It's that special time of year where we revel all things dark and creepy. To celebrate, we've collected 40 Photoshop techniques and effects to help you add a splash of macabre to your work. From twisted horror faces to ghosts, damned souls and zombies, you'll find it all here.

1. Mongrel Horror Face

2. Dark Eyes

3. 'The Ring' Corpse Blue Effect

4. Cannibal Clown

5. Damned Soul

6. Broken Earth Face

7. Entombed in Stone

8. Trapped Spirit

9. Horriffic Burns

10. Beautiful Wraith

11. Burning Flesh Effect

12. Mysterious Creature

13. Dead Stare

14. Succubus Transform

15. Blood-drenched Wall

16. Mutated Human

17. Death Omen

18. Raging Zombie Girl

19. Crumbling Face

20. Infected Effect

21. Decaying Beauty

22. CCTV Ghost Capture

23. Demon Girl

24. Sunken Face

39. Shattered Skin

26. Crawling Zombie

27. Psycho Splatters

28. Blood Trails

29. Phrixos and Helle

30. Nightmare Villain

31. Skeletal Thinker

32. Rotting Flesh Effect

33. Dark Chompers

34. Vampiric Transform

35. Vampiric Makeup

36. Dark Witch Portraits

37. Skeletal Cyborg

38. Alien Head

39. Hell Transform

40. Tormented Eyes

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