d40 Nightmare Art

Sometimes you just need a big ol' table for spooky art pieces.

Nightmare Art (d40)

d40	Medium	Art
1	Glass Sculpture	A translucent glass spider. It moves when you’re not looking.
2	Written symphony	Slowly dissociates anyone who listens. Listen all the way through and lose your soul.
3	Optical Illusion	The shadow of a man that stalks you. Visible around corners, attached to nothing.
4	Clay sculpture	Bust depicting drowning person. Impossibly lifelike.
5	Embroidery	Dolls trapped in spider cocoons. Spiders made of silk farm them.
6	Doll	Uncannily lifelike. Feels like touching a miniature person, but it bends and twists in ways no person should when pressure is applied.
7	Doll	Perfectly realistic in nearly every way except the face, which is disturbingly cartoonish and out of place.
8	Rolled Scroll	“Trapped”: Picture of a horrified and warped man rolled up into claustrophobic space. Tucked into a crack in the wall.
9	Silver Globe	“Moon”: Replica of the spherical moon, as seen from earth. The entire unseen side contains a horrible face.
10	Steel Sculpture	An 8ft tall person made of knives.
11	Skeleton	“Circle”: Real skeleton warped into eating itself: feet bent backward and into ribcage.
12	Skeleton	“Needles”: Skeleton upon an altar. Thousands of small rusted steel needles piercing bones from within and piled below ribcage.
13	Tapestry	Vantablack tapestry. Cannot see the individual threads.
14	Embroidery	“Swallow”: A face of monstrous gape. Mouths where every orifice is.
15	Book	“Early Memory”: Fiction that subtly manipulates reader into having book implant early childhood memories.
16	Leather Sculpture	“Wind”: A pillar of hides, twisting around into a spire. Eyeless animal faces throughout.
17	Taxidermy	Perfect taxidermy of a man. Frighteningly still. The eyes are glass. Skin is real. Examination reveals he did this to himself.
18	Wind Chimes	Produces the sound of a woman crying to help when wind blows past. Faster the wind the louder it gets. Walking by triggers quiet cries.
19	Song	“Empty House”: Written in an intuitive but difficult to decipher method. Singing the song causes one to lose all their teeth.
20	Steel Sword	“Backbiter”: Super flexible sword whips around and stabs user upon a thrust.
21	Glass Dagger	“Trophy”: Various internal facets capture the pained images of everyone who’s touched the dagger.
22	Iron Sculpture	Four iron shapes. In the darkness appearing as people with their hands up in the air. Light shown on them and they noisily collapse.
23	Pit Trap	“Vore”: A soft dirt hole in the ground. A pit of acid at the bottom. Claw marks, blood stains, and loose fingernails embedded in the walls.
24	Mural	A person smeared across 60ft of wall. The silhouette can be clearly read from either end. They are screaming.
25	Preserved Vivisection	“Scattered”: A person vivisected into seven glass sagittal sides. The organs still beat with life. The eyes still move.
26	Skeleton	“Inseparable”: Fifteen skeletons sewn together with steel thread into an incoherent blob. Half the threads are loose, the other half pierce bone.
27	Food	A wonderful brothy umami gelatin, perfectly preserved in an airtight iron pot. Laced with perfectly hidden glass powder. Will shred the insides of eaters.
28	Mirror	“Age”: Warped mirror depicts subject aged and ugly.
29	Iron Mechanism	Wind up clockwork box. Produces an ungodly loud clap of thunder that will deafen anyone nearby at a random interval.
30	Glasses	Produces an effect of vertigo and the sense that one stands before an endlessly deep precipice.
31	Cloth Blindfold	Lidless eyes painted on the outside. Wrapping around one’s eyes makes one see ghosts everywhere. If they see you seeing them, they’ll try and possess your body.
32	Essay	A political treatise. Instructions create a self-fulfilling prophecy for governmental corruption.
33	Porcelain Mask	“Greed”: A grinning obese face with a bird-beak nose. When worn allows one to smell money. When removed steals the wearer’s face.
34	Obsidian Collar	An internally spiked collar. Like a Chinese finger trap. Wearer in constant pain, can’t sleep.
35	Spell Scroll	Casting causes chronic body dysmorphia and desire for self-mutilation.
36	Fancy High Heel	A comfortable-looking shoe. A hidden pressure-activated blade in the heel stabs a bone stiletto through the foot. The blade branches out in a tree pattern, preventing it from being removed.
37	Candle	A candle in the shape of a smiling woman. Wicks on the head and both hands. When it burns down the expression contorts to one of total agony as she melts.
38	Poem	A strange collection of consonants in a offbeat rhyming scheme. Reading it out loud gives those just out of distance the impression that you’re saying something horrible about them.
39	Carpet	A white carpet of intricate geometric patterns. Touching it with bare skin gives the impression of newborns’ hair.
40	Metal Sphere	“Nightmare Box”: Unlocking puzzle traps user in a nightmare dimension indefinitely. Can only be opened from the outside.