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Horror

Subject-matter domain covering material intended to frighten. A fetched trade source groups it as "all those subjects that have their origin in the visual imagery related to devilish creatures", naming demons, zombies, half-animal and half-human beings and skulls as the recurring western horror subjects, and notes an Asian interpretation expressed through ghosts, demonic spirits and masks. Horror is a THEME and not a style: it is carried by whatever style renders it, which is why T11.6 split the repo's fused 'horror-realism' label into a style, a theme and a mood.
Attested
Medium confidenceresearched

1 attested · 4 promoted3 sources · T2

Also called dark horror

What the research says

themes_seed
Moods
ominous
Keywords
horror; dark horror; frightening subject matter
Compatible styles
realism

Provenance

3 resolved

  • Black and Grey dark horror Tattoos (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattoo Life Crew, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine gallery feature. Verbatim: "Under the dark horror hat fall all those subjects that have their origin in the visual imagery related to devilish creatures"; "In western horror, they are demons, they are zombies, they are half-animal and half-human beings, skulls and other subjects often linked to the heavy metal genre". The only fetched source that names undead and demonic subject matter as tattoo categories.

    professional tattoo source · published 2024-07-05 · retrieved 2026-08-28

  • Macabre, grotesque and unsetting tattoos (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Maggie Whales, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine gallery feature. Verbatim: "Macabre, with demonic depictions, hostile nature, hangings and gruesome death scenes"; "The subjects are those of nightmares, visions and demonic interpretations." TRANSCRIPTION NOTE: the article title as published reads "unsetting", transcribed here exactly as the source spells it.

    professional tattoo source · published 2022-07-01 · retrieved 2026-08-28

  • vibe-ink-flow frontend/src/data/stylePreviewData.ts (in-repo style vocabulary)

    Tier 3

    VIBE TATTOOS (this repository)

    NOT A WEB SOURCE - read in-repo on 2026-08-28, not fetched. The file names 19 style labels including realism-black-gray, realism-full-color, horror-realism, nightmare-realism and photorealistic as sibling entries. It establishes only that these labels exist in this codebase, not that they name distinct styles. Cited by the split-derived theme, mood and palette nodes created to decompose the fused labels per IMPLEMENTATION_NOTE section 5.

    internal expert · retrieved 2026-08-28

Related concepts

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Associated with · 4

  • ← incomingRealismStyleAttested
    strength 0.50draft

    Subject axis extracted from the repo's fused 'horror-realism' style label. Context-dependent: realism is not inherently a horror style.

  • ← incomingDemonMotifThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_demon ('horror'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_dark_horror; source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • ← incomingZombieMotifThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_zombie ('horror'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingOminousMoodAttested
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from themes_seed.moods of theme_horror ('ominous'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_dark_horror; source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; source_repo_style_preview_data; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Compatible with · 1

  • → outgoingRealismStyleAttested
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from themes_seed.compatible_styles of theme_horror ('realism'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_dark_horror; source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; source_repo_style_preview_data; the first is carried in source_id. compatible_with is symmetric; recorded once, traversable from either endpoint. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Narrower concepts · 6