Creepy Fashion Editorials | Pictures

Nowhere is fashion's long-running love affair with the dark side better illustrated than in the pages of glossy magazines. In fact, it seems that certain photographers' sole purpose — we're talking about you, Craig McDean, Tim Walker, Steven Klein, Yelena Yemchuk, Mert & Marcus, and Steven Meisel — is to create images that go beyond the subtly subversive and into territory that is downright macabre. From chilling cemetery scenes to nightmare-inducing institutional interactions, these are some of the spookiest fashion editorials around.

Warning: some of the following images are quite graphic, and most are not safe for work.