I Want Nightmare Fuel!

[WorldBreakerNovels]

Let's see your scariest scenes! A face! A monster! Maybe even a SpongeBob-style overly detailed/disgusting image!

Ruin my dreams and promote your horrid mind!

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[kyupol]

[ArtGremlin]

I don’t have anything scary drawn, so I was thinking about all stories I’ve come up with and what scene would be the scariest. So I’ve pretty much just been writing an entire novel for some reason (that’s why It’s been taking me forever to update my comic ) and there’s this one arc where the mcs go inside this massive tree (MASSIVE) I’m talking like a mile wide trunk. Anyway, this tree is riddled with “mining” tunnels and there’s some barracks that the mcs go to sleep in. After some time, one of them wakes up to the other moving around. Then the wood from the floor pretty much liquifies and shrink wraps around the one who’s standing up while the other one watches in horror. Then, he sees a creepy wooden face in the floor that speaks to him.
Not exactly the creepiest of creepy things, but I think it’s the creepiest thing I’ve written.

[Mohini9000]

Scary is exaggerating it, but even a fluffy lighthearted series like Haru and Tsukasa has its fair share of nightmare fuel:

One where Tsukasa is searching for a new outfit to wear for his stream

Another where Tsukasa is complaining about sewing pockets

[WorldBreakerNovels]

Interesting! I have a future story that has the main characters face off against a dryad that finds its way to the desert. Since there's no nourishment, it uses spores to mind control nearby people to collect meat and plants to form a forest on the edge of the desert.

It begins creating massive roots to filter and siphon water from the ocean, and the people who are still collecting meat and plants are long since dead and are just sunbleached, scabbed and blistered corpses being controlled by plant spores.

[WorldBreakerNovels]

Not all nightmares require actual horror. Very nice!

[Zhengo]

I think this sequence is quite intense and scary

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[ambermdo]

A few scenes from my upcoming werewolf comic

[DasIstWunderblyat]

I don't make comics, so there's not much illustrated ones (I believe making readers imagine it themselves will make it scarier)

While not nightmare fuels per se, I kinda have some unsavoury looking creachers (and humans) drawn for my own reference.

spoiler because long

Cervitaur avatar

The human behind it

Harpy avatar

Hare beast

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My series itself has people mistaken its direction to be supernatural horror, but it's ultimately not (and IMHO not scary at all). I also have toned it down compared to the draft versions.

I really like using nightmare or hallucination scenes, it can be an easy way to portray the characters' state of mind and foreshadowing.
Straight into the second chapter, the protagonist saw a fetus floating in his soup. I add recurrent imagery about things related to gestation and birth (placenta, deformed fetus), because it has significance in the future and I just find fetuses uncanny.

If I was to be honest, I find the power system and societal aspect of the story are more disturbing. I haven't gone too far in the story to make it apparent (and probably readers miss it anyway, because I don't make it a focal point), but so far we have curses, oppressive governments with their "moral correctness" plus brainwashing programs (and they can insta-kill you in some instances!), cults, shitty "afterlife", human trafficking, people being turned into objects, and cannibals.

[thepenmonster]

I want nightmare fuel!

Nigel Farage leaning in for a kiss.

[wolflu66]

This is a fanart for The Little Trashmaid that I drew in 2021. There was an interesting incident at that time. After I sent this to s0s2, she asked me not to post it online yet. Later I found out that the new update of her comic series that week had a scene very similar to mine, quite a coincidence.

Spencer's nightmare

This was from the TLT series at that time, when Neptaan first revealed his sharp teeth.

[michoverse]

Some friends told me my story was nightmare fuel and yes, a stitched up corpse is still scary even if she's the cutest

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[WorldBreakerNovels]

Now THIS is what I was envisioning when I posed this post!

[WorldBreakerNovels]

Horror is always subjective. However, some things are universally horrifying. Walking into a house, not bad. Walking into a dark house with creaky floors is a little different lol.

[Rego-Artists]

If you want nightmare fuel you may want to check out my sci-fi horror comic, Space Paternity :3
Being cornered in a public bathroom is one of my greatest fears, monster or not.

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[Ayumi]

I like horror, but my comics does not contain so much of it. Well, maybe Furusato House contains here and there...
This is from Furusato House:

And this is from The Daughter of Time. I guess I have a thing with clocks

[RED-VELVET-CUPCAKE]

Whenever I need to de-stress, I draw a thing with big teeth.