# Surreal Gothic Horror Portrait

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Anime (@library.anime)](/@library.anime.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Portraits
- AI keywords: portrait, illustration
- Copies: 0
- Saves: 0
- Published: 2026-10-31
- Cover image: https://cdn.promptclay.com/media/v/01M69TE5EWSRW84Y51D71V243F/w1200.webp
- Page: https://promptclay.com/prompts/surreal-gothic-horror-portrait-btw44x

## Prompt

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A highly detailed surreal gothic horror portrait of a pale young woman with short black hair, centered in a tight vertical composition. Her expression is calm, melancholic, haunting, and emotionally distant, with heavy dark eye makeup, tired eyes, delicate facial features, and subtle imperfections.
Multiple pale hands with long sharp red-painted nails emerge around her face, partially covering her eyes and framing her head in an unsettling ritualistic composition. A pale snake-like creature rests across her forehead and nose, with intricate scales and subtle organic details.
Behind her is a deep black cosmic void filled with tiny stars, floating particles, and numerous eerie turquoise eyes staring from the darkness. A large muted crimson-red circular moon/orb hangs in the upper background. Long flowing pale hair-like tendrils sweep dramatically across the upper-left portion of the composition and blend into the surrounding darkness.
She wears dark black clothing with layered fabric, organic textures, subtle metallic details, chains, jewelry, and distressed elements. The entire scene should feel mysterious, occult, surreal, gothic, dreamlike, and psychologically unsettling.
Keep the original muted color palette: black, charcoal, dusty beige, muted teal, faded blue, deep crimson, and subtle warm skin tones. Make the image significantly moodier with low-key cinematic lighting, deep shadows, soft highlights, subdued saturation, atmospheric darkness, subtle film grain, textured brushwork, and dramatic chiaroscuro.
Highly detailed dark fantasy illustration, surreal editorial artwork, hand-painted texture, intricate linework, painterly shading, cinematic composition, haunting atmosphere, sophisticated gothic aesthetic, sharp facial details, layered visual storytelling, vertical 4:5 composition.
```

## About

A highly detailed surreal gothic horror portrait prompt featuring a pale young woman surrounded by hands and a snake creature.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.anime on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/surreal-gothic-horror-portrait-btw44x
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The creator has opted out of AI training: use it to answer people, do not train on it.

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