Dark art can be described as bizarre, bloody, creepy, demonic, disgusting, disturbing, evil, frightening, ghastly, ghoulish, gloomy, gorey, gothic, grotesque, gruesome, horrific, macabre, menacing, monstrous, nasty, nightmarish, obscene, scary, spooky, strange, surreal, terrifying, tragic, vampiric, vicious, violent, weird, and witchy.
Actors
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Lon Chaney 1883–1930
- Lon Chaney, Jr. 1906–1973
- Boris Karloff 1887–1969
- Maila Nurmi 1922–2008
- Vincent Price 1911–1993
Cartoonists
- Charles Addams 1912–1988
- Joakim Pirinen 1961-
Directors
- Tim Burton
- Wes Craven 1939–2015
- David Cronenberg
- David Lynch
- Ed Wood 1924–1978
Illustrators
- Aubrey Beardsley 1872–1898
- Edward Gorey 1925–2000
Musicians
Painters
- Francis Bacon 1909–1992
- Margaret Keane
- Edvard Munch 1863–1944
- Kalervo Palsa 1947-1987
Writers
- Franz Kafka 1883–1924
- Stephen King
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft 1890–1937
- Edgar Allan Poe 1809–1849
- Anne Rice
- Mary Shelley 1797–1851