Memes are generally funny because they make sense — perhaps they're inside jokes referencing a piece of pop culture, or just a funny bit of relatable humor that almost anyone could enjoy. Other times, memes are incomprehensible image macros blasting a flood of unconnected information, a meshing of words and images so detached from rational thought that one concludes they are windows into the unknown, like a Lovecraftian horror designed to turn their viewers towards madness.

This is a celebration of the latter.

Over in /r/surrealmemes, the birthplace of some classic internet characters like Meme Man (aka the Stonks guy), memers have been pushing into new frontiers of surreality, one-upping each other with horrors that are perhaps best left unseen. Nevertheless, here, we've culled two dozen memes to offer a mere glimpse at the madness of memers' minds. Read on, if you dare — it is spooky season after all, and perhaps there is nothing scarier than that which we cannot comprehend.