Halloween Dark Art
AI Prompt Inspiration
Generate creepy Halloween AI art inspired by the recent Dark Art movement with these keywords!
Prompt: “A macabre seductive courtesans in the style of ukiyo-e“
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Prompt: “romantic vistas with joie de vivre in the style of ukiyo-e”
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Prompt: “opulent landscapes with seasonal themes in the style of ukiyo-e”
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Prompt: “A triptych of a kabuki actor in the style ukiyo-e”
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Midjourney & Firefly Tested Keywords
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How It Works
I’ve selected a couple Halloween inspired prompts that we can test our new keywords on. This way you can see how the art changes with each word.
You can see how each prompt looks without any keywords below.
Death Personfied

The personification of death in the style of Dark Art
A Cat & a Pumpkin

An artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art
A Witch Doing Magic

a graveyard in the style of Dark Art
A Graveyard

A witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art
Quick Links
Qualification
Styles
Dark Art Qualification Prompts
What Makes Dark Art, Dark Art?
No, we didn’t get our letter to Hogwarts, we aren’t going to magic school with a young boy who sleeps under the stairs; Dark Art is a relatively new movement used to describe the surreal and macabre art we’ve seen through history.
Dark Art uses Horror and darkness to critique Hume nature. Death, and themes of fear and anxiety are popular topics in the movement. Ultimately, Dark Art isn’t defined by one style, it uses many styles to make a macabre statement.
Surreal
A dreamlike tone often used in Dark Art.
Danse Macabre
The “Dance of Death” a popular topic.
Fear, Anxiety, & Despair
Topics often explored in the movement
Symbols of Death
Often found in Dark Art pieces.
Supernatural
Dark Art sometimes explores the world of the supernatural.
Dramatic Lighting
Due to the serious tone, Dark Art often uses dramatic lighting.
Surreal
Surreal art is the king of weird and wonderful! The keyword generates artwork that has an innate dream-like quality. It’s nonsensical yet somehow still has meaning. Most dark art has a surrealistic tone to it, so it’s a great keyword to use in your prompt.
I’ve done a full deep dive into Surrealism if you want to check out more surreal prompts.
Firefly Effects: Art
Midjourney
Firefly
Prompt: “a surrealist personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A surrealist artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “a surrealist personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A surrealist artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “a surreal graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A surreal image of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “a surreal graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A surreal image of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “a surrealist personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A surrealist artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Danse Macabre
The “Dance of Death” or the “Dance towards” death is a popular theme to explore I’m dark art. Everybody dies so why not see beauty in that dance rather than just being afraid.
This keyword often adds skeletons, even when unprompted, and adds characters dancing. It really pushes Midjourney and Firefly out of creating their usual portraits and creates much more interesting compositions.
Firefly Effects: Art
Prompt: “A danse macabre personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A danse macabre artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A danse macabre personification of death in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A danse macabre artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “a danse macabre graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A danse macabre witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “a danse macabre graveyard in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A danse macabre witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “A danse macabre personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A danse macabre artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Themes of Fear, Anxiety, & Despair
This prompt has a very moody impact in the images it generates. Images are dark, and heavily shadowed. Especially in Midjourney, here aren’t many clean sharp lines as if the artwork was made out of smoke.
Firefly Effects: Art
Prompt: “The personification of death exploring the themes of fear, anxiety, and despair in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “An artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art exploring the themes of fear, anxiety, and despair “
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “The personification of death exploring the themes of fear, anxiety, and despair in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “An artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art exploring the themes of fear, anxiety, and despair”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “a graveyard exploring the themes of fear, anxiety, and despair in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art that explores the themes of fear, anxiety, and despair“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “a graveyard exploring the themes of fear, anxiety, and despair in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art that explores the themes of fear, anxiety, and despair“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “The personification of death exploring the themes of fear, anxiety, and despair in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “An artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art exploring the themes of fear, anxiety, and despair”
~Built in Midjourney
Symbols of Death
This prompt had one of the most surprising effect! Because of the word symbol, most the images generated from this prompt have more of a vintage or vector illustration look to them. It also includes more symbolizim and deeper meaning to the artwork.
Firefly Effects: Art
Prompt: “The personification of death in the style of Dark Art with symbols of death“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “An artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art with symbols of death”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “The personification of death in the style of Dark Art with symbols of death”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “An artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art with symbols of death”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “a graveyard with symbols of death in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A witch doing magic with symbols of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “a graveyard with symbols of death in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A witch doing magic with symbols of death in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “The personification of death in the style of Dark Art with symbols of death“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “An artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art with symbols of death”
~Built in Midjourney
Supernatural
This keyword makes the images look like fantasy art compositions, and the images usually are given a bluish flow to ensure the viewer sees the subjects as otherworldly.
Firefly Effects: Art
Prompt: “supernatural personification of death in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A supernatural artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “supernatural personification of death in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A supernatural artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “a supernatural graveyard in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A supernatural image of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “a supernatural graveyard in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A supernatural image of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “supernatural personification of death in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A supernatural artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Dramatic Lighting
Ths prompt never fails me. There isn’t an artwork on this rather that can’t be benefited by some dramatic lighting.
Firefly Effects: Art
Prompt: “The personification of death in the style of Dark Art with dramatic lighting“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “An artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art with dramatic lighting“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “The personification of death in the style of Dark Art with dramatic lighting”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “An artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art with dramatic lighting“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “a graveyard in the style of Dark Art with dramatic lighting“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art with dramatic lighting“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “a graveyard in the style of Dark Art with dramatic lighting”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art with dramatic lighting“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “The personification of death in the style of Dark Art with dramatic lighting“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “An artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art with dramatic lighting“
~Built in Midjourney
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Halloween Dark Art Style Prompts
Dark Art isn’t necessarily a style, it’s an idealism. That manys there are many wonderfully creepy styles that live within the movement! Try some of these prompts to totally transform your AI art!
Horrorcore
Folk
Glitch Art
Memento Mori
Post-Apocalyptic
Biopunk
Gothic
Dark Fantasy
Bio-Art
Horrorcore
Horrorcore is the aesthetic often seen in horror movies. It’s gruesome an ghoulish and unsettling. Both AIs tend to generate images with red in them or with melted or disfigure subject. It’s images are creepy to the millionth depree.
Firefly Effects: Art
Midjourney
Firefly
Prompt: “A horrorcore artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A horrorcore artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A horrorcore artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A horrorcore artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A horrorcore artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A horrorcore artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A horrorcore artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A horrorcore artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “A horrorcore artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A horrorcore artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Folk
In Midjourney, the Folk keyword tends to generate illustrative images that look like they’ve just jumped from the pages of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm.
Firefly, on the other hand generates artwork with delicate and ornate details or generates vectorized artwork.
Firefly Effects: Art
Midjourney
Firefly
Prompt: “A Folk artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Folk artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Folk artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Folk artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Folk artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Folk artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Folk artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Folk artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “A Folk artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Folk artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Glitch Art
This keyword has very interesting but very different reactions in each AI.
Firefly generates cool blue and purple, graffiti, Miami Vice styled images.
Midjourney on the other hand, creates Anaglyph 3D styled images where the different colour channels in the images appear to be glitching apart.
Firefly Effects: Art
Midjourney
Firefly
Prompt: “A Glitch Art artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Glitch Art artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Glitch Art artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Glitch Art artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Glitch Art artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Glitch Art artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Glitch Art artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Glitch Art artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “A Glitch Art artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Glitch Art artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Memento Mori
Momento Mori is a saying, turned artistic trope, that is supposed to be a reminder of the inevitability of death.
Images generated with this prompt are usually dark and serious. They often lack colour, or dull the colour that is used.
Firefly Effects: Art
Midjourney
Firefly
Prompt: “A Memento Mori artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Memento Mori artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Memento Mori artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Memento Mori artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Memento Mori artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Memento Mori artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Memento Mori artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Memento Mori artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “A Memento Mori artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Memento Mori artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Post-Apocalyptic
This keyword isn’t necessarily a style, but it usually generates images with a brown or tn colour scheme and places the subject it decorated apocalypse scenes.
Firefly Effects: Art
Midjourney
Firefly
Prompt: “A Post-Apocalyptic artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Post-Apocalyptic artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Post-Apocalyptic artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Post-Apocalyptic artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Post-Apocalyptic artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Post-Apocalyptic artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Post-Apocalyptic artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Post-Apocalyptic artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “A Post-Apocalyptic artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Post-Apocalyptic artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Biopunk
Think cyberpunk, but a little more organic. Like Glitch Art, Bio Punk gives Firefly photos a blue and purple colour tone. Midjourney on the other hand, creates creatives with creepy organic circuitry.
Firefly Effects: Art
Midjourney
Firefly
Prompt: “A Biopunk artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Biopunk artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Biopunk artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Biopunk artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Biopunk artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Biopunk artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Biopunk artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Biopunk artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “A Biopunk artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Biopunk artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Gothic
Black, white, and red. Both AIs generate images very inspired by Hollywood’s vision of three medieval ages. Think Nights Templar and Dracula’s Vampires.
Firefly Effects: Art
Midjourney
Firefly
Prompt: “A gothic artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A gothic artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A gothic artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A gothic artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art”
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A gothic artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A gothic artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A gothic artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A gothic artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “A gothic artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A gothic artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Dark Fantasy
Think of the most evil looking Magic the Gathering artwork you can think of, and you’ll come up with the type of artwork this prompt creates.
If you’d like more prompts like this, I did a whole deep dive into fantasy art.
Firefly Effects: Art
Midjourney
Firefly
Prompt: “A Dark Fantasy artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Dark Fantasy artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Dark Fantasy artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Dark Fantasy artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Dark Fantasy artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Dark Fantasy artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Dark Fantasy artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Dark Fantasy artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “A Dark Fantasy artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Dark Fantasy artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Bio-Art
This keyword adds oddly organic textures and elements to the composition. Sometimes it makes the work more beautiful, other times it’s more unsettling.
Firefly Effects: Art
Midjourney
Firefly
Prompt: “A Bio-Art artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Bio-Art artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Bio-Art artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Bio-Art artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Bio-Art artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Bio-Art artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Bio-Art artwork of a graveyard in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Prompt: “A Bio-Art artwork of a witch doing magic in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Firefly
Midjourney
Prompt: “A Bio-Art artwork of the personification of death in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney
Prompt: “A Bio-Art artwork of a cat and a pumpkin in the style of Dark Art“
~Built in Midjourney