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If you're looking for something to darken your mood, look no further. These fics deal with the issues that you don't see on the show, like murder, corruption, or worse!

Order: Date Added

TFirst Fruits
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Horror
A young colt goes on a quest to rid Equestria of an old evil.
Gore
Violence
Luna
OC
the dobermans · 30k words · 14 1 · 360 views
TInsomnia
MLP: FiM
Dark
Horror
Tragedy
What is sleep but a shortness of death?
Profanity
Twilight
Pinkie
Perfectly Insane · 31k words · 47 5 · 725 views
TFilly Fantasy VI - The Return of Magic
MLP: FiM
Final Fantasy
Dark
Adventure
A Crossover of Final Fantasy VI with MLP:FiM.
Alt. Universe
Crossover
Spike
Gilda
Trixie
Other
Main 6
The Wyld Stallynz · 444k words · 303 26 · 8.9k views
TZombie of One
MLP: FiM
Horror
Sad
Slice of Life
Ruby is having a terrible nightmare. She can’t run from it, she can’t hide from it, but she can never, ever tell anyone about it. And it only gets worse when she falls asleep.
Berry Punch
Ruby Pinch
Impossible Numbers · 18k words · 28 2 · 685 views
EIteration
MLP: FiM
MLP Gen 5
Dark
Sci-Fi
Tragedy
Sunny fails to stop the crystals from devouring the land and learns a horrifying truth about her world.
Alt. Universe
Twilight
Sunny Starscout
6-D Pegasus · 3.4k words · 114 4 · 2k views
TNine Days Down
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
A routine rescue from a no-name villain goes wildly awry as Celestia is flung into the lethal, living nightmare that is Tartarus. No great problem for an immortal, but to Celestia's absolute horror, Twilight has followed her in.
Violence
Twilight
Celestia
JoeShogun · 143k words · 282 5 · 2.1k views
EImprisment
MLP: FiM
Horror
Slice of Life
Tragedy
Rainbow Dash has a beautiful life. Shame others don't see things that way.
Rainbow Dash
Petrichord · 6.8k words · 168 0 · 2.3k views
TCrystals & Chitin
MLP: FiM
Romance
Dark
Adventure
Carina's on a mission to secure the Crystal Heart... little does she know that King Sombra beat her to it.
OC
King Sombra
Changelings
Crystal Ponies
Nytus · 52k words · 48 0 · 1.3k views
EThe Turquoise Night of Neighshabur
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Horror
Time is Fluid in Dreams
Luna
Tantabus
Ruirik · 3.3k words · 24 0 · 438 views
TThe Hug
MLP: FiM
Dark
Tragedy
Twilight administers The Hug in the manner of the ancient alicorns.
Death
Violence
Twilight
Cozy Glow
the dobermans · 4k words · 77 12 · 1.8k views
EAwe
MLP: FiM
Dark
Drama
Nowadays, “awesome” is such an overused, weakened word. Not in the old days. Back then, it used to be the province of pegasi. Of the lords and ladies of the heavens. Of thunder and lightning. Of life and death. Of gods.
Chancellor Puddinghead
Commander Hurricane
Private Pansy
Impossible Numbers · 6k words · 43 2 · 889 views
TRainbow Dash's Awesome Nightmare Night Haunted House Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Adventure
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Thriller
A branching story with interactive gameplay, multiple endings, and more secrets than Pinkie's basement!
Gore
Violence
Second Person
Rainbow Dash
Trixie
Starlight Glimmer
TheDriderPony · 73k words · 42 2 · 1.4k views
TQueen of Assassins
MLP: FiM
Dark
Thriller
Chrysalis is unforgiving, cruel, and hard to like. How did she end up as the Queen of the Changelings? By doing what she's always done best: Surviving. Scheming. Fighting. Killing.
Violence
Death
Chrysalis
Changelings
Impossible Numbers · 23k words · 27 3 · 612 views
TTwilight Sparkle Talks To God
MLP: FiM
Comedy
Random
Princess Twilight Sparkle, trying to solve problems plaguing Equestria, asks the Almighty for help.
Violence
Gore
Death
Profanity
Main 6
Greenback · 2.9k words · 29 5 · 1.1k views
TWhere the Cold Comes From
MLP: FiM
Dark
Mystery
Sad
Heavy snowstorm catches a group of ponies away from civilization, and while the adults are doing their best to fend away the elements, the foals decide to figure it out on their own. But only one is destined to discover where the cold comes from.
OC
Motorbreath · 12k words · 15 0 · 392 views
EThe Rook Triumphant
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
Tragedy
After many long years, Cozy Glow is at last the most powerful pony in Equestria. The only problem is that she's the only pony in Equestria.
Cozy Glow
Halira · 2.1k words · 392 12 · 6.4k views
TThe Marchioness and the Urchin
MLP: FiM
Dark
A one-act play starring Spoiled Milk as the Marchioness, and our special guest as the Urchin...
Spoiled Rich
PresentPerfect · 2k words · 26 7 · 684 views
TBreathtaking Banality
MLP: FiM
Horror
Mystery
Sad
One day, Nurse Redheart is tasked with taking care of a patient that is far too normal – and that's the problem.
Death
OC
Other
Nurse Redheart
Snowheart
Sweetheart
Ice Star · 4.5k words · 84 8 · 2.6k views
TFreeze
MLP: FiM
Dark
Horror
Apple Bloom hears something in the snow.
Violence
Death
Apple Bloom
Scootaloo
BronyWriter · 4.3k words · 282 8 · 6.4k views
TAway
MLP: FiM
Dark
Slice of Life
A unicorn with an unwanted special magical talent isolates herself on a remote hillside, away from other ponies, for their sake and hers.
Death
Celestia
Luna
OC
The Cloptimist · 8.2k words · 110 4 · 1.6k views
TA Lily on the Windowsill
Equestria Girls
Romance
Drama
Tragedy
Derpy is that one relentlessly happy person who never lets anything get her down. That’s one of the things Sunset most loves her for. But lately, Derpy doesn’t look happy.
Suicide / Self Harm
Death
Derpy
Sunset Shimmer
Pascoite · 5.8k words · 34 12 · 1.1k views
TA Night in Tartarus
MLP: FiM
Dark
Drama
Dr. Minuette will treat any patient. Even Cozy Glow.
Minuette
Tirek
Royal Guard
Cozy Glow
SockPuppet · 5.9k words · 348 9 · 5.6k views
TScarlet
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Sad
Forced to leave her peaceful hometown and flee for her life alongside a mysterious orphan filly named Primrose, New Equestrian war-veteran Scarlet Frost will have to use every resource at her disposal just to stay alive.
Sex
Gore
Violence
Death
Profanity
Alt. Universe
OC
Other
Changelings
Skijarama · 196k words · 215 2 · 3.4k views
EIn the Moon’s Platinum Glow
MLP: FiM
Dark
Drama
Princess Platinum relishes her duty of raising the moon, but in all the centuries of her predecessors, it had never spoken to them. And now Luna wants to take that from her.
Luna
OC
Princess Platinum
Pascoite · 15k words · 47 3 · 1.2k views

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