The Dark Directory
Welcome to the Dark Directory, a list of assorted links to dark content.
Here, you will find everything about horror and weird content.
Please, do not hesitate to send suggestions.
WARNING: Some of the links may contain themes that may be disturbing, or even distressing to some. Please be advised.
4chan
| /x/ Creepypasta Archive
(2015 Annex) (2016 Annex) |
Massive archive of ressources from 4chan's paranormal board, /x/, by the Bibliotheca Anonoma. |
| Deep sea threads & dive anon stories | Text-to-Speech readings of spooky underwater stories from /x/. |
| Manor of Tian | A party of adventurers explores a haunted mansion. |
| My best horror RPG | OP recounts GMing a space horror RPG. |
| Random Encounters for Surreal Elevator Horror | Brainstorming for ideas of strange happenins in a strange elevator. |
| Ruby Quest | Collection of one of /tg/'s earliest quest thread series. |
| Spooky ideas | Anons share spooky ideas. |
| Tales of Maine Guy | Text-to-Speech readings of a compilation of legendary stories from a Maine taxi driver on /x/. |
Art
| 0blasphemian | Strange, gory photomontages. |
| Andrea Hasler | Meat-based contemporary artist. |
| Andres Rios | Dark fantasy freelance concept artist and character designer. |
| Austen Mengler | Digital artist with a colorful style, who often makes warped version of cartoon characters. |
| Cachet | Freelance illustrator who makes creepy drawings. |
| CODEX NOIRMATIC | Horror illustrator. |
| charcoalman | Charcoal/pastel artist who draws horror art. |
| Dae-K | Digital artist with an affinity for red worlds. |
| Danny Ingrassia | Artist with a love for too large gaping faces. |
| Dark Art Movement | Art marketplace promoting "dark art". |
| Darkclub | DeviantArt group dedicated to creepy works. |
| David Romero | Freelance horror illustrator. |
| DustyRayPaints | Disturbing, red warping gouache paintings. |
| Emil Melmoth | "Macabre artist" with a great fascination with Death. |
| Fern | Tumblr account dedicated to "ephemeralcore" images, often oneiric, uncomfortable. |
| Fyyaa | Horror illustrator & comic artist. |
| H.R. Giger The Official Website | Official website of legendary macabre artist H.R. Giger. |
| Home Video Horrors | Photo tributes to VHS cult horror movies. |
| Joshua Hoffine | Horror photographer and filmmaker. |
| JRGDrawing | Midwestern horror artist. |
| kieu | Horror illustrator who makes monsters. |
| Kim Jakobsson | Deformed, mutilated portraits. |
| Knoth | Horror artist with varied styles. |
| Leech | Spooky, cartoony art. |
| Leovincible | Digital artist who makes creepy creatures. |
| lilcthulhu | Russian horror illustrator. |
| Maéna Paillet | Dark, eerie digital art. |
| Malcrow7 | Horror artist. |
| Marc C Green | Dark fantasy illustrator. |
| Marisa Bruno | Horror illustrator and painter. |
| Mike Franchina | Freelance concept artist who makes creepy warriors and monsters. |
| Morpheus Gallery | Contemporary surreal and fantastic art gallery. |
| Museum of Macabre Art | Gallery of dark works ranging from renaissance art to digital art. |
| Necronaut Studios | 3D horror artist who dabbles in multiple medias. |
| Oleg Vdovenko | Horror 2D/3D artist. |
| Olivier De Sagazan | French artist known for his use of clay in performance art. |
| Paul Gerrard | Character designer who often makes creepy art. |
| Romeck | Digital horror artist. |
| Sara Renzetti & Antonello Serra | Artists who makes very realistic organic creations. |
| sarcoma | Horror illustrator. |
| ScribblesHorror | Twitter horror artist. |
| Skullis | Gemstone and crystal skull seller. |
| SpaghettiBastard | Horror comic artist. |
| TreehouseOfSpiders | Horror artist with varied styles. |
| Trent Manning | Cute, creepy sculptures in various materials. |
| Trevor Henderson | Artist who draws original creepy creatures. |
| Tomás Boersner | Dark fantasy artist. |
| Unhappy893 | Creepy charcoal drawings. |
| Virtual Museum of Zdzisław Beksiński | Virtual gallery for Polish dystopian surrealist painter Zdzisław Beksiński's works. |
| Watchful Eye | Black & white horror artist. |
| Wayne Barlowe | Sci-fi, fantasy author and illustrator. |
| Zawadzki Art | Virutal gallery for Polish dystopian surrealist painter Dariusz Zawadzki's works. |
Conspiracies
| The Black Vault | FOIA Document Archive. |
| CIA's Reading Room | Declassified CIA files. |
Cryptozoology
| Bigfoot Research Network | Network group dedicated to gather evidence of Bigfoot. |
| Cryptid Wiki | Cryptozoology wiki. |
| Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology | Cryptozoology wiki. |
| International Cryptozoology Museum | Official website for cryptozoology museum in Portland, Maine. |
| Merrylin Cryptid Museum | Virtual museum dedicated to cryptobiologist Thomas Merrylin. |
| Mothmanlives | Website dedicated to the Mothman and related mysteries. |
| North American Wood Ape Conservancy | Bigfoot reaserch group. |
| Ogopogo Quest | Website about the Ogopogo, Lake Okanagan's alleged monster. |
Film
| 366 Weird Movies | Website dedicated to list the best weird movies. |
| 45 Lampkin Lane | Halloween fansite. |
| A Night of Horror | International horror film festival. |
| All Horror | Horror movie database. |
| The B-Movie Film Vault | B-movie reviews and news. |
| Bela Lugosi - The Official Website | Official website of Dracula actor Bela Lugosi. |
| BlackHorrorMovies | Website about movies featuring black characters. |
| BlairWitch.de | German horror movie news website. |
| Blairwitch.net | Blair Witch Project fan forums. |
| Book of the Dead | The Evil Dead fansite. |
| CaptainHowdy | The Exorcist fansite. |
| CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON WEBSITE | Creature from the Black Lagoon fansite. |
| Deadites Online | The Evil Dead fansite. |
| Fangoria | The OG horror movie magazine. |
| fanofspooky | Horror movie posters and GIFs. |
| Films-horreur.com | Horror film news in French. |
| Found Footage Critic | Found footage database. |
| Friday the 13th: The Website | Friday the 13th fansite and forum. |
| The Grindhouse Cinema Database | Grindhouse exploitation movie database. |
| HalloweenMovies | Official website for the Halloween series. |
| Heaven of Horror | Website for horror movie & tv series. |
| The Hellbound Web | Hellraiser fansite from the Usenet era. |
| Horreur.net | Horror film database in french. |
| iHorror | Horror movie news website. |
| Internet Archive’s Sci-Fi / Horror films | Internet Archive's collection of sci-fi and horror movies. |
| LynchNet | David Lynch fansite. |
| Modern Horrors | Horror film reviews and news. |
| New York City Horror Film Festival | NYC horror film festival. |
| Nightmare on Elm's Street Companion | Nightmare on Elm's Street fansite. |
| Occult Demon Cassette | Uploads of ripped VHS about the occult and the paranormal. |
| The Omen Online | The Omen series fansite. |
| The Overlook Hotel | The Shining fansite. |
| Page des fans de Twin Peaks | French Twin Peaks fansite. |
| Poltergeist: The Fan Site | Poltergeist fansite. |
| The Reel Gill-man | Official site of Ben Chapman, who played the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon |
| RINGU FAN | The Ring fansite. |
| SAWFreaks | SAW fansite. |
| Screamfest | Los Angeles horror film festival. |
| Serial Experiments Lain Wiki | Lain wiki. |
| Shadow's B-Movie Graveyard | B-movie review website. |
| Sitges Film Festival | Catalan horror film festival. |
| TEEN HORROR FACTORY | Teenage horror movie reviews and info. |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Visit to the Film Locations | Texas Chainsaw Massacre fansite. |
| thought experiments lain | Lain. |
| Troma | Official website of B-movie production company Troma.
Notable for producing the Toxic Avengers series and other exploitation movies. |
| Twin Peaks Online | Twin Peaks fansite. |
| Universal Monsters Universe | Universal Monsters movie franchise fansite. |
| The Unofficial Addams Family Web Site | Addams Family fansite. |
| Welcome to Twin Peaks | Twin Peaks fansite. |
| wired.entry.neocities | Lain. |
| ⌈Wired Sound For Wired People⌋ | Lain. |
| The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre | Huge list of weird and disturbing movie reviews. |
General horror
| /x/ Librarian | General spooky stuff. |
| Bloody Disgusting | News and reviews for anything horror. |
| Buried.com | Horror catalog. |
| Club Stephen King | French Steven King news website. |
| Crypticon Seattle | Seattle horror convention. |
| Dread Central | Horror news and reviews. |
| Folk Horror Magpie | Folk Horror enthusiast. |
| Folk Horror Revival & Urban Wyrd Project | Website dedicated to Folk Horror subgenre. |
| The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society | International organization for fans of H.P. Lovecraft.
Produced several Lovecraft-related creations such as movie adaptations. |
| Horreur Québec | French-Canadian horror website. |
| Horrified | British horror magazine. |
| Horror.net | Horror directory. |
| Horror Asylum | Horror entertainment news and reviews. |
| Horror DNA | Horror entertainment news and reviews. |
| Horror News | Horror entertainment news and reviews. |
| Horror Society | Horror entertainment news, reviews and other. |
| Lilja's Library | Stephen King news website. |
| Kanoguti | Japanese multimedia outsider artist. |
| Morbidly Beautiful | Horror entertainment website. |
| r/analog_horror | Subreddit for analog horror content. |
| r/horror | Horror content subreddit. |
| Revelations: The Official Clive Barker Website | Official website of Clive Barker. |
| Rue Morgue | Horror entertainment news. |
| SCREAM | Horror entertainment magazine. |
| Spooky Empire | Bi-annual multi-genre horror convention. |
| Stephen King France | French Steven King news website. |
| WHITEDESERT | Collection of surreal and/or horror content. |
General paranormal
| Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena | Group dedicated to the study of paranormal phenomena. |
| Coast to Coast AM | Famed paranormal radio show. |
| Darkness Radio | Paranormal radio show.
Also has a true crime show. |
| Dead Rabbit Radio | Paranormal, true crime, and conspiracy podcast. |
| Encyclopédie du Paranormal | French wiki for paranormal subjects. |
| Fortean Times | UK paranormal magazine. |
| Mysterious Universe | Paranormal news and podcast. |
| ObscUrban Legend Wiki | Wiki for obscure cryptids and other weirdness. |
| The Paranormal Database | Database for strange happenings mainly in the United Kingdom. |
| r/UnsolvedMysteries | Subreddit about unsolved mysteries. |
| Touraine Insolite | French forum dedicated to the paranormal in the historic province of Touraine. |
Literature
| Creepypasta Wiki | Main repository for creepypastas. |
| The Dracula Society | London gothic literature and travel group. |
| The Gothic Library | Gothic book blog. |
| Horror Writers Association | Association of writers and publishing professionals, promoting horror literature. |
| Midnight Society | Resources for horror writers. |
| NES Godzilla Creepypasta | NES Godzilla Creepypasta's official website. |
| The Princess Creepypasta | Spooky ghost killing people through games. |
| Project Gutenberg's Horror section | Horror section of Project Gutenberg, an online library of free eBooks. |
| r/horrorlit | Subreddit for horror literature. |
| r/nosleep | Original horror writing subreddit. |
| RPC Authority | Collaborative horror writing project about a mysterious organization capturing and researching strange entities.
Offshoot of SCP with a way more consistent canon. |
| SCP Foundation | Collaborative horror writing project about a mysterious organization capturing and researching strange entities.
The original project. |
| Slimebeast | Official forum and website of short horror story writer, Christopher Howard Wolf aka Slimebeast. |
| Too Much Horror Fiction | Vintage horror literature reviews. |
| Wikisource's Horror section | Horror section of Wikisource. |
Music
| Ancient Iron | Medieval Dark Ambient, Dungeon Synth artist. |
| Ancient Meadow Records | Dungeon synth record label. |
| ANIHILA | Dark Space Ambient music project. |
| BLAKMOTH | Experimental Industrial Ambient artist. |
| The Caretaker | Hauntological music project by Leyland James Kirby, exploring memory deterioration and nostalgia. |
| Cemetery Dwell | Argentinian Death Metal band. |
| Cryo Chamber | Dark Ambient record label. |
| Crypts of Despair | Lithuanian Death metal band. |
| Dungeon Deep Records | Dungeon Synth and medieval ambient record label. |
| The Dungeon Synth Archives | YouTube channel dedicated to dungeon synth and other related genres. |
| Eye of Purgatory | Swedish Death Metal band. |
| Fleshdriver | Florida Death Metal band. |
| Gatecreeper | Arizona Death Metal band. |
| Gondolin Records | Dungeon Synth record label. |
| Leyland Kirby | Experimental ambient artist, known for his work as the Caretaker. |
| Mimico | Dark Folk and Dungeon Synth artist. |
| Nameless King | Dungeon Synth artist. |
| Realm Of Sleep Records | Dungeon Synth projects by J. Browne. |
| SARCATOR | Swedish Death Metal band. |
| Serpent's Sword Records | Black Metal and Dungeon Synth artist. |
| UNDISCLOSED | Dark Ambient, Drone anonymous EPs. |
| Vigor Deconstruct | Black Metal record label. |
Neocities (unclassifiable)
| The GIF Necronomicon | Spooky GIFs galore. |
| Vampire Club | All about vampires. |
Travel / Exploration
| Atlas Obscura | Travel guide for strange places. |
| Les Catacombes de Paris | Official website for Paris' Catacombs. |
| HauntedHouse.com | US haunted house catalog.
Also has an horror content directory. |
| Urbex Playground | Urban exploration website with a rural exploration section. |
| Urbex Session | French urban exploration website. |
True crime
| Casebook: Jack the Ripper | Jack the Ripper website. |
| Golden State Killer | East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker / Golden State Killer website. |
| Jack The Ripper 1888 | Jack the Ripper website. |
| Murderpedia | Online encyclopedic dictionary of murderers. |
| True Crime Daily | True crime news and podcast. |
| TueursEnSerie.org | French website on serial killers. |
| The Visalia Ransacker | Visalia Ransacker website. |
| Whitechapel Jack | Jack the Ripper website. |
| ZODIAC KILLER.COM | Zodiac Killer website. |
UFOs and Extraterrestrials
| GEIPAN - Groupe d'Études et d'Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés | Official website of the French Space Agency unit in charge of reserching UFOs.
Complete with database and stats. |
| Mutual UFO Network | UFO investigation & research organization. |
| RoswellBooks.com | UFO books promoting website with loads of infos on UFO cases. |
| UFOAlert.com | UFO sighting database. |
| UfoSightingsToday | UFO news and cases. |
| UFO Casebook | UFO sighting database. |
Video games
| /v/'s Recommended Games Wiki's Scary Horror & Mindfuck list | List of recommended horror and weird games by /v/'s wiki. |
| Airdorf | Indie game dev known for their home computer game style. |
| Dark RPGs
(Steam Curator) |
Website about dark RPGs and strategy games. |
| DreadXP | Horor game news and reviews.
Also produces the indie horror game compilation series Dread X Collection. |
| Emil "Ace" Macko | Creator of FNAF fangame series "Five Nights at Candy's". |
| The Gorkhon Archives | Pathologic fansite. |
| The Haunted PS1 | Official itch.io page of the Haunted PS1 indie dev group who specializes in low-poly games.
Notably known for their demo discs. |
| Horror Game Aesthetics | Twitter account run by @acserusx.
Regularly posts about horror games. |
| John Wolfe | Horror let's player with a critical outlook. |
| KIRA | KIRA's official website.
A indie horror game dev known for Lost in Vivo and Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion. |
| Kitty Horrorshow | Indie horror game dev, known for their surrealist and psychological horror games. |
| Lisa Fan Project Archives | Archive of LISA THE PAINFUL RPG fan content. |
| LovelyHellPlace | Indie horror dev who makes fantasy horror.
Makes other fine stuff like comics and animation. |
| LSD: Dream Emulator Wiki | Wiki about PS1 surreal exploration game LSD: Dream Emulator. |
| MADE in HEAVEN | Resident Evil protagonist Chris Redfield fansite. |
| Modus Interactive | Indie game dev who specializes in low-poly games. |
| PRIMAL EYES | Parasite Eve fansite. |
| Project Umbrella | Resident Evil fansite. |
| Puppet Combo | Indie horror game dev and producer, known for their 80s aesthetics. |
| r/creepygaming | Subreddit dedicated to creepy things in video games. |
| Rely on Horror | Horror gaming website. |
| Saint
(Games archived by him) |
Indie game dev and let's player, dedicated to archive and play very obscure games.
a true gamer. |
| Scottworld | Five Nights at Freddy's news channel. |
| shane yach | Surreal horror indie game dev. |
| SHN Survival Horror Network | No commentary, very high definition let's plays of survival horror games. |
| Skeletons in Video Games | Right in the title. |
| STiP0 | YouTube channel dedicated to the Dead Rising video game series. |
| Vidas Games | Indie horror game dev known for the Timore series. |
| Welcome to Greenvale | Deadly Premonition / Red Seeds Profile fansite. |
| Yames | Indie game dev, maker of warped worlds. |
| Decentralized backup of hundreds of Yume Nikki fangames. | |
| Yume Nikki Fangames Wiki | Wiki cataloging Yume Nikki fangames. |