the.com/haunted themes
web design's ghost story: a font, a hover state, and unexplained dread.
means a genre of unsettling, glitch-laden website templates and design aesthetics built to feel subtly wrong, broken, or watched.
from grew out of early-2000s creepypasta culture and glitch art, where webmasters intentionally left CSS half-broken, cursors mistracking, and pages that seemed to load content meant for someone else.
core trickdeliberately mistimed animations trigger unease, not jump scares
favorite fontold serif faces evoke forgotten geocities pages
sound designsilence used more than actual audio cues
for instance
the backrooms wiki — fan-built liminal space lore site, exploded on reddit 2019
petscop — fake game website tied to a haunted youtube series, 2017