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Title: HAEL KEEPS SMILING
Artist: Marydeer
Bio: They've been throwing pitchforks, but he doesn't despair. His red sweater is still warm, and his smile is still bright. Some ghosts don't haunt - they just keep smiling.

Title: The Night Inherits Its Daughters
Artist: Laura Florey
Bio: I explore creativity through technology, where art finds new ways to breathe. I’m fascinated by the quiet emotion that can emerge from something built with logic and code. The collaboration between AI and human creativity is beginning to produce amazing things and I am happy to be a part of it.

Title: Chains of the Condemned
Artist: CyberMonk Studio
Bio: "Chains of the Condemned" explores the uncomfortable truth that medieval horror wasn't born from supernatural imagination—it emerged from documented human cruelty. This piece captures an execution ground at dawn, where wooden crosses bound in heavy chains stand as a testament to systematic judicial murder.

Title: Soul Eater
Artist: Milan Pokora

Title: The Apple
Artist: Mad Dragon

Title: The Harvest of Shadows
Artist: Beanie Blossom

Title: The Undying Vow
Artist: Mitochondralorian

Title: The Ember Crown
Artist: ThoWiMaRe
Bio: 🔥 I burned through the night until even silence knew my name. Gold dripped from the wounds like memory, each spark a confession, each breath a vow to awaken once more. ✨ For even in ruin I remain, a flame that forgot to die. 🌒

Title: Transition
Artist: Fatemeh Hajiabbaszadeh
Bio: a faceless human, as if a symbol of us all in moments of vulnerability, standing amidst cracked walls and worn-out time. Yet within that place lies hidden strength; the red drape, a sign of courage and vitality, wraps around the body and carries it from ruins into a new dance. The crown upon the head is not of royalty, but of resilience; a reminder that even in collapse, one can reign over oneself. This work whispers: hardships are walls, yet within the human being, there is always a bright pass

Title: Allieoop
Artist: CryptoBaconBitz

Title: Nitemare Nitegroove 🐦‍⬛💀🦇🎃
Artist: Johanna Nyqvist

Title: Rage against the Peacock 🦚👻
Artist: Token Peacock

Title: Is there anybody out there? 👽👽👽
Artist: Johanna Nyqvist

Title: Ghost
Artist: Mad Dragon
Bio: Mad Digital and AI artist

Title: I Hunger
Artist: Average Poet

Title: Jesus Preaches to the Dead
Artist: Sam Towns
Bio: A visual for the period between Jesus' death on the cross and his resurrection on the third day. I Peter 3:18-19 NKJV [18] For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, [19] by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison.

Title: Come closer, I might grant you a wish
Artist: Lord iiiip

Title: Floating Heads and Hands – Silent Ascension
Artist: ThoWiMaRe
Bio: Where silence breathes,the mortal remains of the forgotten rise from their graves.Skeletal hands reach out from the darkness,grasping at the fragments of the past.Bare skulls, with hollow eyes,search for lost thoughts... and the light remembers them all. ✨💀

Title: Dark Gothic Queen
Artist: Ed (Maqua..)

Title: DOZHAM
Artist: Fatemeh Hajiabbaszadeh
Bio: DOZHAM It is an original Persian word.
aperson who is sad, angry, and homesick at the same time Reviewing memories and events that are common to everyone may sometimes be sad and sometimes happy, but there are events that are definitely common to everyone, such as betrayal, falling in love, and losing someone in life. They cause us to experience several emotions at once and experience a very unknown feeling and not know whether we are feeling good or bad. And you want to fly out of your brain li

Title: Ecosystem
Artist: Honza Krčál

Title: The Crimson Lament
Artist: Beanie Blossom
Bio: In the hush between heartbeats, he cries for the beauty that perished with the light.

Title: Once I was
Artist: Michelle (Lenny)

Title: Cosmic Requiem
Artist: Krys

Title: Noisy Night of Spooks
Artist: Kira Risugawa
Bio: Even ghosts, when they gather together, might find joy — perhaps even forget their grudges and lingering resentments for a while.＊Donate my artist share to charity

Title: Scream of the dead
Artist: Kat1212
Bio: Dear friends follow my passion

Title: Dark mage
Artist: Catherine Germain
Bio: Once near retirement I discovered AI and a new passion started. Creative visual storyteller, I craft inspiring prompts and images exploring resilience, emotion, and narrative through digital art and illustration, with a focus on human experience and nature. Engaged in meaningful, empathetic visual expression.

Title: The Oracle of the Silent Choir
Artist: NARI (나리)
Bio: Draped in celestial code and golden decay, she hums the language of forgotten gods — where beauty remembers death, and death remembers light. #VAVoktober

Title: Pug'n'Bats #1
Artist: Habibi the Pug

Title: Masquerade du Monarque
Artist: Rich Greeley
Bio: (Rich) AKA @CryptoBaconBitz - NFT Artist, Philanthropist & Co-Founder of ARK InstituteWith a passion for creativity and altruism, I delved into Cryptocurrency, Art & NFTs. As one of ARK Institute's co-founders, I am proud to help support and explore blockchain to help innovate philanthropy with secure donations to vetted charities.Art bridges creativity and compassion, transcending boundaries and uniting people.My collections embrace shared experiences and inspirations.

Title: Veiled In Mystery
Artist: Janča M.

Title: The Keeper of the Moonlit Castle
Artist: minblue
Bio: A mysterious figure with antlers and glowing eyes emerges from the mist before his castle a gothic guardian born from moonlight and shadow. This illustration blends fantasy storytelling with dark atmospheric design. Minoo Rezaei is an illustrator exploring surreal and emotional worlds through dark fantasy and atmospheric storytelling.

Title: The Photographer
Artist: @Souther38496623

Title: Soul Eater 2
Artist: Milan Pokora

Title: Sanctum Mechanica
Artist: NARI (나리)
Bio: Where devotion meets circuitry, and prayer takes the shape of veins.She blooms in silence — a relic dreaming of blood and gold.inspired by #VAVoktober

Title: Pug'n'Bats #2
Artist: Habibi the Pug

Title: The Wings That Once Knew Flight
Artist: Zahra haeri
Bio: In the heart of a silent autumn, a woman stands; neither alive nor dead. Her body is made of straw, her gaze of memories, and her wings of bones that once knew flight. She is a scarecrow no longer meant to frighten, but made to remain. Amid the blowing wind and the quiet of trees, she is the guardian of the forgotten. Perhaps a shadow of ourselves, standing on the threshold between light and darkness. Look at her... Not to fear, But to remember: Beauty sometimes makes its home within fear.

Title: Martyrdom Ascending
Artist: CyberMonk Studio
Bio: Where devotion meets circuitry. A saint wrapped in technological corruption, praying to gods we haven't invented yet. Gothic spirituality reimagined: does the soul survive when flesh becomes machine?

Title: Escaping your fears
Artist: artmediamixx
Bio: Multidisciplinary Artist

Title: Dark Arts 🐈‍⬛+🦚=👻
Artist: Token Peacock

Title: The Last Toast of the Fallen Angel
Artist: ThoWiMaRe
Bio: I drink and smoke, even if it kills me, death already did its part… yet even the ashes still carry pride and grace, remembering they are free, able to drift wherever the last wind dares to blow. 💀🔥🍺✨

Title: The Pale Huntsman
Artist: Laura Florey