Famous Spooks
Characters
Scary or Tragic?
Terror-bly Explained
Cursed Cords
100

The Godfather of gothic grief

Edgar Allen Poe

100

Dalton

Insidious

100

Created and abandoned by the maker

Frankenstein's Monster

100

The mom does arts and crafts about trauma, the son is allergic to guilt, and grandma is satanic.

Hereditary

100

Spooky scary skeleton

Send shivers down your spine

200

The demon barber of Fleet Street

Sweeny Todd
200

Smoke

Sinners

200

Cursed for “stealing a man”

Medusa

200

Family plays a child's game with a witch who hates moms.

The Conjuring

200

There's a possibility, there's a possibility

All that I have was all I'm gon' get

300

Unidentified serial killer from the 1800s

Jack the Ripper

300

Peter Graham

Hereditary

300

A modern jester figure corrupted by suffering

The Joker

300

There’s a monstrous woman in the basement, and all she wants is to be a mom 

The Barbarian

300

Time cast a spell on you, But you won't forget me

I know I could have loved you, But you would not let me

400

Exudes a distinct creepy-gothic style in production

Time Burton

400

Sally Owens

Practical Magic

400

Tragic scientist overtaken by his darker side

Jekyll and Hyde

400

It’s a gothic rom-dram with bonus adultery, ghosts, and interior design issues.

Crimson Peak

400

What do you want from me? Why don't you run from me? What are you wondering? What do you know?

Why aren't you scared of me? Why do you care for me? When we all fall asleep, where do we go? 

500

Wrote often about death, ghosts, and eternity 

Emily Dickinson

500

The Grabber

Black Phone
500

Cursed to roam the sea, a symbol of imprisonment to eternity 

The Flying Dutchman

500

Male insecurity taken to the extreme and results in the realest highstake game of Tamagochi

Don't Worry Darling

500

Pass me that lovely little gun, My dear, my darling one

The cleaners are coming, one by one, You don't even wanna let them start (O Children)