, with multiple upper jaws stacked over each other and More Teeth than the Osmond Family in the lower jaw.
  • Fluff, the Kwami of Evolution, is a Humanoid Abomination rabbit woman wearing a white robe and having multiple sets of ears. Her face is devoid of fur, and her beady eyes are staring straight out of the picture.
• ''Occam's Razor'': Offers a sensible reason to how Lila always gets away with her lies. Lila, or more accurately, Lie-la, was an akuma planted in the school all along with Charm Person powers. While it doesn't dwell on the fact much, Marinette explicitly states that Hawkmoth had been deliberately underselling his powers and to a rather insane degree. What is dwelled on is how Vera had been employing More than Mind Control on the class and had been Brainwashed and Crazy herself for over half a year and, thanks to how her powers worked, nobody noticed. She doesn't remember anything about her time in Paris, from the schoolwork she did to the hell she put Marinette through, because she was akumatized not even a day into showing up. Even her own parents, who are implied to be around very little anyway, raised little to no questions to her suddenly changing her name and personality out of nowhere.
• Crimson and Noire reinvents Lila from a Consummate Liar that manipulates her classmates with obvious lies to a subtle but more harrowing False Friend that uses rather realistic means of manipulation to take hold of one of her female classmate. Lila takes up as much of the other girl's free time as she can, uses Passive-Aggressive Kombat on anyone else that wants to be with the girl, and is even speculated in-universe to want to have the girl for herself romantically. The most unsettling part? The girl in question is Marinette, who instead of being the most pro-active against Lila like in canon or in other fanfics is completely unaware of her true nature and sees Lila as a friendly if clingy transfer student.
• He Might Be a Keeper puts a disturbing spin on the "Sentimonster-Adrien" theory: Adrien is a sentimonster created by his mother Emilie to be her and Gabriel's child...but he wasn't the first one. You see, Emilie didn't just want a child of her own. She wanted the perfect child, one that was not inconvenient or rebellious or hard to take care of. So she used the Peacock Miraculous to create a sentimonster in the form of her ideal child, a little boy who she named Adrien, and if he was disobedient to her or talked back to her in any way, she killed him without hesitation. Then she created another Adrien in his place with the appearance and personality changes she wanted, repeating this cycle an unknown number of times until she and Gabriel finally had the perfect son. The story begins with her killing the latest one for getting upset over something and saying, “I hate you!” to her, later discussing the subject with her husband over dinner as casually as one might talk about the weather (while referring to the murder as a "discarding"). Gabriel’s only reaction is mild surprise because this Adrien lasted almost a year. The first words that Emilie says to the new Adrien, with the implication that this one is "our" Adrien, are the most chilling of all:
  Young Adrien: Are you my mother?
  Emilie: (embraces him lovingly) I am your mother, Adrien. And I love you. I love you more than anyone ever will. Remember that, won’t you?
  Young Adrien: I will.
  Emilie: Good. I don’t want you to ever disappoint me, Adrien. Otherwise, there will be...consequences. Do you understand?
  Young Adrien: I won’t, Mother.
  • When Gabriel asks how old the new Adrien will be, Emilie comments that she hates changing diapers...which implies she made, and killed, a baby or toddler sentimonster-Adrien at one point, possibly even as her first "attempt".
• At first, Two Letters, written by the same author of Karma of Lies above, seems like a standard Miraculous Deconstruction Fic, showing Marinette's reliability and goodwill being taken for granted and exploited, in addition to her being constantly held up to impossible standards, eventually getting tired of it and retiring, writing a letter to Luka so the one person she still cared about would know what had happened. However, throughout the story, we and Luka see Marinette show an uncharacteristic lack of care and even glee in the problems the new Ladybug is causing, especially considering it extends to all of Paris. In the last chapter, we find out via a letter Marinette has written to herself that she has completely fallen off the deep end from the pressures of being Ideal Hero and repressing her emotions. Becoming a borderline psychopath that associates helping others with suffering and hands over Tikki and the city in general to Lila Rossi of all people, knowing full well the amount of people that will suffer at her hand. All to ensure she doesn't have to deal with it anymore and can laugh at the fates of those she deemed betrayed her, which is everyone in Paris. It's basically a Saltinette fic Played for Horror.
  • The Sanity Slippage is very clear in the letter because she only uses the names of people's akumas in the letter, including her parents, mentally seeing everyone as the akuma they were except for Luka.
  • Also, she's become a Yandere for Luka and plans to make the Wish to turn Luka into a perfect, loving boyfriend should he ever fall out of love with her or-God help him-turn on her.

My Hero Academia

• Every Step of The Way has Aizawa caught by a villain with a touch that burns. The guy wants information and since Aizawa won’t talk, the villain burns out Aizawa’s eyes one at a time. He also has a cohort with some sort of ability to make Aizawa feel pressure inside his body, like something is going to explode out of him. Eesh. And for a little added fuel, read how the pressure villain is physically racked and left with bleeding ears from Mic’s Super-Scream delivered point blank. She kinda deserved it,though.
• Pulse and Void What Present Mic goes through is absolutely horrific. He’s kidnapped by a villain who can steal power from things like Mic’s screams. It’s the guy’s Torture Technician buddy Fusion who’s the absolute psychopath. Mic won’t scream easy but Fusion sure knows how to make it happen. He flogs Mic with a barbed whip that leaves his back, bottom and some of his belly raw and nearly flayed and then puts salt on his back. He rapes Mic twice, has an habit of digging his fingers in healing wounds and spends hours making deliberate shallow cuts on Mic’s chest and face. He keeps Mic muzzled apart from when he wants him to scream and puts a shock collar on him. Both are welded to Mic with Fusion’s metal fusing power. When Mic finally does scream, the collar chars and blisters his neck. When Pulse is ready, he takes Trigger, a quirk enhancer, and has Fusion dose Mic so his screams can be ripped from his body. When Eraserhead arrives, out for blood and vengeance, Fusion grabs Mic fully intending on running off with him. He boasts about making Mic scream and bleed and wants to keep him as a twisted plaything. Adding to this is that when Fusion and one of the other villains discussed things earlier, Fusion said he wanted to keep Mic while the other villain said there were parties interested in buying Mic. That’s scary enough and then you realize one of the most interested groups would likely be Garaki and his nomu makers. Fusion ends up stabbing mic and trying to kill him when he realizes Aizawa won’t let him out of there alive with Mic.
• Home, Let Me Come Home Imagine you’re deaf without hearing aids and they broke. Now imagine you’re hit by something that temporarily blinds you. And you’re away from home. That happens to Present Mic in this story. He’s terrified and unable to communicate and still in fight or flight mode after the villain fight that caused it. Even when he’s touched gently, he doesn’t trust the person doing it and tries to run away in fear. Aizawa has to physically put Mic’s hand on his capture weapon to communicate who he is and get Mic to calm down.
• Listen Closely, an Angel is Dying has Mic captured by a Loony Fan who’s angry at Mic for rejecting him. The guy first silences Mic with a bit and bridle made from a horse bridle and fitted with nails that dig into Mic’s face. The guy repeatedly drags Mic’s head up with the bridle, digging the nails in deeper and crushing and damaging his larynx with the strap under his chin. Mic repeatedly suffocates til he almost passes out. Then the bridle is removed but the worst is still to come. The guy attaches brackets to Mic’s back by nailing them in place. There are at least 24 nails and it takes an hour. And every time Mic passes out from shock, the guy gives him adrenaline, meaning he’s conscious for every one. Sometimes a blowtorch is used on the nail heads as well. Wings are then attached to the brackets and stitches are sewn into the skin to fasten them. Mic is then painted with his own blood and the guy intends to stab him in the throat and watch him die. He also threatens to bring in some of the students and Aizawa for his collection. The only thing stopping this is the arrival of an extremely pissed-off Aizawa, whom the guy sees as a demon. And to think that assuming Mic survived, he might have help from healing quirks but would likely have lifelong physical effects and possibly leave him unable to speak very well, let alone use his quirk, not to mention what it would’ve done to his mind…*shudder*
• Misunderstanding: Imagine attending your own autopsy while you’re still alive and completely paralyzed. Aizawa is hit by a quirk and assumed dead. No one realizes he’s still alive until they’re cutting his chest open and see a heartbeat. And he can feel all of it. Yeah.
• Where Do We Go From Here Bakugo is caught by villains who say they’ll let him die if the heroes’ demands aren’t met. And by “let him die” they mean leaving him alone, tied to a chair in a cold room with his hands tied so tightly behind him that the circulation is impaired and parts of his fingers are essentially rotting off his hands. They test him with trigger but he doesn’t remember any of it and from his perspective, he has very little human interaction. They have a camera in the room and are watching him humiliate himself failing to escape while he slowly starves. He gets water on occasion but no food. Close to two months pass by the time Kirishima finds him. It’s strongly implied that he’s Nothing but Skin and Bones as he’s too weak to even hold his head up. He has pressure sores, mangled hands and has such severe muscle wasting that he has to learn to walk again and retrain with his quirk, which the Trigger has left barely controllable.
• Incorporeal: Aizawa is hit by a quirk that traps him in a White Void Room. He sees only white. He’s tormented by sounds of his students screaming in terror and begging him to save him. He sees blood. He bangs his head repeatedly into the wall. It feels like months but Hizashi says it’s been about 10 minutes when he wakes up. Yikes.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

• "Let Me Tell You About The Hole In My Face", a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic about Applejack telling you about...well, the hole in her face. More specifically, a massive, gaping, pulsating hole that replaces her face. A massive, gaping, pulsating hole that she describes in nauseating detail. Only she can see it, everyone else thinks she has a normal face. But she knows its there and so did her parents, who were killed by it after repeated contact with it made them both deathly ill. And then there's the ending... dear god the ending!
  You will see all of this; you will see the hole in my face. Forever, you will see the hole in my face. You will see, and you'll never speak a word to anyone.
  
  You'll see and you won't speak.
  
  Because you were never there, either.
  • For what it's worth, the Nausea Fuel is slightly lessened by a comment from the author explaining that the hole isn't actually real, only existing in Applejack's delusional mind. However, that opens up a whole new can of Nightmare Fuel... imagine having a mental illness so severe that it not only causes you to believe you have a gaping wound in your face that doesn't actually exist and can't be seen by anyone but you, but convinces you that it was the cause of your parents' deaths.
• Winona by jmj starts off innocuously enough with the Reader meeting Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres as she introduces herself and talks about her dog Winona. The story then devolves into Winona encountering an Eldritch Abomination of some sort in the past that devours Winona and takes on her consciousness with Applejack being too far gone insane at that point thinking that the creature before her is Winona. She then reveals to the Reader that Applejack had essentially been feeding her family to Winona in order to sate the monsters' hunger, and that she plans to now feed you to her dog.
  "Here's Winona now..."
• Ἐλπίς, Greek for "hope", is a dark and bizarre My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic that uses Princess Celestia's immortality for Surreal Horror. It goes like this: She isn't just thousands or even millions of years old; she is so impossibly, unfathomably ancient that she has lived through countless repeated iterations of the universe, from the birth of a new world to The End of the World as We Know It and the death of all life. Every time the world comes to an end, she is always the last one alive. She finds herself standing on an impossibly long stretch of blackness called the Road, and begins to walk along it, accompanied by a mysterious creature called the Butler. As she walks down the Road for what seems to be an eternity, she is forced to relive her memories of not only the past universe, but every single universe she lived through previously, and the life of every single living creature that had ever been alive at one point. Finally, at the end of the Road, she is given a choice: to let herself and the universe die, or to restart from nothing again. And every time, she chooses to start over again, in hopes that she can prevent the end of the world. Over, and over, and over, and over...
• In Step Right In and Start Again, because of Starlight Glimmer's tampering with Star Swirl's time-travel spell, she has trapped herself in an unbreakable, eternal time loop where she appears every morning in the library thinking she's awaiting her punishment from Twilight and her friends. The rest of the world goes on as usual, but the time loop never ends for her. She can't even be Mercy Killed because the time loop brings her back if she dies. Despite the best efforts of Twilight and her friends to save Starlight from this fate, the loop proves to be impossible to break. Starlight outlives her parents, everyone in Ponyville, the Mane Six, the alicorns, all life on the planet, and the planet itself, eventually becoming the last living thing in an empty, pitch-black universe, still awaiting her punishment. Forever.
• In Blink Twilight learns the secrets behind teleportation and that it isn't just "Pop, Poof, and you're there." Instead, Teleportation essentially shuffles the Teleporter into an empty pocket dimension and creates a perfect copy of the Teleporter that is sent to the originals location and takes their place with all of the originals' memories. The Twilight Sparkle we follow discovers that the Pocket Dimension she is sent to is filled with the corpses of all other previous Twilight Sparkles that had starved to death unable to escape; there are even corpses of her friends and other Ponies that had teleported with her, along with the fact that she learns that she wasn't the original Twilight Sparkle; understanding that the first Twilight Sparkle now exists only as a pile of loose crushed bones at the bottom of the pile. Eventually, our Twilight stumbles across a deranged and Cannibalistic other Twilight Sparkle that tries to kill her.
  • There's an entire Recursive Fanfiction for "Blink", with one of the more darker ones being Rapid Blink, where all of the Twilight Sparkles that are manifested in the pocket dimension are able to find other bubble Pocket dimensions to teleport into but ultimately the Twilights are still unable to find a way back out into the real world again; and scarily-enough they all know that the interior space of the pocket dimension that they are all brought into whenever Twilight Sparkle herself teleports is finite. The Twilight Council decides to try and find a way to warn the latest Twilight Sparkle about the truth of teleportation. The story ends with the last Twilight Sparkle that is teleported in; sandwiched between the "Ceiling" of the pocket dimension and the massive pile of Twilight Sparkle bodies beneath her that have all died, pressing tightly to a folder containing the truth of teleportation in the hopes that the last Twilight to teleport out will receive the information and never teleport again: since if that happens; there will be no other Twilight to appear in the real world.
• In Everfree and the Poisoned Flower, Fluttershy tells the Cutie Mark Crusaders a scary story to keep them from going into the Everfree Forest, seemingly based on the Latin American legend of La Llorona. Once upon a time, there were two sisters named Oleander and Everfree, who lived by the forest. Just like the Crusaders, Oleander wanted her cutie mark more than anything. One day, she met a trickster named Coyote, who gave her a map that he said would lead her to her cutie mark, but said she had to leave Everfree with him and find him something to eat in return. Oleander followed the map and discovered her namesake flower, but when she got back home, she still hadn't gotten her cutie mark. And while she was gone, Everfree had disappeared (and Coyote was no longer hungry...do the math). Their mother refused to let Oleander come home until she found her little sister. Now she roams the Forest eternally, searching and calling for Everfree.
  She never gave up, though. She’s still looking today. Sometimes you can still hear her calling her sister’s name. That’s why they call it the Everfree Forest, you know. Sometimes Oleander catches a little filly who reminds her of her sister, and then...well, maybe I’ll tell you when you’re older.
• In babytails, Sweetie Belle's tail starts falling out and secreting a foul-smelling, blood-like substance. Rarity explains that she's simply shedding her tail and it's a process that all foals go through at some point. Her teacher Cheerilee gives her instructions for a strange diet that she has to eat for a week, and every adult pony she runs into warns her not to break "the rules." She gets a huge bulge in her stomach and is taken to the hospital to have it extracted. It turns out to be a disgusting fleshy growth called a babytail fruit, which is grown and harvested from young ponies in Ponyville and given to Celestia and Luna to prolong their immortality.
  • Diamond Tiara's tail also starts falling out, but she deliberately disobeys the diet plan by eating sweets. This screws up the growth process and produces a hideously deformed babytail fruit with a face that's horribly difficult and painful to extract (and when Sweetie Belle gets a glimpse into her hospital room, she sees a small fountain of blood and green liquid splatter on the ceiling).
  • The story ends with Apple Bloom about to shed her tail and Sweetie Belle whispering to her, "Please, everything will be fine. Just listen to the rules."
• In End, ponies all over Equestria mysteriously start vanishing, and nopony knows why or how to stop it. To keep Twilight safe until the crisis can be solved, Celestia sends her to an underground bunker with a computerized journal, a magic hourglass to tell time, and enough food supplies to survive. Twilight spends an unknown amount of time—possibly years, decades, even centuries—in the bunker with nothing to do but eat, sleep, and write on the computer. Her sanity starts to slip from the loneliness and silence, she loses the ability to tell time when the hourglass breaks, and the journal degrades into an Apocalyptic Log as even the computer's keys stop functioning. The last entry reads:
  dear-journal:
  
  i-need-to-keep-myself-sane:i-can-feel-myself-going-crazy-in-here:it’s-too-quiet-and-lifeless:there’s-no-joy-or-happiness:
  
  i-miss-pinkie-pie:i-miss-rarity;and-applejack;and-fluttershy;and-rainbow-dash;and-spike;and-everypony:i-just-want-to-see-them-again:i-just-want-to-live-again:but-i-can’t:i-don’t-know-why-i-even-continue-living;but-i-do:i-have-to:if-i-don’t;then-who-will-revive-equestria?
  
  i-have-to-keep-going:i’m-sad:i’m-lonely;and-depressed;and-possibly-suicidal;but-i-have-to-keep-going:i-have-to-keep-moving-forward:i-ha
• In The Elements of Discord, when the Mane Six (minus Twilight, and with Luna and Derpy) travel to a parallel-universe Crapsack World version of Equestria, one of the things they witness is Callisto (Apple Bloom's counterpart) conducting a ritual to induct Tagalong (Diamond Tiara's counterpart) into an anti-cutie mark cult. The ritual involves holding Tagalong down, muzzling her, and flaying her cutie mark off with no anesthetic, and the exposed flesh immediately being branded with a hot iron.
• Discord's New Business: In-Universe. The Crusaders go to see the adults-only play Granite Wasps and are left traumatized by it.
• In Garden Party: Petrified, Twilight is in the Canterlot statue garden and thinks about Discord's comment that he doesn't turn ponies into stone. She looks around at the statues and reassures herself that Princess Celestia would never do such a thing. To prove it, she uses a cockatrice remedy spell on a nearby statue of a mare holding a scroll...and it works. The mare starts to scream hysterically, scaring Twilight so much that she reverts the spell, and the last few panels show her with an expression of hysterical terror as she looks around at all the other statues in the garden, realizing what they are.
• The End of the Rainbow is a Recursive Fanfiction of Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles) where Rainbow Dash is a foal molester who raped Scootaloo, and Pinkie Pie is a secret operative tasked with torturing pony criminals to death and erasing memories of them from the surrounding populace. As she explains to Rainbow Dash, those criminals are then processed into meat which is sold to the wolves, dragons, and griffons in Equestria's neighboring lands. She makes Scootaloo her new apprentice and lets her assist in Rainbow Dash's torture and butchering. The story ends with Mr. and Mrs. Cake selling Rainbow Dash's flesh to an unwitting Gilda. She mentions Rainbow Dash and is creeped out when the two baker ponies have no idea who she's talking about.
• Black Tree Disease by Redstar_mlp is a TikTok series about a darker version of swamp fever. Infected ponies feel like they have a cold and then roots grow out of them. In later stages the virus uses the host’s memories to trick and infect family and friends. Finally they turn into trees and may retain consciousness and feel pain for a time. Some ponies end up in a bunker and the mane 6 slowly get infected and go insane. There’s nightmarish fan art of Shining Armor with roots growing from his mouth, his horn broken because despite the infection his parental instincts remain and he’s constantly banging his head into the wall where he’s quarantined. Also, we learn about Cherry Dew, patient zero, a filly who was taken away for experiments. And there’s audio…
• A FLEet|ng LIght |n thE DArknEsS is an Apocalyptic Log-style horror story framed as Twilight's journal which was found in a deserted Ponyville. The town is invaded by Shadow Walkers, strange inequine creatures that make ponies disappear and take them away to who knows where. The sky turns pitch-black and the temperature becomes cold. Living ponies feel a strange longing to join the creatures, hearing their friends and family calling to them. They go insane, are unable to resist the temptation to step outside, and disappear. The Mane Six stay together in Twilight's library for safety, but Fluttershy develops a fever and starts yelling about how it's not fair, that her friends are keeping her from them, that they chose her and want her to come to them. She disappears. Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Spike disappear. Twilight is the last one to succumb to the pull of the voices, with her last recorded words being, "I can’t keep fighting it. It’s the truth, right? The end? No, a beginning? Yes, their beginning, to a better path. If you could only see, you’d know. This is what she meant. It’s so beautiful. I’m ready. It’s the only choice I have left." The story ends with...well, the image is broken now, but it used to be an image of giant jagged letters that read: "ALL ELSE FAILED."
• Cracklewink's Harmony Syndrome is a Zombie Apocalypse AU concept with plenty of horror. See it for yourself here: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Prologue.
  • For starters, any blood contact is enough to contract the disease. A bite, a scratch, simply brushing with an infected somewhere where you have an open wound... Once a pony becomes infected, they gain a desire to hunt and eat other ponies. Oh, but they don't become mindless; they remain self-aware, feeling the hunger grow a bit every day until they give in - if they taste meat, they completely lose control over their bodies. If an infected devours a pony's brain, killer and victim will merge into an Amalgamation, in a process that's explicitly stated to involve their souls mixing together.
  • Discord's magic doesn't work against the infection, forcing him to erect a barrier to cut off Equestria from the rest of the world, at the cost of transforming into a petrified tree and sending himself into a coma.
  • There is however a vaccine, which can immunize people. Side effects include sprouting extra limbs and becoming an obligate carnivore. This is because the main ingredient for the vaccine is the Last Hope Lily, a flower that sprouts from the corpses of any Amalgamation who died after absorbing too many people. That's right: to become immune, you essentially have to become part-Amalgamation.
  • The biggest threat is the Alicorn Amalgam, a gigantic Amalgamation of hundreds of ponies, including Celestia, Luna and Twilight Sparkle - the latter of which is described as Patient Zero. On top of that, the Prologue reveals that Twilight herself was the one who created the Harmony Syndrome. Why? Because the other Mane Six were getting older, while she had become The Ageless due to her status as an alicorn; so she sought a way to make them immortal, but it backfired immensely.
  • In Twilight's journal, she states that the Tree Of Harmony itself gave her the idea for the immortality spell. Coupled with the fact that Discord's chaos magic (which, in canon, is explicitly stated to be weak against Harmony) was completely ineffective against the infection, this raises some pretty worrying implications about what the disease even is.