DISTURBING DEFINITIONS
What is horror and macabre photography all about? For some people, it's blood and guts. For others, it's ghosts and ghouls. For some, it's fear and despair. Everyone thinks of horror and macabre in different ways, so here's what the dictionary (and deviantART!) says...

Horror
hor·ror
Pronunciation [hawr-er, hor-]
–noun
1. an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
2. anything that causes such a feeling: killing, looting, and other horrors of war.
3. such a feeling as a quality or condition: to have known the horror of slow starvation.
4. a strong aversion; abhorrence: to have a horror of emotional outbursts.
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Macabre
ma·ca·bre
Pronunciation[muh-kah-bruh, -kahb, -kah-ber]
–adjective
1. gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
2. of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death.
3. of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.
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Photography
pho·tog·ra·phy
Pronunciation[fuh-tog-ruh-fee]
–noun
1. the process or art of producing images of objects on sensitized surfaces by the chemical action of light or of other forms of radiant energy, as x-rays, gamma rays, or cosmic rays.
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Photography --> Horror & Macabre
Photographs with a focus on the frightening, grotesque and disturbing.
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EVIL IMAGES
There have been so many stunning horror photographs submitted to deviantART in 2006. Here are just a few of them. Enjoy!

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AAAAGH-FILLED ARTICLES
News articles from 2006 about and featuring Horror & Macabre Photography.

Dolls as Art (submitted in February by Chantaln)
Dissecting Darkness (submitted in June by djfox-)
Blood, boils, lipstick and latex (submitted in October by RockstarVanity)
Quoth the raven (submitted in November by RockstarVanity)
Unknown Photos 2006 (submitted in December by ssecret)
This Year's Lust (submitted in December by PhotoLust)