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** A lot of Medieval depictions of hell could go under here too. Bosch's is definitely the strangest, but there's other ones too.
* Francis Bacon.
* [[wikipedia:Zdzislaw Beksinski|Zdzislaw Beksinski's]] "Fantastic Period" between the '60s and '80s. He said he wanted his work to look like photographs of dreams, not necessarily anything horrific.
* [[H. R. Giger]].
* [[Francisco Goya]]'s "Black Period".
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* ''[[Carnival of Souls]]'' is another classic example.
* ''[[Jacob's Ladder]]'', which {{spoiler|turns out to be the protagonist's [[Dying Dream]]}}, slams back and forth between terrifying weirdness and mundane drama with the abruptness of getting hit over the back of the head with a brick.
* ''[[Tetsuo:
* ''Begotten'', a [[Silence Is Golden|silent]], [[Deliberately Monochrome|black-and-white]] [[Le Film Artistique|experimental]] film that opens with [[God]] disembowelling Himself. It just gets weirder from there.
* Several scenes from ''[[Angel Heart]]'' veer into this territory, most notably the [[Fan Disservice|infamous sex scene]].
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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk9nQG1J7Xs The Woman Who Powders Herself]'', an insane black and white short from the 70s that features lots of animation effects and disfigurements.
* ''[[Possession]]''.
* [[Ken Russell]]'s ''Gothic''.
* The works of Shozin Fukui, such as ''964 Pinocchio'' (1991) and ''Rubber's Lover'' (1996) depict surreal horror in a manner similar to ''[[Tetsuo:
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* Tim Waggoner does this a lot. ''[http://timwaggoner.com/pickingup.htm Picking Up Courtney]'' is a good short-form example.
* Again Alfred Kubin with his ''The Other Side''.
* [[Thomas Ligotti]].
* Stephen King's ''[[From a Buick 8]]'' has as the theme that there are some things you just can't understand and sometimes you'll never have answers. Also, the things that come out of the Buick's trunk make you feel like you're being raped. They're not even malicious, but their bizarre nature horrifies everyone who sees them.
* ''[[The Third Policeman]]'' is a nightmarishly surreal novel by Irish author Flann O'Brien (think James Stephens meets ''[[House of Leaves]]'' while being dictated to by [[Salvador Dali]]) and after reading you'll probably never look at a bicycle in the same way again...
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== Tabletop Roleplaying Games ==
* The game ''[[Normality]]'' embodies this trope, as it lacks a dice mechanic and largely consists of furious ranting at a world gone wrong.
* In ''[[Deadlands]]'', players may have to run through a session or two of this if they {{spoiler|die and come back harrowed}} or {{spoiler|travel through the Hunting Grounds}}.
* ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' has Arcadia, domains of The Others. The other [[Dark World|Dark Worlds]] in the ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' pale compared to it, simply due to its sheer variety and absurdity.
* ''[[Exalted]]'': The entirety of the Wyld. Mortals entering it will be unmade, but the Exalts might have a ''slight'' chance of surviving with both their mind and body intact.
* In ''[[JAGS Wonderland]]'', Chessboard One has elements of this. The Chessboards below it ''are'' this.
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* ''[[Survival Crisis Z]]'' looks like a standard [[Zombie Apocalypse]] at first, but the observant player will notice something... ''odd'' about these undead. (For instance, they [[Giggling Villain|giggle]] as they attack.) The farther you get, the crazier it gets.
* The ''[[Penumbra (video game series)|Penumbra]]'' series. Starts off as a fairly normal horror scenario of the PC going into a abandoned mine full of savage wildlife to find his father, then {{spoiler|you end up in the [[Elaborate Underground Base]] of a ancient conspiracy, dodging sentient virus infected zombies, and in the final game you're solving puzzles in a weird mash of all the locations in the first two games, while the PA system begs you not to finish the game so that she won't be alone, and dead supporting characters rant inanely at you.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Drakengard]]'' sneaks up on the player, beginning as a dark [[Medieval European Fantasy]] that just happens to have weird references to "the Watchers" sprinkled in. The standard ending mostly avoids the trope, but each unlockable alternate ending gets successively more unhinged, till by the fourth {{spoiler|there are ''giant demonic babies falling from the sky''}}.
* ''[[Catherine]]''. Never have the consequences of [[Your Cheating Heart|infidelity]] looked quite so nightmarish.
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== Web Original ==
* David Firth often uses this trope, particularly in ''[[
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/cassieiswatching CassieIsWatching] (an infamous ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' [[Fanfic|fan created]] [[ARG]].)
* ''[[Marble Hornets]]'', especially the videos made by [[The Dragon|totheark]]. A ''lot'' of [[The Slender Man Mythos|Slendy stories]], actually, especially once [[Sanity Slippage]] sets in. After all, it's a freaking terrifying [[Memetic Mutation|meme]]/artificial [[Urban Legend]] where the primary figure is... [[Humanoid Abomination|a tall guy]] [[Badass in a Nice Suit|in a suit]] [[The Blank|with no face]].
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