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Blood, Ghosts, and Zombies: A Halloween Cosplay Gallery

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Cosplayers and photographers know how to make costumes look unsettling.

Halloween is the perfect holiday for cosplayers. It’s the one day out of the year when it’s socially acceptable to walk around covered in fake blood and wear something strange. Photo editors amp it up with spooky backgrounds, shadows, and some popping eyeballs. In honor of the holiday, here are several cosplayers and photographers who make horror an art.

We begin with…

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American McGee’s Alice

Soulfire Photography loves horror cosplay photography. Teaming up with Keren Lin Creations, the two present a very creepy Alice from American McGee’s Alice.

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Higurashi

Traumatic Candy‘s rendition of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni‘s Rena Ryuugu shows what made the young girl so scary. Photo by D Minor Photography.

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Pyramid Head

It wouldn’t be a horror cosplay gallery without one Pyramid Head, so here’s WarriorMisanthrope and BloodSpiderX as two! Photo by Matthew Chan.

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Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas is appropriate for both Halloween and Christmas. Here’s Maho-Urei as Sally. Photo by Ningen Sankyaku.

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Fatal Frame 4

Donttouchmymilk Cosplay scares us quite a bit as Tomoko Hinuma from Fatal Frame 4. Photo by Soulfire Photography.

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Fatal Frame 2

And Donttouchmymilk Cosplay also cosplayed Fatal Frame 2‘s Sae Kurosawa. Photo by Soulfire Photography.

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Silent Hill Nurses

The nurses of the Silent Hill series show up again and again because we love them so much. Matthew Chan has a great photo of five nurses, who are RagemoreRoberts, thepancakeblob, snarkshot, T-ucker, and Kittehchan.

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Sachiko

Corpse Party is one of those cute Japanese horror games that gets creepy as soon as a group of students think about doing a ritual called Sachiko Ever After. Turns out you should really just leave Sachiko alone. DarkInquisitor666 is quite the menacing Sachiko. Photo by La-Clover.

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Yuki Kanno

La-Clover also photographed and edited a picture of a Yuki Kanno cosplayer from Corpse Party.

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Dead Space

If a creepy monster gets too close, you can always just stomp on it. Soulfire Photography presents a picture of an Isaac Clark cosplayer named Adam.

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9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors

Can you reach the escape at the ninth door? Snake, Junpei, and Clover are going to try to make it that far. Clover is SerikaArenai, Snake is Swallowcut, Junpei is Salehthesage, and the photo is by Angiechuu.

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Kingdom Hearts

Not all of the cosplays have to be scary, though. Sora’s Halloweentown outfit from Kingdom Hearts is pretty adorable. Cosplaying as Sora is Evil-Uke-Sora with the photo by Andy-K.

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Michonne

Cassian Cosplay is ready to survive an onslaught of walkers as Michonne from The Walking Dead. Photo by Starrfall Photography.

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The Walkers

Three walkers plagued the streets of Melbourne last year as walkers from The Walking Dead. MaxLy snapped a picture before presumingly being eaten by SqueakyStairs, SnickyRev, and their friend Josh.

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Cybil Bennett

You don’t want to get caught in Silent Hill. Donttouchmymilk Cosplay carefully investigates as Cybil Bennett. Photo by Soulfire Photography.

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Silent Hill

Cybil Bennett sends you off to have a fun Halloween! Once again, Donttouchmymilk Cosplay is Cybil, and the photo is by Soulfire Photography.


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