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Nightmare

Horror subject matter organised around dream-terror imagery rather than around a monster or a killer. Fetched trade sources describe macabre tattoo subjects as "those of nightmares, visions and demonic interpretations" and place "nightmare visions" inside contemporary horror-fantasy tattoo work. Parented under theme_horror following Stage A doc 03, which lists nightmare inside the Horror family.
Attested
Medium confidenceresearched

1 attested · 2 promoted3 sources · T2

What the research says

themes_seed
Moods
nightmarish
Keywords
nightmare; nightmare visions
Compatible styles
realism

Provenance

3 resolved

  • 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

  • The contemporary Horror Fantasy tattoo style (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattoo Life Crew, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine gallery feature. Verbatim: "Animals, people, mythology, Biomech inspiration and nightmare visions all come together" and there are "references to the grand masters of horror and the classics of the fantasy genre with real, long ago medieval settings". Used for fantasy-as-tattoo-subject and for nightmare; the article's own genre label 'Horror Fantasy' is NOT registered as a node because it fuses a theme with a style register.

    professional tattoo source · published 2022-12-28 · 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 · 2

  • ← incomingRealismStyleAttested
    strength 0.50draft

    Subject axis extracted from the repo's fused 'nightmare-realism' style label.

  • → outgoingNightmarishMoodAttested
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from themes_seed.moods of theme_nightmare ('nightmarish'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; source_tattoolife_horror_fantasy; 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_nightmare ('realism'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; source_tattoolife_horror_fantasy; 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.