Webcomic / Nocturne (Webtoon)

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Nocturne is a webcomic that was published on WEBTOON Original in April of 2023. It had an earlier version on WEBTOON Canvas that begin in 2017, before being rebooted.Written and illustrated by Fyyaa123, it's a Horror anthology comprised of many standalone short stories.

You can read it here.

This Webcomic provides examples of:

• Advertised Extra: The woman with an eye for a mouth on the cover has not appeared in any of the stories so far.
• Ambiguous Situation: Common in many of the short stories. Things may often happen without clear explanation. And many of the short stories have unclear endings or unresolved questions.
• Author Avatar: The woman on the cover sometimes speaks for the author when giving announcements.
• Body Horror: While not every story in the series relies on it, Nocturne still has this in spades.
• Bookends: The ending to "Meat Beckoning Room" has the protagonists returned to the room after their death with no memory of how they got there.
• Deliberately Monochrome: Unlike most webcomics on the Webtoon platform, which are in color, Nocturne is entirely in black & white. Presumably to set the mood for the comic.
• Call-Back: At the start of "Keratin", the two protagonists make vague references to the events of "Glass Box".
• Dragged Off to Hell: In the "Dead Grass" short story, after stepping on the titular grass a man is dragged down into the earth by a bunch of hands that erupt from the ground.
• Early-Bird Cameo: The horned woman from "Keratin" briefly appears in a painting at the museum in "Glass Box".
• Eye Scream: In "Keratin", we see a woman with (bloody) horns growing out of her eye sockets. The story ends with the male protagonist also growing a giant horn out of his eyes and forehead.
• Forced Transformation: In the aptly named "Worm!", Yara has the power to turn people and objects into worms. She can go so far as to selectively turn parts of them into worms, such as their bones or their neck. At the end of the story she destroys the planet by turning it into a giant worm.
• Force Feeding: The protagonist of "Worm!" is forced to eat a plate full of earthworms, because she is afraid that Yara would turn her into a worm if she were to refuse.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: A (possibly) non-temporal variant of this occurs in "Meat Beckoning Room". At the end of the story the room absorbs the dead bodies of the protagonists, as well as the blood and meat filling the place. It then spits out a cocoon containing the protagonists who emerge with no memory of what just ocurred.
• Locked in a Room: The premise of "Meat Beckoning Room" has a man and woman trapped in the titular room.
• Mirror Scare: Happens in multiple stories, such as "Reflection".
• Mutagenic Food: Eating the meat that is created by the room in the "Meat Beckoning Room" transforms one into a mutilated corpse.
• Negative Continuity: Mostly played straight. A lot of the stories in the Anthology are unconnected. A few even end with apocalyptic scenarios that are absent in the next short. However, a few of the stories subvert this as they are sequels or make references to other shorts in the series.
• Planet Destroyer: The Earth is destroyed at the end of "Worm!" because Yara turned it into a giant worm.
• Pupating Peril: An inversion of sorts, where the people inside the cocoon are in peril, occurs at the end of "Meat Beckoning Room" to the protagonists who are inside the flesh cocoon.
• Shark-Toothed Humanoid: Yara in the "Worm!" story has this in a few panels.
• Stylistic Suck: Done in "Break Room" with the 3D Model which has a completely different art style to the rest of the comic.
• Viral Transformation: In "Keratin", after an apparent nightmare where he is kissed on the forehead by a mysterious woman with horns growing from her eyes, the protagonist grows a (singular) horn through his forehead and eyes. He kisses his girlfriend's forehead at the end of the story, leaving the implication that she will share his fate.