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For the grim, dark or otherwise creepy or unsettling fics that deal with whatever invokes those feelings. This also, of course, includes horror. What little we have of it on this site.

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TEquestria Threadfall
MLP: FiM
Adventure
A new red star appears in the sky. It streaks across with unnatural swiftness. With it comes a new threat, raining down from the day sky in great strands of death that eats all organic matter it can find, leaving the terrain scarred and ponies dead.
Violence
Spike
Luna
Main 6
Starlight Glimmer
Dragons
David Silver · 44k words · 65 11 · 1.2k views
EThe Price of Happily Ever After
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Rarity is presented with an opportunity so few will ever get; she gets to decide what her legacy will be.
Rarity
OC
MrNumbers · 20k words · 251 13 · 3.3k views
TNecromancy For Foals
MLP: FiM
Romance
Dark
Adventure
Far from Canterlot and forced to work in gem mines for cruel Diamond Dogs, a young unicorn named Bone Marrow's pursuit of his cutiemark reveals a unique talent: raising the dead.
Gore
Alt. Universe
Celestia
OC
Other
Queen Sanguine Dreams · 112k words · 2,720 36 · 26k views
TYellow Immortality
MLP: FiM
Horror
Random
It's not that her fur color means Fluttershy CAN'T die. It's more that the network isn't going to LET her.
Crossover
Fluttershy
Other
Estee · 6.2k words · 358 11 · 6.2k views
TBackground Pony
MLP: FiM
Random
Sad
Slice of Life
"My name's Lyra Heartstrings, but you won't remember anything. Listen to my symphony, for it
Lyra
Main 6
shortskirtsandexplosions · 432k words · 6,807 242 · 117k views
TTime of Death
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
Tragedy
After an evil necromancer curses some of the mane six's closest friends, they're forced to reconcile to the fact that there might not be a cure. What does a pony do who only has a year to live?
Main 6
Starscribe · 20k words · 132 12 · 2k views
TBest Friends
MLP: FiM
Dark
Comedy
Rarity needs help hiding a body
Main 6
BronyWriter · 9k words · 877 32 · 12k views
TThe Conversion Bureau: Setting Things Right
MLP: FiM
Adventure
When a portal to another world appears outside Canterlot, the ponies' initial reaction is of enthusiasm, hoping to greet these strange aliens with open hooves. Too bad this world was already visited by another Equestria...
Gore
Human
Alt. Universe
Twilight
Celestia
OC
kildeez · 197k words · 1,639 187 · 25k views
TThis War of Ours
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
Slice of Life
War has finally reached Ponyville's borders. The Crusaders, stranded and separated from their families, have holed up in Golden Oak Library, hoping to ride it out. But how will they survive, with winter coming and supplies dwindling every day?
Gore
Scootaloo
CMCs
Swan Song · 15k words · 163 11 · 2.6k views
TThe Torch be Ours
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
Rainbow Dash has spent nearly five years away from Ponyville, fighting and dying alongside so many other Equestrians, when a piece of home unexpectedly appears at her hooves.
Alt. Universe
Rainbow Dash
Scootaloo
The 24th Pegasus · 15k words · 353 18 · 4.7k views
TTo Try For the Sun
MLP: FiM
Drama
Slice of Life
Facing starvation in an endless winter, the young filly Celestia attempts to raise the sun... and finds a wonder that her cynical mind had never conceived.
Celestia
Luna
Rune Soldier Dan · 5k words · 1,798 19 · 18k views
TGoodbye, Crusaders
MLP: FiM
Sad
Tragedy
Tirek gave Twilight a choice: give up her magic, or lose her friends. Twilight chose the latter.
Alt. Universe
Twilight
Apple Bloom
Scootaloo
Sweetie Belle
CMCs
One Harem Please · 2.7k words · 670 78 · 9.2k views
TThe Motion of the Stars
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Sad
Once upon a time, Equestria burned in the fires of war. Now it falls to two sisters to reclaim what they can.
Gore
Rarity
Sweetie Belle
Carabas · 14k words · 326 7 · 5.3k views
TThe Mailmare
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
The Equestrian Postal Carrier's Hoofbook lists three circumstances under which mail service may be suspended. The end of the world is not one of them.
Crossover
Derpy
OC
Bad Horse · 12k words · 358 6 · 4.2k views
TFeed Them
MLP: FiM
Dark
Tragedy
Spike takes care of Twilight the best he can. She's sick, but he knows she'll get better and everything will get back to normal. But first, he needs to feed her.
Gore
Alt. Universe
Twilight
Rainbow Dash
Spike
RainbowBob · 4.5k words · 972 66 · 18k views
TDiary One Hundred and Thirty Eight
MLP: FiM
Romance
Sad
Slice of Life
I know I'm not really her. Celestia is dead and gone. But I feel like I'm her, even though I'm not even a real pony. Twilight needs Celestia, so I will do my best to be Celestia. - An Equestria's Twilight Side Story -
Twilight
Celestia
Sapidus3 · 6.1k words · 90 3 · 1.5k views
THard Reset
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Twilight gives her life to stop a changeling invasion. Repeatedly.
Twilight
Spike
Chrysalis
Eakin · 36k words · 8,208 134 · 112k views
TMente Materia
MLP: FiM
XCOM
Dark
Sci-Fi
Twilight’s trip to Earth and friendship with the humans brings new friends and enemies to her peaceful world. With the specter of war hanging over them, Equestria will have to form an alliance like no other to fight the menace from the void.
Gore
Crossover
Human
Twilight
Luna
Discord
Shining Armor
Main 6
Arad · 292k words · 3,222 117 · 35k views
EOf Mirrors and Madness
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
Princess Celestia gazes into Sombra's doorway. What she finds is simply the truth.
Celestia
Violetta Strings · 3.4k words · 48 4 · 1.6k views
TBlink
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Twilight does some research into her tried and true teleportation spell.
Twilight
Spike
zaponator · 3.9k words · 1,738 48 · 20k views
TSympathy For The Devil
MLP: FiM
Tragedy
While locked away in Tartarus, Lord Tirek finds that his ultimate desire has been fulfilled.
Gore
Tirek
Bad_Seed_72 · 3k words · 317 8 · 5k views
TThe Heart of an Author
MLP: FiM
Romance
Dark
Mystery
Mystery. Love. Magic. Murder. Truth. These are all important elements in the murder mystery Fluttershy has written, and is now asking Twilight to read. But she struggles to solve the mystery in which it turns out she's the protagonist.
Gore
Violence
Death
Crossover
Fluttershy
Twilight
Main 6
Oroboro · 138k words · 391 20 · 5.6k views
TThe Better Angel
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
The death of one Princess, the destruction of another.
Gore
Celestia
Luna
ArguingPizza · 9.7k words · 313 16 · 6.9k views
TAfter the Fall
MLP: FiM
Romance
Sad
Slice of Life
Everyone is dead. She doesn't know who is responsible, just that somepony activated the ultimate weapon. Only four ponies survived and now try to find meaning in the great wasteland. Celestia will just be happy if she can find a way to heal Twilight.
Twilight
Celestia
Luna
Cadance
Sapidus3 · 23k words · 352 10 · 5.4k views

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